Alan Brinkley

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1) The publisher: Henry Luce and his American century

Author

Brinkley, Alan

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A profile of the media giant founder of such magazines as "Time," "Life," and "Fortune" documents his childhood as the son of missionaries, university years, and prescient beliefs that transformed the magazine industry.

2) Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression

Author

Brinkley, Alan

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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The study of two great demagogues in American history—Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. 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...

3) John F. Kennedy

Author

Brinkley, Alan

Series

American presidents series)

Publisher

Times Books

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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"John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961?the youngest man ever elected to the office?and he personified what he called the "New Frontier" as the United States entered the 1960s. But as Alan Brinkley shows in his ... assessment, the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend. His brief presidency...