Thurston Clarke, Author . Holt $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7213-6
Ever since the success of Garry Wills's Lincoln at Gettysburg,
various authors have tried, with varying degrees of success, to create similar books focusing on the personalities, events and politics surrounding great rhetorical moments. One of...
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Thurston Clarke, Author . Holt $25 (321p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7792-6
In this hagiographic narrative of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 Democratic presidential primary campaign, RFK seems less a politician than a moral teacher. Hammering away at the immorality of poverty and racism, he confronted crowds with their own...
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Thurston Clarke, Author Harper Perennial $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70855-0
According to PW , ``From a three-year trip around the world, crisscrossing the equator over three continents, Clarke returned with tales and impressions to delight even the most jaded armchair traveler.'' He relives his adventures on overcrowded,...
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Thurston Clarke, Author Ballantine Books $12.95 (417p) ISBN 978-0-345-40908-9
A portrait of California through the lenses of history, sociology, personality and seismology. (July)
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Thurston Clarke, Author William Morrow & Company $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06901-8
From a three-year trip around the world, crisscrossing the equator over three continents, from South America east to Africa, Asia and back to South America via Pacific equatorial islands, Clarke, author of Dirty Money , etc., returned with tales and
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Thurston Clarke, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (411p) ISBN 978-0-688-08301-4
Though bloodier battles have been long forgotten, Pearl Harbor, 50 years after the fact, is remembered with a vengeance. Clarke ( Equator ) undertakes to explain why. Examining the physical and emotional legacies of the Japanese strike on December 7,
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Thurston Clarke, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-41143-3
From Robinson Crusoe to CBS's Survivor, islands have always exerted a special fascination. Clarke, a self-professed islomaniac and author of Pearl Harbor Ghosts, attempts to better understand this phenomenon by visiting different types of islands in
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Thurston Clarke. Penguin Press, $29.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-59420-425-8
Set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his assassination, this intimate look at J.F.K.’s last 100 days makes the case that had he survived that fateful November afternoon, his political star would’ve only continued to rise in a seemingly...
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Thurston Clarke, Author, Thurston Clark, Author Ballantine Books $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-38566-6
Travel writer Clarke has an original and entertaining angle on California in this meandering odyssey: the death-defying souls who live atop the most earthquake-prone regions of the country. With geological fault map in hand, he visits endangered...
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Thurston Clarke, Author, Pete Larkin, Read by , read by Pete Larkin. HighBridge Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-668-0
Forty years before Obamamania, there was another White House run that was so frenzied, reporters feared they'd be crushed to death by the electrified crowds he generated. Clarke's encyclopedic study of that short-lived, 11th-hour bid in...
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Thurston Clarke. Doubleday, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-53964-7
Clarke (Last Campaign) does a fine job in this latest reconstruction of the infamous, chaotic final days of the Republic of (South) Vietnam at the end of April 1975, specifically “the greatest evacuation under wartime conditions since Dunkirk and...
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