Charles J. Kelly

Tex McCrary

Wars-Women-Politics, An Adventurous Life Across The American Century

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Produktbeschreibung

William Safire: ...I could never get him to write his memoirs before he died; the active octogenarian stubbornly said "I won't live my life with eyes on the rear-view mirror." But Chuck Kelly...interviewed him skillfully and often, and now we have an adventurer's eye-view of McCrary's little-known role in tempestuous times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780761844556
• ISBN-10: 0761844554
• Artikelnr.: 25854064

Autorenporträt

Charles J. Kelly

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Texas, Exeter...and Yale: The Education of a Future "Insider"
Chapter 2 Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal": The Depression and Isolationism
Chapter 3 Bernard Baruch and the "Gathering Storm" in Europe
Chapter 4 "We Want Willkie" "No Third Term!"...Roosevelt: "Your Sons Will
Not Be Sent to Fight in Foriegn Wars"
Chapter 5 The RAF "Eagle Squadron" and Lord Beaverbrook
Chapter 6 Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: "Flying Fortresses" Over Germany
Chapter 7 War in the Mediterranean: England's "Lifeline of Empire"
Chapter 8 War in the Pacific: MacArthur and Hiroshima
Chapter 9 A "Victory" Tour Through Asia: Intimations of Wars to Come
Chapter 10 Tex and Jinx: Pioneers in Television
Chapter 11 Korea: The Forgotten Ear: MacArthur and Truman
Chapter 12 "I Like Ike"
Chapter 13 "He Kept the Peace"
Chapter 14 The Failure of an Eisenhower Succession: Rockefeller: What If?
Chapter 15 Jack Kennedy: The Dream of Camelot and the Nightmare of Vietnam
Chapter 16 "Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Boys Did You Kill Today?"
Chapter 17 Nixon's "Secret" War, His "Southern Strategy," and Disgrace
Chapter 18 The Arab Oil Embargo: "That Damn Fool Nixon Turned His Back on
the World's Largest Oil Reserve to Fight a Losing War in a Small Asian
Country that Grows Rice!"
Chapter 19 Ronald Reagan: "Morning in America"..."Mr. Gorbachev: Tear Down
That Wall"
Chapter 20 Bush "41": The Aborted Ending of the Gulf War
Chapter 21 Bill Clinton: "All Sail; No Keel"
Chapter 22 Citizens for Colin Powell: The Appeal of "The Sensible Center"
Chapter 23 The Evil of Two Lessers: Bush "43" and Cheney and the Loss of
the Popular Vote
Chapter 24 The 9/11 Attack on America and War in Iraq