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Fitzgeralds and the Kennedysby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0312063547 (0-312-06354-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys'Book summary:Family friend and confidant Doris Kearns Goodwin tells the story of two families whose lives shaped our times. This magnificent real-life saga reveals the ambitions that built a dynasty of American royalty--and the passions that nearly destroyed it. Soon to be an ABC-TV miniseries. HC: Simon & Schuster. (Nonfiction) [via]
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- Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: ISBN 0312909330 (0-312-90933-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: ISBN 0743201752 (0-7432-0175-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books - The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: ISBN 0297790900 (0-297-79090-0)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited - Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: ISBN 0517687704 (0-517-68770-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: ISBN 0312063547 (0-312-06354-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: ISBN 0312909330 (0-312-90933-0)
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys/an American Sagaby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0671231081 (0-671-23108-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Guardian of the Presidency: The Legacy of Richard E. Neustadtby Matthew J. Dickinson, Elizabeth A. Neustadt, Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 081571842X (0-8157-1842-X)
Hardcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Centuryby Andrew Carroll, Robert G. Torricelli, Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0743410521 (0-7434-1052-1)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century'Book summary:Bill Clinton's televised confession in the tawdry matter of Monica Lewinsky may not qualify as a sterling political moment, or even as a particularly inspired act of oratory. Whether seen as a gesture of remorse or an evasion, that apology was certainly extraordinary by any measure, and Senator Robert Torricelli rightly includes it here. In Our Own Words is his anthology of what he deems to be exceptional American speechifying. (Clinton's first draft was a more accomplished piece of writing and pleading forgiveness than the truculent final version; Torricelli and coeditor Andrew Carroll include both texts.)
Torricelli and Carroll's working definition of what constitutes a speech is broad, and arguably so. It encompasses not only such fine moments of public rhetoric as Notre Dame president Charles O'Donnell's eulogy to football coach Knute Rockne and Dwight Eisenhower's warning about the growing power of what he called the "military-industrial complex," but also actress Jane Fonda's wartime radio broadcasts from Hanoi and Frank Zappa's congressional testimony against proposed measures to initiate a national rating system for recorded music--not exactly speeches, a purist might object, but still useful primary sources for students of the recent past.
A practiced speechmaker himself, Torricelli brings in the voices not only of legislators and politicians, but also of ordinary people moved to heights of eloquence. The result is an eminently readable collection spanning the last hundred years, useful to students of history and of public discourse. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Kennedy Weddings : A Family Albumby Jay Mulvaney, Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0312291604 (0-312-29160-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dreamby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0312060270 (0-312-06027-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream'Book summary:Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man--his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other.
Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity. [via]
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Mortal Friendsby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0807063398 (0-8070-6339-8)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mortal Friends'Book summary:Sweeping from the Irish Rebellion of the early 1920s to the tumultuous Boston of Mayor James Michael Curley and the Kennedys, Mortal Friends is the saga of Irish revolutionary Colman Brady and the choices that shaped his fate. James Carroll is the author of five novels and two acclaimed works of nonfiction, including the National Book Award-winning An American Requiem. [via]
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No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0684004488 (0-684-00448-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'Book summary:A compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. With an uncanny feel for detail and a novelist's grasp of drama and depth, Doris Kearns Goodwin brilliantly narrates the interrelationship between the inner workings of the Roosevelt White House and the destiny of the United States. Goodwin paints a comprehensive, intimate portrait that fills in a historical gap in the story of our nation under the Roosevelts. [via]
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Softcover, Simon & Schuster - No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II: ISBN 0671642405 (0-671-64240-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II: ISBN 0684004488 (0-684-00448-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II: ISBN 0684804484 (0-684-80448-4)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincolnby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0743270754 (0-7432-7075-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln'Book summary:Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. [via]
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoirby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0684847957 (0-684-84795-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir'Book summary:Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries. We meet the people who influenced Goodwin's early life: her father, who emerged from a traumatic childhood without a trace of self-pity or rancor and who taught his daughter early on that she should say whatever she thought and should bring her voice into any conversation at any time; her mother, whose heart problems left her with the arteries of a seventy-year-old when she was only in her thirties and whose love of books allowed her to break the boundaries of the narrow world to which she was confined by her chronic illness; her two older sisters; her friends on the block; the local storekeepers; her school friends and teachers. This is also the story of a girlhood in which the great religious festivals of the Catholic church and the seasonal imperatives of baseball combined to produce a passionate love of history, ceremony, and ritual. It is the story of growing up in what seemed on the surface a more innocent era until one recalls the terror of polio, the paranoia of McCarthyism reflected even in the children's games, the obsession with A-bomb drills in school, and the ugly face of racial prejudice. It was a time whose relative tranquillity contained the seeds of the turbulent decade of the sixties. [via]
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Wait till Next Year: Reading Group Guideby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0684007150 (0-684-00715-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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