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Douglas Brinkley received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. While a professor at Hofstra University on Long Island, Brinkley had the brilliant idea of taking a class of undergraduates across America by bus, stopping at historic sites and literary landmarks along the way, while reading classic novels and listening to classic rock. The students visited the home of William Faulkner, met the writer William Burroughs, and listened to Brinkley lecture in situ--all for course credit. This amazing journey became his book THE MAJIC BUS. Brinkley has written standard historical studies of figures such as Dean Acheson and James Forrestal, and biographies of Bill Clinton and Rosa Parks. He taught for several years at the University of New Orleans, and that experience informs his post-Katrina book, THE GREAT DELUGE. Brinkley is one of America's more popular and public historians, writing for magazines, appearing on television, and speaking on NPR. His vision of American history is generous and wide-reaching: he has edited the journals of Jack Kerouac, the letters of Hunter S. Thompson, and the diaries of Ronald Reagan.


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100 Days in Photographs 100 Days in Photographs Pivotal Events That Changed the World by Nick Yapp ( 2007)

More than three hundred photographs from the archives of Getty Images and National Geographic capture one hundred days that represent pivotal moments of the past 150 years, including Lincoln's assassination, the 1929 Wall Street crash, Kristallnacht, Chernobyl, September 11, and other events and personalities who shaped the world. 125,000 first printing.
36 Days 36 Days The Complete Chronicle of the 2000 Presidential Election Crisis by New York Times Company ( 2001)

Provides a day-by-day summary of events during the post-election fight for the White House, beginning with the television networks who prematurely declared a winner in Florida and ending with the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended the recount and decided the presidency.
America Day by Day America Day by Day by Simone De Beauvoir ( 2000)

Beauvoir's four-month trip to America in 1947 is chronicled in these journal entries. She travels across the country, meets her lover Nelson Algren in Chicago, visits American universities, and responds to the American landscape with enthusiasm.
American Heritage History of the United States American Heritage History of the United States by Douglas Brinkley ( 1998)

For more than four decades, American Heritage's reputation for engaging, impeccably researched historical journalism has made it one of the most respected names in American story-telling. In that same tradition of quality comes the American Heritage History of the United States, an entirely new work of history which is a worthy successor to the American Heritage New History of the Civil War and the American Heritage New History of World War II. In this rich and inspiring book, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States--a nation formed from a vast wilderness of mountains and streams on whose fringes a few small colonies made a bold cast at freedom, then burgeoned into an expanding democracy, and ultimately flourished as a world power. From the first primitive maps outlining a New World to the faded daguerreotypes of young men in uniforms standing beside Confederate flags; to pictures of hopeful immigrant families arriving at Ellis Island; to the stirring photographs of Civil Rights marchers; to the terrible images of the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing--the history of America offers a stunning album of people and events.
American Ruins American Ruins by Christopher Woodward ( 2007)
Argentina Argentina What Went Wrong by Colin M. MacLachlan ( 2006)
The Atlantic Charter by Douglas Brinkley ( 1994)

In August 1941 Churchill and Roosevelt met in a secluded bay off the coast of Newfoundland. It was the first of their wartime meetings and in many respects the most significant. The document that was created at that meeting, the Atlantic Charter, proclaimed the two leaders' vision of a new world order, a set of principles that would govern international relations with the coming of peace. This remarkable collection of essays is the result of an international conference of American, British, and Canadian scholars held at Memorial University of Newfoundland that marked the fiftieth anniversary of the historic meeting. The essays discuss both the Charter's formulation and its long-term significance and provide fascinating perspectives on the Second World War and its aftermath.
The Boys Of Pointe Du Hoc The Boys Of Pointe Du Hoc Ronald Reagan, D-day, And The U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion by Douglas Brinkley ( 2005)

Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley brings the riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the President, forty years later, who paid them homage.

