Books by Douglas G. Brinkley and Complete Book Reviews
Townsend Hoopes, Author, Douglas G. Brinkley, Author, Douglas G. Brinkley, Joint Author Yale University Press $50 (304p) ISBN 978-0-300-06930-3
Never does the adage ""The past is prologue"" seem more apt than while reading this account of the creation of the United Nations. The modest successes and the severe limitations of the world's peacekeeping institution can be traced back to the 1945
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author . Morrow $25.95 (546p) ISBN 978-0-06-056523-7
Popular historian Brinkley's account of John Kerry's Vietnam experience could easily serve as the first part of a multivolume biography, examining the senator and presidential candidate's early life in rigorous detail. Entering the U.S....
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author . Morrow $29.95 (716p) ISBN 978-0-06-112423-5
Historian Brinkley (Tour of Duty
, etc.) opens his detailed examination of the awful events that took place on the Gulf Coast late last summer by describing how a New Orleans animal shelter began evacuating its charges at the first notice of the...
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author Yale University Press $34 (446p) ISBN 978-0-300-06075-1
Deftly examines Acheson's influential role as political advisor after the Truman administration. (Feb.)
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author William Morrow & Company $22.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-06-056527-5
On the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Reagan chose the subtitle's battalion as a rhetorical peg on which to hang a commemoration of the entire U.S. war effort, a conceit that worked beautifully. Brinkley (Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the...
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author Yale University Press $45 (429p) ISBN 978-0-300-04773-8
Considered a major architect of postwar foreign policy, Acheson (1893-1971) served as Truman's Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953. This eminently readable study, however, doesn't focus on his career in office, but rather on his last 18 years as an
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author Anchor Books $15.95 (523p) ISBN 978-0-385-47419-1
Chronicles six weeks on the road with an experimental college history class which crisscrossed the country on a sleeper bus. (July)
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author Viking Books $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-88006-5
Jimmy Carter's post-presidential career as peripatetic global peacemaker has been dismissed by critics as na ve and sanctimonious, notes University of New Orleans history professor Brinkley. He retorts here, viewing the former president as a deeply...
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author Viking Books $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-89160-3
In the second volume to date of the popular Penguin Lives series to be devoted to a woman (remarkably, only four of the projected 26 subjects will be female), historian Brinkley shreds several key myths surrounding Rosa Parks, the African-American...
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author, Julie M. Fenster, Author William Morrow & Company $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-077684-8
Fr. Michael McGivney (1852-1890) is under consideration for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. So why has almost no one heard of this Connecticut parish priest who helped to transform American Catholicism? McGivney entered seminary when he was...
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author, Ronald J. Drez, Author . Bulfinch $35 (185p) ISBN 978-0-8212-2889-0
Brinkley, author of John Kerry: Tour of Duty
and director of the University of New Orleans's Eisenhower Center for American Studies, and editor-historian Drez team up to present the testimony of D-Day veterans: two 60-minute audio CDs (narrated
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Douglas G. Brinkley, Author, D. Brinkley, Author . Viking $34.95 (880p) ISBN 978-0-670-03181-8
Two other histories of Ford are slated for publication this year; four were published last year. Brinkley, a University of New Orleans history professor, distinguishes his as the only "single volume business and social history of Ford Motor from
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