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From one of Americas most revered journalistsa richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nations capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century. Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider himself could have given Franklin D. Roosevelt counting out enough cigarettes to get through a half-hour debriefing with the press; May Craig, the first female reporter to penetrate Roosevelts inner sanctum, who never failed to remind the president that his wife was a newspaper writer, too; Theodore Bilbo, a Mississippi senator and race baiter who effectively became mayor of Washington at a time when it was a segregated provincial town; Jimmy Hoffa, the popular and ill-fated union leader; Lyndon Johnson, whom Brinkley describes as the most impressive and appalling figure he encountered; and Ronald Reagan, whom he found to be the most mysterious of the eleven presidents he covered. Here is also Brinkleys account of President Kennedys assassination and a poignant remembrance of D-day. David Brinkley was there and saw it all. In the sour-lovable manner (Mark Feeney, Boston Globe ) of storytelling that he pe

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Author

Brinkley, David

Publisher

Random House Large Print

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375406447

Category

history

Subjects

Computer Science, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.92 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14