U.S. and British warships poised in the English Channel had eighteen targets on their bombardment list for D-Day morning. The 100-foot promontory known as Pointe du Hoc -- where six big German guns were ensconced -- was number one. Under the bulldoggish command of Colonel James E. Rudder of Texas, these elite forces -- "Rudder's Rangers" -- took control of the fortified cliff. The liberation of Europe was under way.

Based upon recently released documents, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc is the first in-depth, anecdotal remembrance of these fearless Army Rangers. With brilliant deftness, Brinkley moves between two events four decades apart to tell the dual story of the making of Reagan's two uplifting 1984 speeches, considered by many to be among the best orations the Great Communicator ever gave.
The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc Ronald Reagan, D-day, And the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion by Douglas Brinkley ( 2006)

Draws on recently released documents from the Reagan Library archive to provide an in-depth account of the D-Day activities of the elite U.S. Army 2nd Rangers, recounting how they defended themselves for two days against Nazi counterattacks, in a volume that then describes President Reagan's fortieth-anniversary speech that commended their achievements. Reprint.
The Case of Abraham Lincoln The Case of Abraham Lincoln A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President by Julie M. Fenster ( 2007)

Documents the events surrounding a mid-nineteenth-century Springfield blacksmith's murder trial that would define Abraham Lincoln's legal career, evaluating how the case reflected the beliefs of the time and placed Lincoln in a national spotlight. Simultaneous.
The Case of Abraham Lincoln The Case of Abraham Lincoln A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President, Library Edition by Julie M. Fenster ( 2007)
The Case of Abraham Lincoln The Case of Abraham Lincoln A Story of Adultery, Murder and the Making of a Great President by Julie M. Fenster ( 2007)

Documents the events surrounding a mid-nineteenth-century Springfield blacksmith's murder trial that would define Abraham Lincoln's legal career, evaluating how the case reflected the beliefs of the time and placed Lincoln in a national spotlight. 50,000 first printing.
The Case of Abraham Lincoln The Case of Abraham Lincoln A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President by Julie M. Fenster ( 2008)
Dean Acheson Dean Acheson The Cold War Years 1953-71 by Douglas Brinkley ( 1994)

DEAN ACHESON is best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state, the American father of NATO, and a major architect of U.S. foreign policy in the decade following the Second World War. But Acheson also played a major role in politics and foreign affairs after his tenure in the Truman administration, as an important Democratic Party activist and theorist during the Eisenhower presidency and as a valued adviser during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. This engrossing book, the first to chronicle Acheson's postsecretarial career, paints a portrait of a brilliant, irascible, and powerful man acting during a turbulent period in American history. Drawing on the recently opened Acheson papers as well as on interviews with Acheson's family and with leading public figures of the era, Douglas Brinkley tells an intriguing tale that is part biography, part diplomatic history, and part politics. Brinkley considers Acheson's role in numerous NATO-related debates and task forces, the Berlin and Cuban missile crises, Vietnam War decision-making, the Cyprus dispute of 1964, the anti-de Gaulle initiative of the 1960s, and U.S.-African policy. He describes Acheson as a staunch anticommunist with a persistent Eurocentric focus, a man who was intolerant of American leaders such as George Kennan, J. William Fulbright, and Walter Lippmann for opposing his views, and who often feuded with JFK, LBJ, Robert McNamara, and Dean Rusk. Finally, angered at the activities of anti-Vietnam War liberal Democrats, Acheson found himself in 1969 serving as one of Nixon's most important unofficial foreign policy advisers. Throughout this time, Acheson stayed in the public eye, helped bythe six books he wrote after he left office (including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Present at the Creation), his television appearances, lectures, testimony before Congress, and correspondence with European statesmen. Brinkley's book illuminates Acheson as elder statesman and reveals how a unique individual was able to influence policy-making and public opinion without the official trappings of office.
Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy by ( 1993)
Driven Patriot Driven Patriot The Life and Times of James Forrestal by Douglas Brinkley, Townsend Hoopes ( 2000)

