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Reeves, Richard was born on November 28, 1936 in New York City. Son of Furman W. and Dorothy (Forshay) Reeves.
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Richard Reeves's acclaimed account of a presidency solves the puzzle of Ronald Reagan -- a man of limited breadth and knowledge who was perhaps the most effective superpower president. Using the techniques he employed in his bestselling books on Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, Reeves takes us inside Reagan's Oval Office, where we find a charismatic, crafty, focused politician. Astonishing in its intimacy, authoritative in its sourcing, President Reagan is a portrait of modern presidential power that will stand as the definitive study of Reagan in the White House.
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The power and status of the press in America reached new heights after spectacular reporting triumphs in the segregated South, in Vietnam, and in Washington during the Watergate years. Then new technologies created instantaneous global reporting which left the government unable to control the flow of information to the nation. The press thus became a formidable rival in critical struggles to control what the people know and when they know it. But that was more power than the press could handle--and journalism crashed toward new lows in public esteem and public purpose. The dazzling new technologies, profit-driven owners, and celebrated editors, reporters, and broadcasters made it possible to bypass older values and standards of journalism. Journalists reveled in lusty pursuit after the power of politics, the profits of entertainment and trespass into privacy. Richard Reeves was there at the rise and at the fall, beginning as a small-town editor, becoming the chief political correspondent of the New York Times and then a best-selling author and award-winning documentary filmmaker. He tells the story of a tribe that lost its way. From the Pony Express to the Internet, he chronicles what happened to the press as America accelerated into uncertainty, arguing that to survive, the press must go back to doing what it was hired to do long ago: stand as outsiders watching government and politics on behalf of a free people busy with their own affairs.
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In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II—pilots, navigators, and mechanics—who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report to local military bases. The president, Harry S. Truman, was recalling them to active duty to try to save the desperate people of the western sectors of Berlin, the enemy capital many of them had bombed to rubble only three years before. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had ordered a blockade of the city, isolating the people of West Berlin, using hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers to close off all land and water access to the city. He was gambling that he could drive out the small detachments of American, British, and French occupation troops, because their only option was to stay and watch Berliners starve—or retaliate by starting World War III. The situation was impossible, Truman was told by his national security advisers, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His answer: "We stay in Berlin. Period." That was when the phones started ringing and local police began banging on doors to deliver telegrams to the vets. Drawing on service records and hundreds of interviews in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, Reeves tells the stories of these civilian airmen, the successors to Stephen Ambrose’s "Citizen Soldiers," ordinary Americans again called to extraordinary tasks. They did the impossible, living in barns and muddy tents, flying over Soviet-occupied territory day and night, trying to stay awake, making it up as they went along and ignoring Russian fighters and occasional anti-aircraft fire trying to drive them to hostile ground. The Berlin Airlift changed the world. It ended when Stalin backed down and lifted the blockade, but only after the bravery and sense of duty of those young heroes had bought the Allies enough time to create a new West Germany and sign the mutual defense agreement that created NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. And then they went home again. Some of them forgot where they had parked their cars after they got the call.
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President Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an indepth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear war abroad to racial unrest at home. "A narrative that leaves us not only with a new understanding of Kennedy as President, but also with a new understanding of what it means to be President" (The New York Times).
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 Deckle Edge HardcoverRichard Reeves (Author)
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President Reagan: the Triumph of Imagination follows the chronological order, and in detail records a series of political and historical events between 1981-1989 of President Reagans administration, as well as his political attitude. Meanwhile, it records figures in his time, in terms of their attitude, points of view, political stand of his staff and family, so that readers can know about Reagan and the United States of that time.
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Reeves, Richard was born on November 28, 1936 in New York City. Son of Furman W. and Dorothy (Forshay) Reeves.
Master of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1960.
Engineer Ingersoll-Rand Company, Phillipsburg, New Jersey, 1960-1961. Editor Phillipsburg Free Press, 1961-1963. Reporter Newark News, 1963-1965, New York Herald Tribune, 1965-1966.
Chief political correspondent New York Times, 1966-1971. Editor New York, 1971-1977. Lecturer Hunter College, 1969-1970, Columbia University, 1971-1972.
National editor, columnist Esquire, 1977-1979. Chief correspondent Frontline, Public Broadcasting Service, 1981—1984. Syndicated columnist, since 1979.
Regents professor political science University of California at Los Angeles, 1992-1993, visiting professor Annenburg School for Communications, 1998. Host "Sunday" NBC-television, 1972-1975, "American Journey" Public Broadcasting Service-television, 1983.
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Married Carol A. Wiegand, June 1, 1959 (divorced 1971). Married Catherine E. O'Neill, July 28, 1979. Children: Cynthia Ann, Jeffrey Richard, Colin O'Neill, Conor O'Neill, Fiona O'Neill.