Michael R Beschloss
Author
Language
English
Description
Presidential historian Beschloss has brought us a saga about crucial times in America's history when a courageous president dramatically changed the future of the United States. Beschloss brings to life these flawed, complex men--and their wives, families, friends and foes, in an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of presidents coping with the supreme dilemmas of their lives. As he shows, none of these presidents was eager to incur ridicule, vilification...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ten years in the making, Presidents of War is a fresh, intimate, irresistibly readable narrative of how a procession of Chief Executives took the nation into major conflicts, mobilized Americans for victory and seized greater power for themselves. Beschloss's findings in original letters, diaries, and declassified documents, and his interviews with surviving participants in the drama, allow him to bring us into the room and into the minds of these...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 498 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a story that you did not read in the newspapers. At the Highest Levels reveals a hitherto secret dimension of the most momentous event of our time: the end of the Cold War. Beschloss and Talbott show us the vital transactions that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev made and concealed from the world: Bush's pledge not to press Gorbachev for Baltic independence, the manipulations for German unification, how the Soviet Union joined the Gulf War...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 368 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 8 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President...
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This 3-part series examines three United States presidents and important decisions that they made: Lyndon Johnson and civil rights legislation, Ronald Reagan and Star Wars, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Lend-Lease plan of arming Britain prior to the U.S. entry into World War II.
Publisher
McNeil/Lehrer Productions
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col., b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary portrait of Betty Ford, one of the most influential modern first ladies, drawn from an interview by presidential historian Michael Beschloss. Additional interviews with the Ford family, friends and historians and photos, home movies, film from the White House years and new material shot at the Betty Ford Center and around her home in Rancho Mirage, California. Highlights include her support of the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights...