The World War II American secretary of the navy and later Cold War strategist is reveals as a brilliant but troubled man in this hard-hitting biography of a great American. Winner of the 1992 Roosevelt Naval History Prize. Reprint.
Etched in Stone Etched in Stone Enduring Words from Our Nation's Monuments by Ryan Coonerty ( 2007)
FDR and the Creation of the U.N FDR and the Creation of the U.N by Douglas Brinkley, Townsend Hoopes ( 1997)

In recent years the United Nations has become more active in - and more generally respected for - its peacekeeping efforts than at any other period in its fifty-year history. During the same period, the United States has been engaged in a debate about the place of the U.N. in the conduct of its foreign policy. This book, the first account of the American role in creating the United Nations, tells an engrossing story and also provides a useful historical perspective on the controversy. Prizewinning historians Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley explain how the idea of the United Nations was conceived, debated, and revised, first within the U.S. government and then by negotiation with its major allies in World War II. The experience of the war generated increasing support for the new organization throughout American society, and the U.N. Charter was finally endorsed by the community of nations in 1945. The story largely belongs to President Franklin Roosevelt, who was determined to form an organization that would break the vicious cycle of ever more destructive wars (in contrast to the failed League of Nations), and who therefore assigned collective responsibility for keeping the peace to the five leading U.N. powers - the major wartime Allies. Hoopes and Brinkley focus on Roosevelt but also present vivid portraits of others who played significant roles in bringing the U.N. into being: these include Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Dean Acheson, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, Thomas Dewey, Arthur Vandenberg, William Fulbright, Edward Stettinius, and Walter Lippmann. In an epilogue, the authors discuss the checkered history of the United Nations and consider its future prospects.
Fear and Loathing in America Fear and Loathing in America The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976 by Douglas Brinkley, Hunter S. Thompson ( 2000)

The second in a three-volume collection of letters by the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas spans the years between 1968 and 1976 and highlights his biting wit, scary powers of observation, and encounters with such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Gerald R. Ford Gerald R. Ford by Douglas Brinkley ( 2007)
The Great Deluge The Great Deluge Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley ( 2007)

Historian Douglas Brinkley, who lives and teaches in New Orleans, provides a comprehensive account of the events of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, as well as an analysis of the reasons why this natural disaster became a man-made tragedy. His detailed reporting of the hours and days before, during, and after the disaster seems to leave nothing out, and it is the human dimension, based on a huge number of interviews with survivors, responders, and officials that provides the often disheartening, but occasionally uplifting, aspect of the immense story.
The Great Deluge The Great Deluge Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, And the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley ( 2006)

An eye-opening, deeply personal account of hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath, the historical roots of the terrible storm, and the ongoing crisis confronting the region. Simultaneous.
A Hoosier Holiday A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser, Douglas Brinkley ( 1998)

By 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer with an international reputation, as well as a fixture on the New York literary scene. He had not been back to Indiana, his home state, in over twenty years when he was approached by his friend Franklin Booth, a respected and very successful artist, to make the trip together by automobile. The result is a narrative brimming with detail and the first modern work of American road literature, capturing the euphoric freedom to be found behind the wheel of a car.
Jazzocracy Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology by Douglas Brinkley, Kabir Sehgal ( 2008)
Jean Monnet Jean Monnet The Path to European Unity by Douglas Brinkley ( 1992)
John F. Kennedy and Europe by ( 1999)
Lost in Katrina Lost in Katrina by Mikel Schaefer ( 2007)
The Majic Bus The Majic Bus An American Odyssey by Douglas Brinkley ( 2003)

Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history, describes what happens when he loads a group of students onto a bus and takes them on the road for a six-week odyssey across America. Stopping at key spots along the way (Monticello, New Orleans, Graceland) and meeting with some remarkable cultural heroes (Bob Dylan, William S. Burroughs, and of course, Ken Kesey), Brinkley provides an unusual but no doubt memorable experience for the students in his course on American Studies.
The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation From the Louisiana Purchase to Today by Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas Brinkley, Sam Abell ( 2002)

