Evan Thomas
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Language
English
Description
What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Thomas tackles this question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. He reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve détente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics taint his reputation.
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Language
English
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Description
Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo Kurita, the Japanese battleship commander charged with making what was, in essence, a suicidal fleet attack against the American invasion of the Philippines;...
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Language
English
Description
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Jones is a character for the ages. John Adams called him the "most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American...
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English
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Description
"Robert Kennedy has been viewed as hero and villian. Evan Thomas's achievement is to realize RFK as a human being, to bring to life an extraordinarily complex man who was at once kind and cruel, devious and honest, fearful and brave." "Thomas had unusual access to his subject's life. He is the first biographer since Arther Schlesinger to see RFK's private papers, and he interviewed all of Kennedy's closest aides and advisors, many of whom were forthcoming...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
587 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes Williams' professional relationships with Hoffa, Armand Hammer, Joseph McCarthy, and Sam Giancana and how he advised the Washington Post to print the Pentagon Papers.
6) A long time coming: the inspiring, combative 2008 campaign and the historic election of Barack Obama
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs, Ltd
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 220 p. : black & white photographs, 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This this is the story behind the 2008 election that saw the first African American win the presidency.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (ca. 14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "Sea of Thunder" comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today.
Publisher
Agora Productions
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Uncovers new evidence that reveals how John F. Kennedy reversed years of entrenched United States government policy to embark on secret back-channel peace efforts with Nikita Krushchev, Fidel Castro, and other ... American enemies. The film brings to light how President Kennedy was subverted by top US officials and considers how the world might be different had he lived."--Container.
Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, the film uncovers...
