Alan Brinkley
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Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century. As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working...
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2012
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English
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John F. Kennedy was a new kind of president. Forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961, he personified what he called the "New Frontier" as the United States entered the 1960s. But the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend. Kennedy's life, and his violent and sudden death, reshaped our view of the presidency. Brinkley gives us a full picture of the man, his times, and his enduring legacy.