Two leading historians and an award-winning photographer chronicle the rich history of America's great river and its role in the shaping of the American continent, journeying the entire length of the Mississippi from Delacroix Island, Louisiana to Itasca, Minnesota, to describe key figures and events as Mark Twain, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, and the birth of the Blues.
Mccarthyism in America by Douglas Brinkley, Sam Tanenhaus ( 2010)
Douglas Brinkley on the March on Washington by Douglas Brinkley ( 2009)
National Geographic Almanac of World History National Geographic Almanac of World History by Stephen G. Hyslop, Pat Daniels ( 2006)

An accessible reference, designed for the desk or personal library, provides authoritative maps, charts, and chronologies complemented by informative essays that cover all the major periods between the time of the Neanderthals and the nuclear age, as well as more than two hundred illustrations. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
Parish Priest Parish Priest Father Michael McGivney And American Catholicism by Douglas Brinkley, J. M. Fenster ( 2006)

A incisive portrait of a man ahead of his time profiles Father Michael McGivney, a Catholic priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus, who built a way for laymen to make a substantial and enduring contribution to their parishes and communities, and to the physical and spiritual security of their families. Simultaneous.
Parish Priest Parish Priest Father Michael McGivney And American Catholicism by Douglas Brinkley, J. M. Fenster ( 2006)

A incisive portrait of a man ahead of his time profiles Father Michael McGivney, a Catholic priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus, who built a way for laymen to make a substantial and enduring contribution to their parishes and communities, and to the physical and spiritual security of their families. (Biography & Autobiography)
Parish Priest Parish Priest Father Michael McGivney And American Catholicism by Douglas Brinkley, J. M. Fenster ( 2006)

A incisive portrait of a man ahead of his time profiles Father Michael McGivney, a Catholic priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus, who built a way for laymen to make a substantial and enduring contribution to their parishes and communities, and to the physical and spiritual security of their families.
Parish Priest Parish Priest Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism by Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster ( 2007)
The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History by Douglas Brinkley, Robert Rosenbaum ( 2003)

From Abington to Zimmerman, from the Mayflower Compact to the Enron Bankruptcy, this compact, accessible volume spans American history from its beginnings through 2002. Its 1,500 entires include articles on every presidential election through 2000, on every presidential administration through Clinton's , on the U.S. Supreme Court under eleven chief justices, and on landmark court cases from "Marbury v. Madison" to "Bush v. Gore."
Prejudice Across America Prejudice Across America by James Waller ( 2000)

A professor relates how he took his students on a cross-country bus trip with stops along the way designed to teach living examples of race relations in various settings. Included are extracts from journals kept by teacher and students.
The Reagan Diaries The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan ( 2007)

In Ronald Reagan's own words, these diary entries provide an up-close and personal account of how the 40th president viewed his daily life, public and private. His love of his wife, Nancy; his relations with world leaders; his acerbic view of the press; and his encounters with everyday Americans comprise this record of the thoughts of "the great communicator," as he was called, and the three thousand days that made history. Historian David Brinkley assembled these entries and provides commentary.
The Reagan Diaries The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan ( 2009)

Culled from his handwritten daily diaries, an account of the fortieth president's eight years in the oval office offers insight into his character as well as the behind-the-scenes factors that contributed to such events as his first inauguration and the end of the Cold War. 200,000 first printing. Reprint.
Rosa Parks Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley ( 2000)

This brief life of Rosa Parks--whose brave decision not to give up her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955 was one of the key moments in the Civil Rights movement--reexamines her life and times. Brinkley is a historian known and respected for making American history accessible and interesting while maintaining a high standard of scholarship.
Theodore Roosevelt Many-Sided American/Papers Presented at Conference, Hempstead, Long Island, New York, April 19-21, 1990 by Douglas Brinkley, Natalie A. Naylor, Theodore Roosevelt Conference ( 1992)
Tiburcio Carias Tiburcio Carias Portrait Of A Honduran Political Leader by Thomas J. Dodd ( 2005)
Tour of Duty Tour of Duty John Kerry and the Vietnam War by Douglas Brinkley ( )

Written by acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley, this is the first full-scale, intimate account of John Kerry's Navy career. Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with everyone who knew Kerry well in Vietnam. Kerry also entrusted to Brinkley his letters home and his voluminous "War Notes": journals, notebooks, and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war.

