The American story conversations with master historians

Rubenstein, David M.

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Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand: David McCullough on John Adams, Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson, Ron Chernow on Alexander H...

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ISBN:

9781432876180

Edition:

Large print edition

Description:

701 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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Other Title:

Conversations with master historians

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

Foreword by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Introduction by David M. Rubenstein
Jack D. Warren Jr. on George Washington
David McCollough on John Adams
Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson
Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton
Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin
Cokie Roberts on founding mothers
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln
A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh
Jay Winik on Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jean Edward Smith on Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Reeves on John F. Kennedy
Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement
Robert A. Caro on Lyndon B. Johnson
Bob Woodward on Richard M. Nixon and executive power
H. W. Brands on Ronald Reagan
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on the U.S. Supreme Court

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2904111

Other Authors:

Hayden, Carla Diane, 1952-

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