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…
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…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content A haunting portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the mid-twentieth century, this biography takes a penetrating look at James Forrestal’s life and work. Brilliant, ambitious, glamorous, yet a perpetual outsider, Forrestal forged a career that took him from his working-class origins to the social and financial…
Book Description Jean Monnet: The Path to European Unity is a collection of essays, first-hand accounts and critical commentaries about one of the key architects of a united Europe. Close friends who supported Monnet’s goals of a European Community in partnership with the United States are balanced by those whose affection for the French citizen…