Throughout Tour of Duty Brinkley deftly deals with such explosive issues as U.S. atrocities in Vietnam and the bombing of Cambodia. In a series of unforgettable combat-action sequences, Brinkley recounts how Kerry won the Purple Heart three times for wounds suffered in action and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Navy's Silver Star for gallantry in action.

When Kerry returned home a highly decorated soldier, he joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, becoming a prominent antiwar spokesperson. He challenged the Nixon administration and as Kerry's public popularity soared, the FBI considered him a subversive. Brinkley reveals how White House aides tried to discredit Kerry. Refusing to be intimidated, Kerry ran for public office, eventually becoming a U.S. Senator. He never forgot his fallen comrades. Working with Senator John McCain, he returned to Vietnam numerous times looking for MIAs and POWs, becoming the leading proponent of "normalization" of relations with Vietnam. When President Clinton officially recognized Vietnam in 1995, Kerry's three-decade-long tour of duty had at long last finally ended.

The Unfinished Presidency The Unfinished Presidency Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House by Douglas Brinkley ( 1999)

A portrait of Jimmy Carter's career as a statesman and goodwill ambassador in the years following his presidency. Brinkley points out that Carter is widely perceived as having accomplished more, in terms of statecraft and diplomacy, as a private citizen than he did during his single term in the White House. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc The Boys of Pointe du Hoc Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion by Douglas Brinkley ( )

Acclaimed historian and New York Times best-selling author of Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley brings the riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the President, 40 years later, who paid them homage.

U.S. and British warships poised in the English Channel had 18 targets on their bombardment list for D-Day morning. The 100-foot promontory known as Pointe du Hoc, where six big German guns were ensconced, was number one. Under the bulldoggish command of Colonel James E. Rudder of Texas, these elite forces, "Rudder's Rangers", took control of the fortified cliff. The liberation of Europe was under way.

Based upon recently released documents, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc is the first in-depth, anecdotal remembrance of these fearless Army Rangers. With brilliant deftness, Brinkley moves between two events four decades apart to tell the dual story of the making of Reagan's two uplifting 1984 speeches, considered by many to be among the best orations the Great Communicator ever gave.

The Great Deluge The Great Deluge Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley ( )

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama.

First was the hurricane, one of the three strongest ever to make landfall in the United States, 150 mile per hour winds, with gusts measuring more than 180 miles per hour ripping buildings to pieces. Second, the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half million homes, creating the largest refugee crisis since the Civil War. Eighty percent of New Orleans was under water, and whole towns in southeastern Louisiana ceased to exist. And third, the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself.

In The Great Deluge, best-selling author Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the Category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view, while recognizing the true heroes.

Throughout the audiobook, Brinkley lets the Katrina survivors tell their own stories, masterfully allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina. The Great Deluge investigates the failure of government at each level and breaks important new stories. Packed with interviews and original research, it traces the character flaws, inexperience, and ulterior motives that allowed the Katrina disaster to turn the Gulf Coast into a scene from a war movie or a third-world documentary.

Parish Priest Parish Priest Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism by Douglas Brinkley, Julie Fenster ( )

Is now the time for an American parish priest to be declared a Catholic saint?

In Father Michael McGivney (1852-1890), born and raised in a Connecticut factory town, the modern era's ideal of the priesthood hit its zenith. The son of Irish immigrants, he was a man to whom "family values" represented more than mere rhetoric. And he left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world.

