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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Alan Brinkley

Throughout the book, Brinkley elegantly blends FDR's personal life with his professional one, providing a lens into the President's struggles with polio and his somewhat distant relationship with the first lady.
Cronkite

Cronkite

Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite.
John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th ...

John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th ...

Alan Brinkley

But as Alan Brinkley shows in this incisive and lively assessment, the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend.
The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey

The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey

Douglas Brinkley

Professor Douglas Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week experimental class aboard a fully equipped sleeper bus.
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade ...

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade ...

Douglas Brinkley

One of the Best Books of the Year The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kansas City Star, The Chicago Tribune, and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch In this monumental biography, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley examines the life and ...
American Heritage History of the United States:

American Heritage History of the United States:

Douglas Brinkley

"Douglas Brinkley and American Heritage have done a grand job. This is a first-rate book: fair, clear, and enormously welcome.
Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?

Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?

Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz has done an excellent job of presenting the possible explanations of what we are doing here and why we are here. I highly recommend this book." -Dannion Brinkley, author of Saved by the Light, and The Secrets of the Light
Liberalism and Its Discontents

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Alan Brinkley

Discusses the impact of Franklin Roosevelt, Robert Penn Warren, T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, Allard Lowenstein, and Oral Roberts upon American political culture
Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War

Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War

Douglas Brinkley

Covering more than four decades, Tour of Duty is the definitive account of John Kerry's journey from war to peace. Written by acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley, this is the first full-scale, intimate account of Kerry's naval career.
Romantic Revisions

Romantic Revisions

Robert Brinkley

FINDING MARY SHELLEY IN HER LETTERS BETTY T. BENNETT WHEN the first volume of my edition of The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was published in 1980, one reviewer suggested that Mary Shelley's letters were not worth ...
American History: A Survey

American History: A Survey

Alan Brinkley

Includes bibliographies and index.
Proceedings ... Held in the City of New Orleans on the 8th, ...

Proceedings ... Held in the City of New Orleans on the 8th, ...

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Estee, J. C. Knettle, Shreveport ; J W. P. McGimeey, Baton Rouge ; Felix Husten, East Feliciana ; John It. Evans, John M. Sandidge. Bossier ; John Moore, H.J. Heard, St. Martin''s; George P. Briant, East Baton Rouge ; John L. Titus. A. Titus, C. B. Penrose, J. B. Wil kinson, Plaquemines; Robert C. Nicholas. Carroll ; Daniel P. Sparks, St. Mkry''s. Tennessee. — D. M. Leatherman. William D. Ferguson, Thomas U. Neil, J. E. R. Ray, John P. Caruthers, J. H. McNeil, John H. Brinkley, A. Erwin.
American History: A Survey

American History: A Survey

Alan Brinkley

The eleventh edition of this text places American history into that global context, making connections for students who live in an ever-expanding world themselves.
Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

Douglas Brinkley

A portrait of the African American woman immortalized for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger examines who Rosa Parks was before, during, and after her historic act.
Twain’s Omissions: Exploring the Gaps as Textual Context

Twain’s Omissions: Exploring the Gaps as Textual Context

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Alvarez, Joseph. Introduction. Mark Twain's Geographical Imagination. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2009. 1-6. Ambrose, Stephen E., and Douglas G. Brinkley. The Mississippi and The Making of a Nation: From the ...
Johnson County, Kentucky: History and Families

Johnson County, Kentucky: History and Families

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TX. and is married to Gordon Roberts and has no children She is an executive secretary. Becky Jane is married to Raymond Brinkley. She is a ... WV 91 Lancelord Clyde Wiley ihom Jun. 26. 1920 in Pikeville, KY and died' Jun. 22. 1995 in ...
The Publisher

The Publisher

Alan Brinkley

28-29. 35. Daily Glonk, n.d., May 12, 1913, Hadden Mss., TIA: Noel V. Busch, Briton Had- den: A Biography of the Co-Fonnder of Time (New York: Farrar Straus, 1949), pp. % — 1 7; Hans L. Wydler, " 'The Late Gargantuan Man': Briton Hadden, ...
The Nixon Tapes: 1973 (WITH AUDIO CLIPS)

The Nixon Tapes: 1973 (WITH AUDIO CLIPS)

Douglas Brinkley

The Nixon Tapes: 1973 tells the concluding chapter of the story, the final year of taping, covering such events as the Vietnam cease-fire, the Wounded Knee standoff, and, of course, the Watergate investigation.
Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and ...

Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and ...

Gene Fowler

This book traces the eventful history of border radio from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great ...

Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great ...

Alan Brinkley

Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. ...
The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973

The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973

Kathleen J. Frydl

... of this project: Anna Armentrout, Alan Brinkley, Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Charlotte Cowden, Jo Guldi, Kimberly Johnson, Kerwin Klein, Emily Mackil, Joyce Mao, Maureen Miller, Sarah Milov, Adrienne Petty, Jacqui Shine, Gordon Silverstein, ...
Nice Talking With You Level 2 Student's Book

Nice Talking With You Level 2 Student's Book

KennyTom

... Trevor Astley, l\lasahiro Kato, Rebecca Brinkley, Louise Haynes, Brad Deacon, Suzanne Miyake, Simon Lees, Tanja Kondo, Philip Suthons, Yoshi Sato, Troy l\/ liller, l\/latt Lott, Claudia Bracco, Joshua Wilson, and Chihiro Yonekawa. Finally ...
Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse

Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse

A. Funari

1 (Winter 2000): 96–143. Bacon,Francis. The Advancement ofLearning.1605. Facsimilereprint. London:Dodo Press,2005. ... Coleridge, SamuelT. “Francis Bacon.” InColeridge ontheSeventeenth Century,edited by Roberta Florence Brinkley, ...
Darling

Darling

Frederic Raphael

It was all happening. “Diana?” “Yes. Who's that?” “I rang to congratulateyou.” “ Robert?” “Robert? Who's Robert?” “Who is that?” “I read you're about torollwith Maxim.” “That's notyou,Mai, is it?” “Robert! Mai!What afull lifeyoumust lead.” “ Miles?
Jackson Squared

Jackson Squared

Smallwood F. Robert

Smallwood F. Robert, F. Smallwood Robert F. Smallwood. Acclaim for,. ROBERT. SMALLWOOD'S. WRITING “Robert Smallwood writes in a feral style... unique & gutsy and what I call writing without a net!” -- Rex Reed, New York Observer ...

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