Booknotes : stories from American history / [compiled by] Brian Lamb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamb, Brian, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--Interviews.

Authors, American.

United States--History--Anecdotes.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxii, 540 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Book notes

Place of Publication:

New York : Public Affairs, [2001]

Summary:

From C-SPAN comes a browsable gift book and bedside companion for history lovers. The third in the series of the bestselling "Booknotes" books, this one recounts great events in American history as told by the writers and historians who have appeared on the "Booknotes" program. of color photos.

Contents:

Revolution and Founding 1776-1815

Alfred F. Young on a Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party 3

Pauline Maier on Declaring Independence 9

Jack N. Rakove on Creating the Constitution 14

Robert Scigliano on The Federalist Papers 22

Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings 28

Roger G. Kennedy on the American and French Revolutions 32

Bernard A. Weisberger on the Contested Election of 1800 36

Arnold A. Rogow on the Hamilton-Burr Duel 41

Michael H. Cottman on the Slave Ship Henrietta Marie 46

The Young Nation 1815-1850

Joyce Appleby on the First Generation of Americans 53

Andrew Burstein on Celebrating Fifty Years of Independence 60

Harvey C. Mansfield on Tocqueville's Democracy in America 66

Slavery and the Civil War 1850-1865

Stephen B. Oates on the Buildup to the Civil War 73

James M. McPherson on Volunteer Soldiers 80

Drew Gilpin Faust on Women of the Slaveholding South 86

Joseph E. Stevens on the Events of 1863 93

James M. Perry on Civil War Correspondents 97

Brooks D. Simpson on Ulysses S. Grant's Military Career 104

Douglas L. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Lerone Bennett Jr., and Differing Perspectives on Abraham Lincoln 111

H. W. Crocker III, Tom Wheeler, and the Leadership of Robert E. Lee 118

William J. Cooper Jr. on Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy 125

Rebuilding America and the Gilded Age 1865-1901

Witold Rybczynski on Frederick Law Olmsted and the Building of Central Park 133

David Haward Bain on the First Transcontinental Railroad 139

H. Paul Jeffers on Grover Cleveland's Political Career 146

H. W. Brands on the Events of the 1890s 151

Ben Procter on William Randolph Hearst and the Rise of Yellow Journalism 157

Jean Strouse on J.P. Morgan, National Banker 164

Progressive Era and Reaction 1901-1929

Linda O. McMurry on the Crusades of Ida B. Wells 175

Dorothy Herrmann on the Celebrity of Helen Keller 179

Gina Kolata on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic 185

Emily Bernard on Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten 190

Edward J. Larson on the Scopes "Monkey" Trial 197

Robert A. Slayton on Al Smith and the 1928 Election 206

Larry Tye on Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations 212

A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh's Reluctant Public Life 219

Peter Collier on the Roosevelt Dynasty 227

Depression and War 1929-1945

David M. Kennedy on the Great Depression and World War II 237

Allen Weinstein on the Early Days of Soviet Espionage 245

Elizabeth M. Norman on the Nurses Captured on Bataan 251

Amity Shlaes on the Creation of the Withholding Tax 259

James Bradley on Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima 262

Tom Brokaw on the World War II Generation 269

Nicholas Lemann on the Great Black Migration 274

Sally Bedell Smith, David Brinkley, Peter Jennings, and Early Network News 280

Early Cold War 1945-1957

David Fromkin on Five Men Who Shaped the Post

World War II World 289

Christopher Matthews on the Unlikely Kennedy

Nixon Friendship 294

Jean Edward Smith on Lucius D. Clay and Postwar Berlin 300

Zachary Karabell on Truman Defeats Dewey 305

Arthur Herman on the Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy 313

Norman Podhoretz on the New York Intelligentsia 321

Social Transformation 1957-1975

Roy Reed on Orval Faubus and the Desegregation of Central High School 329

Robert Dallek on Lyndon Johnson and the 1960 Election 334

Jay Parini on Robert Frost and the Kennedy Inauguration 339

Donald Kagan on the Cuban Missile Crisis 344

Andrew Young on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail 349

Diane McWhorter on the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing 353

Ben Bradlee on the Kennedy Years 358

Arlen Specter on the Warren Commission 363

Jeff Shesol on the RFK-LBJ Feud 368

Anthony Lewis on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 375

Jon Margolis on Stories from 1964 382

Tinsley E. Yarbrough on John Marshall Harlan and the Warren Court 387

Leonard Garment on Getting to Know Richard M. Nixon 393

Charles V. Hamilton on the Life and Career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. 398

Elizabeth Taylor on Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Political Machine 404

Peter R. Kann and Frances FitzGerald on Reporting from Vietnam 410

Stuart I. Rochester on American POWs in Vietnam 417

The Culture Wars 1975-2000

Irving Kristol, Nina J. Easton, and the Rise of the Neoconservatives 427

Kiron K. Skinner on the Forgotten Radio Scripts of Ronald Reagan 439

John A. Farrell on the Political Lore of Tip O'Neill 444

Shelby Steele, Cornel West, Thomas Sowell, Randall Robinson: A Symposium on Race 451

Don Oberdorfer on the Reagan-Gorbachev Summits 459

Marlin Fitzwater on Reagan, Bush, and the Press 466

Bob Woodward on Planning the Persian Gulf War 473

John Podhoretz on the Last Days of the First Bush White House 477

Richard E. Cohen on Dan Rostenkowski's Fall from Power 483

Tim Russert on a Half-Century of Meet the Press 489

Bonnie Angelo on Modern Presidents' Mothers 495.

Notes:

Collection of essays by various authors based on interviews originally held on the television program Booknotes.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1586480839

OCLC:

47922872