In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was widespread. Many Catholics struggled to find work and ended up in inferno-like mills. An injury or the death of the wage earner would leave a family penniless. The grim threat of chronic homelessness and even starvation could fast become realities. Called to action in 1882 by his sympathy for these suffering people, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that has helped to save countless families from the indignity of destitution. From its uncertain beginnings, when Father McGivney was the only person willing to work toward its success, it has grown to an international membership of 1.7 million men.

At heart, though, Father McGivney was never anything more than an American parish priest, and nothing less than that either; beloved by children, trusted by young adults, and regarded as a "positive saint" by the elderly in his New Haven parish.

In an incredible work of academic research, Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster re-create the life of Father McGivney, a fiercely dynamic yet tenderhearted man. Though he was only 38 when he died, Father McGivney has never been forgotten. He remains a true "people's priest", a genuinely holy man, and perhaps the most beloved parish priest in U.S. history. Moving and inspirational, Parish Priest chronicles the process of canonization that may well make Father McGivney the first American-born parish priest to be declared a saint by the Vatican.

Tour of Duty Tour of Duty John Kerry and the Vietnam War by Douglas Brinkley ( 2004)

Covering more than four decades, this is the first full-scale, definitive account of Kerry's journey from war to peace. Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry in Vietnam.Kerry also relegated to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam, voluminous "war notes" journals and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war. This material was provided without restriction, to be used at Brinkley's discretion, and has never before been published.

Throughout, Brinkley deftly deals with issues such as U.S. atrocities in Vietnam and the bombing of Cambodia. Using information from the newly released Nixon tapes, Brinkley reveals how White House aides Charles Colson and H. R. Haldeman tried to discredit Kerry. Refusing to be intimidated, Kerry ran for public office, eventually becoming a senator from Massachusetts. But he never forgot his fallen comrades returning to Vietnam numerous times to look for MIAs and POWs. When President Clinton officially recognized Vietnam in 1995, at long last Kerry's thirty-year-long tour of duty ended.
Vanishing America Vanishing America The End of Main Street by William H. Gass, Michael Eastman ( 2008)

A tribute to the disappearing architecture of mid-twentieth-century America is a visual tour of the nation's movie houses, roadside diners, and storefront churches that also celebrates some of the nation's most vernacular and idiosyncratic styles. 10,000 first printing.
Vibrations Vibrations A Memoir by David Amram ( 2001)
Voices of Valor Voices of Valor D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Douglas Brinkley, Ronald J. Drez ( 2004)

A compelling compilation of firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion presents forty remarkable oral histories that recount the events and experiences of D-Day from the perspectives of the veterans themselves, accompanied by a selection of interviews on CD. 75,000 first printing. History & Military Main. BOMC, Lit Guild, & Doubleday Feat.
War Letters War Letters Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by ( 2001)

A compelling compilation of previously unpublished war letters, encompassing every major conflict from the Civil War to Desert Storm, offers vivid accounts of famous battles, fierce declarations of love, reflections on the nature of warfare, and expressions of fear, loneliness, humor, patriotism, and anger during a time of war. (History)
The Western Paradox The Western Paradox A Conservation Reader by Douglas Brinkley, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Bernard Augustine De Voto ( 2001)
Wheels for the World Wheels for the World Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 by Douglas Brinkley ( 2003)

An evaluation of the impact of Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company on human civilization discusses the successes of early car models while noting specific ways in which automobile technology has affected industrial labor relations and America's middle class.
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites by Douglas Brinkley, Brian Lamb, John Splaine, Richard Norton Smith, Susan Swain, Anne Bentzel, Carol Hellwig, Karen Jarmon, C-Span (Television Network) ( 2003)

