Controversy : and other essays in journalism, 1950-1975 / William Manchester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manchester, William, 1922-2004, author.

Series:

William Manchester collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : RosettaBooks, LLC, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An in-depth journey through America and the world in the postwar years, from a New York Times -bestselling historian and biographer. Among his many accomplishments, William Manchester was especially known for his book The Death of a President, the award-winning account of the assassination of John F.Kennedy that embroiled him in a lawsuit filed by Jackie Kennedy. The title essay in this collection recounts the experience of publishing that book, and of his battle with JFK's widow. In addition, Controversy includes a wide range of journalistic pieces published in the period between World War II and Vietnam, covering McCarthyism to Watergate and highlighting the insights and observations of a distinguished career that earned the author the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, among other honors. "A work of love, even passion.... Mr. Manchester's final telling of the death of Kennedy is most moving." -Gore Vidal

Contents:

Controversy.

Mid campfires gleaming: The Spanish American War. The Great War. The island war. Corps d'elite. The man who couldn't speak Japanese.

Ways and means: The Treasury Department. The great bank holiday. Slum lord. The founding grandfather.

Americana: The tribal American. The New York Times. A slight case of McCarthyism. In defense of snobs.

Public men: Adlai in defeat. Walter Reuther. Cairo after Farouk.

Envoi: My old man, the last years of H. L. Mencken.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780795337475

0795337477

9780795335617

079533561X

9780795335631

0795335636

OCLC:

1051139798