For me to like any political book is amazing in itself.
For me to like any political book is amazing in itself.
I got this from the library and amazingly enough, it is a transcript of the actual interviews that Jacqueline Kennedy gave to Arthur Schlesinger in 1964, a mere 4 months after JFK had been killed, and then a set of CD's of those very interviews. I am reading the interviews now, and probably will l...
Whatever you may think of Jack's politics or his performance as president, you have to marvel at his mastery of personal interaction.Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was a devoted historian with a specific agenda for these interviews. He was the orchestrator, with a list of questions to which he doggedly ...
I highly recommend this book to just about anyone. It is an interesting read that not only describles the Presidents' issues, opinions, & courageous stands, but makes the people come alive. You can picture Washington just wanting to go home to Mt Vernon, Lincoln crying that his best will never pleas...
I found it a bit dull and repetitive.
Interesting angle to look a WWII and the post war years through the eyes of Roosevelt and Truman. The wheels of politics and how they turn...
It's truly astonishing the impact an accident can have on history. On May 1, 1960, Francis Gary Powers was captured in the Soviet Union after his U-2 spy plane was shot down or crashed. (The precise cause has never been established.) Michael Beschloss in Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-...
I know I should read this one but it seems like medicine rather that fun.
The years between 1960 and President Kennedy's death were fraught with danger. At no time in the world's history, perhaps, have we come closer to self-annihilation. It was one crisis after another ending with the Berlin standoff and Cuban Missile Crisis.Kennedy's first test was the Bay of Pigs. He l...
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