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Brinkley, Douglas G. was born on December 14, 1960 in Atlanta.
( The "accidental" president whose innate decency and ste...)
The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation forward. Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party, refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do. Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his underappreciated legacy to the nation.
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(On a map, the Mississippi River cuts America neatly in ha...)
On a map, the Mississippi River cuts America neatly in half coursing from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and separating East from West. But the Mississippi is in fact the “spine of our nation,” says Stephen Ambrose. It knits the nation together and connects the heartland to the world. It is our great natural wonder, a priceless treasure bought for a fledgling America by the visionary Thomas Jefferson just 200 years ago. Distinguished historians Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, with acclaimed National Geographic photographer Sam Abell, explore the length of the Mississippi—from its mouth at Delacroix Island, Louisiana, to its source at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. The result is this lavish, entertaining, engrossing chronicle of the “father of the waters,” which has shaped the history, the culture, and the very landscape of America. Highlighted by Sam Abell’s evocative contemporary photographs and wonderful period illustrations, artwork, documents, and maps, this extraordinary panorama of America’s heartland offers a lively, informative journey through the history and the landscape carved by the mighty Mississippi.
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( Professor Douglas Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week...)
Professor Douglas Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week experimental class aboard a fully equipped sleeper bus. The class would visit thirty states and ten national parks. They would read twelve books by great American writers. They would see Bob Dylan in Seattle, gamble at a Vegas casino, dance to Bourbon Street jazz in New Orleans, pay homage to Elvis Presley's Graceland and William Faulkner's Rowan Oak, ride the whitewater rapids on the Rio Grande, and experience a California earthquake. Their journey took them to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Abraham Lincoln's Springfield, Harry Truman's Independence, and Theodore Roosevelt's North Dakota badlands. And it gave them the unforgettable experience of meeting some of their cultural heroes, including William S. Burroughs and Ken Kesey, who took the gang for a spin in his own psychedelic bus. Driven by Doug Brinkley's energetic prose, The Majic Bus is a spirited travelogue of a unique experience.
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(Published for the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Voices of Va...)
Published for the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Voices of Valor, a lavishly illustrated book with audio CDs, presents gripping, first-hand accounts of the Normandy invasion with a central narrative by one of America's preeminent historians. Voices of Valor is an intimate and lasting tribute to the soldiers who fought in Normandy, featuring 40 interviews drawn from the archival holdings at the Eisenhower Center Oral History Project, the largest collection of oral histories of D-Day. Within the book areaudio CDs containing the oral testimonies of veterens who were at Normandy. Based on the oral testimonies, the text of Voices Of Valor is written by Douglas Brinkley- acclaimed historian, author, and frequent on-air commentator - along with Vietnam veteren Ronald J. Drez- lecturer, historian, and reserch associate at the Eisenhower Center.
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(Large, oblong (9 X 11 in.), 273 page, blue leatherette ha...)
Large, oblong (9 X 11 in.), 273 page, blue leatherette hardcover, with silver titles and edges, and many color photographs.
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(Dean Acheson is perhaps best remembered as President Harr...)
Dean Acheson is perhaps best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state. Yet he also played a major role in politics and foreign affairs after his tenure in the Truman administration. This engrossing book, the first to chronicle Acheson's postsecretarial career, paints a portrait of a brilliant, irascible, and powerful man acting during a turbulent period in American history. "Lucid and graceful. . . . A fascinating window on the Cold War, seen through the eyes of a giant."-Evan Thomas, The New York Times Book Review "A good and fundamentally well-ballanced book."-George Ball, The New York Review of Books "Brinkley's book is valuable. . . . What Brinkley has done, by focusing on the phase of Acheson's life when his native conservatism was most outspokenly revealed, is to highlight the reckless perversity of the charges laid against him by his enemies, and so to restore to him the reputation he does deserve, as the grandmaster of the anti-Communist grand alliance."-Godfrey Hodgson, The New Republic "A new, thoughtful and thorough study of Acheson in retirement traces his continuing influence over American affairs in long overdue detail."-Martin Walker, Washington Post Book World "A vivid and compelling portrait of the lion in winter."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "The most full and fully informed study to date on Acheson."-Raymond L. Garthoff, New York Newsday "A fascinating, slightly off-center perspective on the Cold War world and the mentality which governed American foreign policy from 1947 to 1991."-Warren Kimball, Times Literary Supplement "Brinkley's treatment of Acheson is fair and objective. . . . He has done students of recent American history a signal service in giving him his say."-H.W. Brands, American Historical Review
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Brinkley, Douglas G. was born on December 14, 1960 in Atlanta.
Bachelor, Ohio State University, 1982. Master of Arts, Georgetown University, Washington, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy in Military and Diplomatic History, Georgetown University, Washington, 1989.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Connecticut University. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), NOVA Southeastern University, Ft, Lauderdale, Florida.
Professor United States Navel Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, Princeton University, New Jersey, Hofstra University, Long Island. Stephen E. Ambrose professor history, director Eisenhower Center American Studies University New Orleans. Professor history, director Theodore Roosevelt Center American Civilization Tulane University, New Orleans, 2005—2007, director Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization.
Professor history Rice University, Houston, since 2007, fellow James A. Baker III Institute Public Policy, since 2007.
(Published for the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Voices of Va...)
(On a map, the Mississippi River cuts America neatly in ha...)
( The "accidental" president whose innate decency and ste...)
( Professor Douglas Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week...)
(Dean Acheson is perhaps best remembered as President Harr...)
(The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusad...)
( Volume Two of the daily diaries of the 40th President o...)
( Volume One of the daily diaries of the 40th President o...)
(Large, oblong (9 X 11 in.), 273 page, blue leatherette ha...)
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Married; 3 children.