Some presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together this book, with assistance from the staff of C-SPAN. Heavily illustrated and with contributions from historians Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley, WHO'S BURIED IN GRANT'S TOMB? is about the presidents' lives as much as it is about their final resting places. The book's collection of the presidents' last words, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "I have a terrific headache" to John Adams's "Thomas Jefferson still survives" offers a poignant and sometimes humorous look at the last moments of the great men. This is a great way to encounter the presidents, from the great ones to the near-forgottens. WHO'S BURIED IN GRANT'S TOMB? belongs in the glove box of every traveler and the bedside table of every fan of the American presidency and American history.
The Wilderness Warrior The Wilderness Warrior Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley ( 2009)

Evaluates the role of FDR in launching modern conservationism, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon, Charles Darwin, and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values. First serial, Vanity Fair. 100,000 first printing.
Windblown World Windblown World The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 by Jack Kerouac ( 2006)

Excerpts and passages from the personal diaries of the great Beat writer chronicle a pivotal era in Kerouac's life, describing the creation of his first novel, The Town and City; his special friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady; and his own take on the events described in On the Road. Reprint.
Witness to America Witness to America An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today by ( 1999)

With material including excerpts from the diaries of John Adams, eyewitness accounts of slavery, and selections from recent events like the moon walk and Watergate, this classic collection will help define the United States as it sets out for the next millennium. Includes a 75-minute audio CD containing dramatic moments of our nation's past. 151 photos. 150 line illustrations.
World War II World War II The Allied Counteroffensive, 1942-1945 by ( 2003)

A collection of letters, diary excerpts, speeches, newspaper articles, song lyrics, and government archival materials bring to life the Allied counteroffensive during World War II, from the earliest days of the war to V-J Day, including Ernie Pyle's dispatches from Sicily, Truman's journal entries about his decision to drop the atomic bomb, and more.
Wilderness Warrior Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, 1858-1919 by Douglas Brinkley ( 2009)

Evaluates the role of FDR in launching modern conservationism, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon, Charles Darwin, and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values. First serial, Vanity Fair.
World War II World War II The Axis Assault, 1939-1942 by ( 2003)

A collection of fifty key documents on the movements of Axis forces throughout Europe and in the Pacific includes Winston Churchill's Blood and Toil speech, the text of the Atlantic Charter, FDR's cables to Japan in the hours before the Pearl Harbor attacks, and Edward R. Murrow's broadcast during the Blitz.
Kurt Vonnegut's Apocalypse Blues by Douglas Brinkley ( 2007)
The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway A Photographic History by William E. Griggs, Philip J. Merrill ( 2002)
Wilderness Warrior Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, 1858-1919 by Douglas Brinkley ( 2009)

Evaluates the role of FDR in launching modern conservationism, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon, Charles Darwin, and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values. (biography & autobiography).
The World War II Memorial The World War II Memorial A Grateful Nation Remembers by Douglas Brinkley ( 2004)

The stunning companion volume to America's long-awaited WWII Memorial.
Assuming its rightful place of honor on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial is an eloquent and moving tribute to "The Greatest Generation." Sixteen million Americans served in the armed forces—more than 400,000 gave their lives—and millions supported the war effort from home, all in the name of protecting that which we, as Americans, hold most dear: freedom.
The World War II Memorial, published in conjunction with the dedication of this long-overdue memorial, commemorates the everyday Americans who in countless ways rose up to defeat one of history's gravest threats to freedom. Veterans—including George H.W. Bush, Sen. Daniel Inouye, former senators Bob Dole and George McGovern, Yogi Berra, and many, many others—contribute their own personal stories while leading historians look at the military campaigns of the war. The memorial's architect and its sculptor provide insights into how it symbolizes the fortitude and perseverance of a generation, and the exclusive photographs present the memorial through all stages of construction. Fittingly, this historic tribute falls in the 60th anniversary year of D-Day, a time when our nation once again reflects on its greatest sacrifice and greatest victory in the name of freedom. 100 color and 125 b/w photographs.
Witness to America An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today by Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas Brinkley ( 2010)

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