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Achesonby James Chace
Simon & Schuster 2008; US$ 14.99Acheson is the first complete biography of the most important and controversial secretary of state of the twentieth century. More than any other of the renowned "Wise Men" who together proposed our vision of the world in the aftermath of World War II, Dean Acheson was the quintessential man of action. Drawing on Acheson family diaries and letters as well as recent revelations from Russian and Chinese archives, historian James Chace traces Acheson's remarkable life, from his days as a schoolboy at Groton and his carefree life at Yale to his work for President Franklin Roosevelt on international financial policy and his unique partnership with President Truman. Acheson was a housemate of Cole Porter's at Harvard Law School, a protégé... more...
The Kennedys at Warby Edward J. Jr Renehan
Doubleday Publishing 2002; US$ 15.99A dramatic, fascinating–and revisionist–narrative detailing how America’s first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and brought to life by a critically acclaimed author. From breathless hagiographies to scandal-mongering exposés, no family has generated more bestselling books than the Kennedys. None of them, however, has focused on the watershed period of World War II, when the course of the family and its individual members changed utterly. Now, in an engaging narrative grounded in impeccable scholarship, Edward J. Renehan, Jr., provides a dramatic portrait of years marked by family tensions, heartbreaks, and heroics. It was during this time that tragedy began... more...
The Familyby Kitty Kelley
Doubleday Publishing 2004; US$ 13.99From the First Lady of unauthorized, tell-all biography, this is the first real inside-look at the most powerful–and secretive–family in the world. From Senator Prescott Bush's alcoholism, to his son George Herbert Walker Bush's infidelities, to George Walker Bush's religious conversion, shady financial deals, and military manipulations, Kitty Kelley captures the portrait of a family that has whitewashed its own story almost out of existence. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Minnie Fisher Cunninghamby Judith N. McArthur; Harold L. Smith
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 30.00Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Texas's most important female political activist, directed Texas's woman suffrage campaign, helped found the National League of Women Voters and the Woman's National Democratic Club and was also a leader of the post-1945 Texas liberal movement. This is a biography of the politician affectionately known as Minnie Fish. more...
American Ambassadorby Waldo H. Heinrichs
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 75.00The definitive biography of Grew, who was American Ambassador to Japan in the years leading up to Pearl Harbor, and Under Secretary of State during the Second World War. more...
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policyby David Mayers
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 26.00This political biography examines Kennan's thoughts in the context of his many years of government service and his political counsel in the field of foreign policy. more...
Van Loonby Cornelis A. van Minnen
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Hendrik van Loon emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States at age 20, in 1902. Working as a historian, journalist, and illustrator, he immersed himself in American cultural life from the 1920s to the '40s. This biography is a nuanced portrait of a man deeply involved in American cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century. more...
The FDR Yearsby William D. Pederson
Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 85.00Born in 1882 in New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered public service through the encouragement of the Democratic Party and won the election to the New York Senate in 1910. This book details his administration at the height of the Great Depression as he valiantly led the nation with the phrase, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." more...
The Truman Yearsby Tracy S. Uebelhor
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 85.00Written for high school and college students, this series highlights the administrations of the most recent US Presidents. Organized in an easy-to-use, A-to-Z format, each volume focuses on a particular administration, including an introduction, a section of biographical entries, a chronology that spans the history of the administration, and more. more...
The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Stormby Will Swift
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99In The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm , Will Swift presents a fresh, empathetic interpretation of the ambassadorship of Joseph Kennedy and explores the intricate, often shifting relationships among Kennedy, Chamberlain, Churchill, and, of course, Roosevelt. Arriving in London in early 1938, the Irish-Catholic Kennedys were welcomed by politicians, aristocrats, and intellectuals, all eager to court America. They finally appeared to have overcome their lifelong status as outsiders. From 1938 to 1940, the Kennedys crystallized their identity as protagonists on the world stage, making public the competitive and clannish intrafamily dynamics that would fuel their mythic rise to power. They all learned from their father's... more...









