Booknotes : stories from American history /
In recent years a generation of writers have brought to life the great and small events that have shaped American history. They have shared these stories with the viewers of the long-running C-SPAN author-interview program, Booknotes. Here are some of the best.
Saved in:
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Public Affairs,
2001.
|
| Subjects: |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000008a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | c418d26d-f3de-4bfb-9181-2aeb14407d7c | ||
| 005 | 20241101000000.0 | ||
| 008 | 010827s2001 nyua 001 0 eng | ||
| 010 | |a 2001048469 | ||
| 020 | |a 1586480839 : |c $29.95 | ||
| 035 | |a (Sirsi) AER-1225 | ||
| 035 | |i LCMARC/BAD-1845/BPIKE | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |c DLC |d 05 | ||
| 043 | |a n-us--- | ||
| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a E178.6 |b .B645 2001 |
| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 973 |2 21 |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Booknotes : |b stories from American history / |c [compiled by] Brian Lamb. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Book notes | |
| 246 | 3 | 4 | |a Stories from American history |
| 246 | 3 | |a Leading historians on the events that shaped our country | |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Public Affairs, |c 2001. | ||
| 300 | |a xxii, 540 p. : |b col. ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Jacket subtitle: Leading historians on the events that shaped our country. | ||
| 500 | |a Collection of essays by various authors based on interviews originally held on the television program Booknotes. | ||
| 500 | |a Complete list of C-SPAN Booknotes (1989-2001): pp. [501]-523. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Revolution and founding, 1776-1815 (Alfred F. Young on a shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party -- Pauline Maier on declaring independence -- Jack N. Rakove on creating the Constitution -- Robert Scigliano on The Federalist papers -- Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings -- Roger G. Kennedy on the American and French Revolutions -- Bernard A. Weisberger on the contested election of 1800 -- Arnold A. Rogow on the Hamilton-Burr duel -- Michael H. Cottman on the slave ship Henrietta Marie) -- The young nation, 1815-1850 (Joyce Appleby on the first generation of Americans -- Andrew Burstein on celebrating fifty years of independence -- Harvey C. Mansfield on Tocqueville's "Democracy in America") -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Slavery and the Civil War, 1850-1865 (Stephen B. Oates on the buildup to the Civil War -- James M. McPherson on volunteer soldiers -- Drew Gilpin Faust on women of the slaveholding south -- Joseph E. Stevens on the events of 1863 -- James M. Perry on Civil War correspondents -- Brooks D. Simpson on Ulysses S. Grant's military career -- Douglas L. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Lerone Bennett Jr., and differing perspectives on Abraham Lincoln -- H.W. Crocker III, Tom Wheeler, and the leadership of Robert E. Lee -- William J. Cooper Jr. on Jefferson Davis and the confederacy) -- Rebuilding America and the gilded age, 1865-1901 (Witold Rybczynski on Frederick Law Olmsted and the building of Central Park -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a David Haward Bain on the First Transcontinental Railroad -- H. Paul Jeffers on Grover Cleveland's political career -- H.W. Brands on the events of the 1890s -- Ben Proctor on William Randolph Hearst and the rise of yellow journalism -- Jean Strouse on J.P. Morgan, national banker) -- Progressive era and reaction, 1901-1929 (Linda O. McMurry on the crusades of Ida B. Wells -- Dorothy Herrmann on the celebrity of Helen Keller -- Gina Kolata on the 1918 influenza pandemic -- Emily Bernard on Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten -- Edward J. Larson on the scopes "monkey" trial -- Robert A. Slayton on Al Smith and the 1928 election -- Larry Tye on Edward L. Bernays and the birth of public relations -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh's reluctant public life -- Peter Collier on the Roosevelt dynasty) -- Depression and war, 1929-1945 (David M. Kennedy on the Great Depression and World War II -- Allen Weinstein on the early days of Soviet espionage -- Elizabeth M. Norman on the nurses captured on Bataan -- Amity Shlaes on the creation of the withholding tax -- James Bradley on raising the flag on Iwo Jima -- Tom Brokaw on the World War II generation -- Nicholas Lemann on the great black migration -- Sally Bedell Smith, David Brinkley, Peter Jennings, and early network news) -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Early cold war, 1945-1957 (David Fromkin on five men who shaped the post-World War II world -- Christopher Matthews on the unlikely Kennedy-Nixon friendship -- Jean Edward Smith on Lucius D. Clay and postwar Berlin -- Zachary