Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
By Hunter S. Thompson. Introduction by Douglas Brinkley in 1999.
Witness to America
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Called “a feast of a book” by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Witness to America is a classic collection of primary source accounts covering the history of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama and everything in between. Originally compiled in 1938 by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins and revised with Stephen…
John F. Kennedy and Europe
Book Description When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the thirty-fifth president of the United States in January 1961, the Cold War was in its height. Although the Soviet Union’s menace and reach were global and its best opportunities for expansion lay in the newer, poorer countries of the Third World, Kennedy believed that Europe…
American Heritage History of the United States
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States – a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes a few small colonies made a bold cast at freedom, then burgeoned into an expanding democracy, and ultimately flourished as a world power. From the first primitive maps…
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content It is not a stretch to argue that history will remember Jimmy Carter for his post-presidential works long after his tenure in the White House has been forgotten. But as Douglas Brinkley points out in this absorbing study, it took such presidential accomplishments as human rights advocacy, the Camp David Accords,…
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
Book Description Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present, focusing on such…
FDR and the Creation of the U.N.
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content By Amazon: At a time when it is fashionable to declare the United Nations as part of the problem, rather than the solution, to international conflicts, two noted historians lucidly explain how the original objective of the body has been lost among indecision, ideological quarreling, and a lack of clear leadership.…
Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America 1600-1900
Compiled and edited by Noel Rae. Foreword by James H.Billington and Introduction by Douglas Brinkley.
Goin’ Up The Country – 1994 SPIN Magazine Article by Elizabeth Gilbert
Each year, a select few people get to go on the ultimate road trip: the Majic Bus’s three-month cross-country fantastic voyage where you meet every American legend still breathing. Elizabeth Gilbert rides shotgun. See Full Magazine Issue Here.
The Atlantic Charter
Book Description In August 1941 Churchill and Roosevelt met in a secluded bay off the coast of Newfoundland. It was the first of their wartime meetings and in many respects the most significant. The Atlantic Charter, its result, proclaimed the two leaders’ vision of a new world order, a set of principles that would govern…
The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Professor Douglas Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week experimental class aboard a fully equipped sleeper bus. The class would visit thirty states and ten national parks. They would read twelve books by great American writers. They would see Bob Dylan in Seattle, gamble at a Vegas casino, dance to Bourbon Street…
Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953-71
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content President Truman’s Secretary of State (1949-1953), Dean Acheson was a crucial figure in the shaping of the postwar world. In an astonishing creative and demanding tenure Acheson was involved to a degree seldom realized today in a huge range of issues: from the creation of NATO to the Korean War. The…