Background
Mee, Charles L. was born on September 15, 1938 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles L. and Sarah (Lowe) Mee.
(From the book's inside flap: "This the story of the makin...)
From the book's inside flap: "This the story of the making of the most successful piece of foreign policy conceived by any nation in the twentieth century---and of the men who made it: President Harry S. Truman, the common man with the uncommon knack for domestic politics; General George C. Marshall, a man of unquestioned honor the selflessness; the patrician Dean Acheson, who reached out to pick up the pieces of the British Empire as through they had always been his; George F. Kennan, the ambivalent, intellectual policy planner who coined the expression 'containment; that sprint of '47 as the Marshall Plan was being put together; Will Clayton, the cotton broker eager for international markets; Ambassador Jefferson Caffery; and all the others. "
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(Using an inventive, lively approach and brilliant command...)
Using an inventive, lively approach and brilliant command of detail, Mee (author of the critically acclaimed Genius of the People and Meeting at Potsdam) reproduces seven singular moments when heads of state--from Attila the Hun and Henry VIII to Roosevelt and Gorbachev--have come together to decide the future of the world.
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( When Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920, h...)
When Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920, he brought to Washington some of his political chums from Ohio. They played poker; they sold illegal liquor permits, pardons and paroles. They sold fixes in the Justice Department and transported contraband across state lines. They sold naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome and sheets out of Army warehouses. The Ohio Gang , an historical entertainment peopled with the characters of the day, follows Harding and his cronies from their Ohio childhoods to the smoke-filled rooms of the Republican convention and on to the White House. We meet Henry Daugherty, the attorney general with the disconcerting eyes; Jess Smith, tall and pigeon-toed; Nan Britton, the teenage girl who fell in love with Harding’s campaign posters and who later became his mistress and mother to his illegitimate daughter; and America’s first lady, the Duchess. Following the antics of the president and his administration, The Ohio Gang concludes with Harding’s whistle-stop tour of the country—his final, despairing attempt to keep his presidency from coming undone. An entertaining and immensely readable encapsulation of democracy American-style, The Ohio Gang is an historical tour de force in which the presidency is seen as a traveling medicine show.
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(As a fourteen-year-old boy from a small Midwestern town, ...)
As a fourteen-year-old boy from a small Midwestern town, Charles Mee believed in God, family, and his future, which, at the very least, included girls and a long spell as a hometown football hero. But when he collapsed one night at a school dance, his dreams began to vanish. In a narrative at once funny and profound, Mee brilliantly captures the era in which polio, not communism, was every American parent's nightmare. Unraveling the mysteries of his own Cold War youth, Mee gives voice both to the child with a potentially fatal disease and to the man whose recognition of himself as a disabled outsider has served to heighten his gifts as a storyteller.
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( In a literary tour de force , Charles L. Mee Jr. int...)
In a literary tour de force , Charles L. Mee Jr. interweaves images and impressions from his life with political reflections inspired by a meeting with former Nixon aide H. R. Haldeman. The meeting—to discuss the possibility of collaborating with Haldeman on a book about his White House experience—becomes the vehicle for Mee’s probing of his own political perceptions. Here, exposed to the scrutiny of an unsparing journalistic eye, are the deep feelings of loss and failure that the Nixon debacle engendered in those Americans who came of age during Kennedy’s “Camelot” and marched to the anti-Vietnam anthems of the Johnson era. Mee writes with moving authenticity of his Midwest-Catholic boyhood and family roots reaching back to the Plymouth settlement; he vividly recounts the physical and psychological pain of a near-fatal battle with polio at age fourteen and his intellectual awakening during convalescence But the most pivotal reminiscences are of his student years at Harvard and his experiences aas an editor/writer/activist in the 1960s. There is wonderment and bewilderment in Mee’s telling of this time. Along with others of his generation, he asks: “What happened? Who were the real betrayers of the dream?”
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Mee, Charles L. was born on September 15, 1938 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles L. and Sarah (Lowe) Mee.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1960.
Editor-in chief, Horizon magazine, 1971-1975.
(Using an inventive, lively approach and brilliant command...)
(Through logbooks, eyewitness accounts, and conference tra...)
(From the book's inside flap: "This the story of the makin...)
(As a fourteen-year-old boy from a small Midwestern town, ...)
( A well established historian, Charles Mee is known in d...)
(The first World War and the Versailles Treaty that follow...)
(The imperial powers of the nineteenth century, having wea...)
(Genius of the People, The, by Mee, Charles L. Jr.)
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(Meeting At Potsdam, by Mee, Charles L. Jr.)
( When Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920, h...)
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Member Urban Institute (board directors), En Garde Arts (board directors).
Married Suzi Baker (divorced). Children: Erin, Charles. Married Kathleen Tolan.
Children: Sarah, Alice.