Karabell on Truman defeats Dewey -- Arthur Herman on the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy -- Norman Podhoretz on the New York intelligentsia) -- Social transformation, 1957-1975 (Roy Reed on Orval Faubus and the desegregation of Central High School -- Robert Dallek on Lyndon Johnson and the 1960 election -- Jay Parini on Robert Frost and the Kennedy inauguration -- Donald Kagan on the Cuban missile crisis -- Andrew Young on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" -- Diane McWhorter on the 1963 Birmingham church bombing -- Ben Bradlee on the Kennedy years -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Arlen Specter on the Warren Commission -- Jeff Shesol on the RFK-LBJ feud -- Anthony Lewis on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan -- Jon Margolis on stories from 1964 -- Tinsley E. Yarbrough on John Marshall Harlan and the Warren court -- Leonard Garment on getting to know Richard M. Nixon -- Charles V. Hamilton on the life and career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. -- Elizabeth Taylor on Richard J. Daley and Chicago's political machine -- Peter R. Kann and Frances FitzGerald on reporting from Vietnam -- Stuart I. Rochester on American POWS in Vietnam) -- The culture wars, 1975-2000 (Irving Kristol, Nina J. Easton, and the rise of the neoconservatives -- Kiron K. Skinner on the forgotten radio scripts of Ronald Reagan -- John A. Farrell on the political lore of Tip O'Neill -- Shelby Steele, Cornel West, Thomas Sowell, Randall Robinson : a symposium on race -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Don Oberdorfer on the Regan-Gorbachev Summits -- Marlin Fitzwater on Reagan, Bush, and the press -- Bob Woodward on planning the Persian Gulf war -- John Podhoretz on the last days of the first Bush White House -- Richard E. Cohen on Dan Rostenkowski's fall from power -- Tim Russert on a half-century of "Meet the Press" -- Bonnie Angelo on modern presidents' mothers). | |
| 520 | |a In recent years a generation of writers have brought to life the great and small events that have shaped American history. They have shared these stories with the viewers of the long-running C-SPAN author-interview program, Booknotes. Here are some of the best. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x History |v Anecdotes. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Authors, American |v Interviews. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Lamb, Brian, |d 1941- | |
| 730 | 0 | |a Booknotes (Television program) | |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i c418d26d-f3de-4bfb-9181-2aeb14407d7c |l 830850 |s US-MNMHCL |m booknotesstories_from_american_history_____________________________________2001_______publia___________________________________________________________________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i c418d26d-f3de-4bfb-9181-2aeb14407d7c |l u524934 |s US-MNR |m booknotesstories_from_american_history_____________________________________2001_______publia___________________________________________________________________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i c418d26d-f3de-4bfb-9181-2aeb14407d7c |l 536125 |s US-MNRHSLC |m booknotesstories_from_american_history_____________________________________2001_______publia___________________________________________________________________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i c418d26d-f3de-4bfb-9181-2aeb14407d7c |l 36989 |s US-MNTNR |m booknotesstories_from_american_history_____________________________________2001_______publia___________________________________________________________________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 830850 |s ISIL:US-MNMHCL |i Hennepin County Library |t BKS |a mchs apbn--- |c E178.6 .B645 2001 |b 32088036110366 |x a21 |y 5049849 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 830850 |s ISIL:US-MNMHCL |i Hennepin County Library |t BKS |a mchs apbn--- |c E178.6 .B645 2001 |b 31972100599615 |x a21 |y 616897 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l u524934 |s ISIL:US-MNR |i Rochester Public Library |t BKS |a NONFICTION |c 973 B6441B |d DEWEY |b 0101807641218 |x A-NONFIC |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 536125 |s ISIL:US-MNRHSLC |i Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO) |t BKS |a au |c 973 BOO |b 0100303345639 |x 21d |y 0100303345639 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 536125 |s ISIL:US-MNRHSLC |i Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO) |t BKS |a shats |c 973 BOO |b 0105300278535 |x schbk21 |y 0105300278535 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 536125 |s ISIL:US-MNRHSLC |i Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO) |t BKS |a win |c 973 B724 |b 0102704215783 |x 21d |y 0102704215783 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 36989 |s ISIL:US-MNTNR |i Northwest Regional Library |t BKS |a RED_LAKE_FALLS Main |c 973 BOO |b 35500003084710 |x Book |y 35500003084710 |p LOANABLE |