Brinkley's Beat : People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
By David BrinkleyHere are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider himself could have given us: 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 Roosevelt's inner sanctum, who never failed to remind the president that his wife was a newspaper writer, too; Theodore Bilbo, a Mississippi senator and race baitor 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 Brinkley's account of President Kennedy's assassination and a poignant remembrance of D-day.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 224 pages
- English
- 0375406441
- 9780375406447
About David Brinkley
full name: david mcclure brinkley*abc and nbc newscaster*co-anchored the huntley–brinkley report*nbc nightly news co-anchor and correspondent*sunday Read More about David Brinkley
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