Author: Wendy Wick Reaves
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836218138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Oliphant's Presidents is a unique presentation of some of the best of this artist's work--a review of artwork dating from 1964 and spanning more than 20 years, gauging the political peaks and valleys from LBJ and Vietnam to "Tricky Dick" and Watergate.
Oliphant's Presidents:
Author: Wendy Wick Reaves
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836218138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Oliphant's Presidents is a unique presentation of some of the best of this artist's work--a review of artwork dating from 1964 and spanning more than 20 years, gauging the political peaks and valleys from LBJ and Vietnam to "Tricky Dick" and Watergate.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836218138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Oliphant's Presidents is a unique presentation of some of the best of this artist's work--a review of artwork dating from 1964 and spanning more than 20 years, gauging the political peaks and valleys from LBJ and Vietnam to "Tricky Dick" and Watergate.
Seven Presidents
Author: Pat Oliphant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This collection of the artist's work covers Presidents LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton along with various other political characters.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This collection of the artist's work covers Presidents LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton along with various other political characters.
The Road to Camelot
Author: Thomas Oliphant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501105582
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A “provocative reconstruction of John F. Kennedy’s ‘five-year campaign’ for the White House” (The New Yorker), beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956 and culminating when he plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election. They hired Louis Harris to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms and they charmed. They turned the traditional party inside out. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates. Now “Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie, both veteran political journalists, retell the story of this momentous campaign, reminding us of now forgotten details of Kennedy’s path to the White House” (The Wall Street Journal). The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they’ve interviewed surviving sources, including JFK’s sister Jean Smith, and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. From the start of the campaign in 1955, “The Road to Camelot brings much new insight to an important playbook that has echoed through the campaigns of other presidential aspirants as disparate as Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The authors take us step by step on the road to the Kennedy victory, leaving us with an appreciation for the maniacal attention to detail of both the candidate and his brother Robert, the best campaign manager in American political history” (The Washington Post). “A must-read for fans of presidential history” (USA TODAY), this is “an excellent chronicle of JFK’s innovations, his true personality, and how close he came to losing” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501105582
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A “provocative reconstruction of John F. Kennedy’s ‘five-year campaign’ for the White House” (The New Yorker), beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956 and culminating when he plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election. They hired Louis Harris to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms and they charmed. They turned the traditional party inside out. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates. Now “Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie, both veteran political journalists, retell the story of this momentous campaign, reminding us of now forgotten details of Kennedy’s path to the White House” (The Wall Street Journal). The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they’ve interviewed surviving sources, including JFK’s sister Jean Smith, and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. From the start of the campaign in 1955, “The Road to Camelot brings much new insight to an important playbook that has echoed through the campaigns of other presidential aspirants as disparate as Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The authors take us step by step on the road to the Kennedy victory, leaving us with an appreciation for the maniacal attention to detail of both the candidate and his brother Robert, the best campaign manager in American political history” (The Washington Post). “A must-read for fans of presidential history” (USA TODAY), this is “an excellent chronicle of JFK’s innovations, his true personality, and how close he came to losing” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Baseball as a Road to God
Author: John Sexton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101609737
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101609737
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
Utter Incompetents
Author: Thomas Oliphant
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312385668
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Bestselling author, syndicated political columnist, and PBS commentator Oliphant explains how some of the smartest, most experienced, and politically savvy people in Washington ran the Bush administration into the ground.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312385668
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Bestselling author, syndicated political columnist, and PBS commentator Oliphant explains how some of the smartest, most experienced, and politically savvy people in Washington ran the Bush administration into the ground.
Leadership
Author: Pat Oliphant
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740726749
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An exhibition catalog features editorial cartoons satirizing George Bush, his staff, and American politics during the first seven years of his administration.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740726749
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An exhibition catalog features editorial cartoons satirizing George Bush, his staff, and American politics during the first seven years of his administration.
Kennedy and King
Author: Steven Levingston
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316267406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick "Kennedy and King is an unqualified masterpiece of historical narrative . . . A landmark achievement." -- Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Rosa Parks Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and 1963. These two men from starkly different worlds profoundly influenced each other's personal development. Kennedy's hesitation on civil rights spurred King to greater acts of courage, and King inspired Kennedy to finally make a moral commitment to equality. As America still grapples with the legacy of slavery and the persistence of discrimination, Kennedy and King is a vital, vivid contribution to the literature of the Civil Rights Movement.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316267406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick "Kennedy and King is an unqualified masterpiece of historical narrative . . . A landmark achievement." -- Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Rosa Parks Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and 1963. These two men from starkly different worlds profoundly influenced each other's personal development. Kennedy's hesitation on civil rights spurred King to greater acts of courage, and King inspired Kennedy to finally make a moral commitment to equality. As America still grapples with the legacy of slavery and the persistence of discrimination, Kennedy and King is a vital, vivid contribution to the literature of the Civil Rights Movement.
Jean Laffite Revealed
Author: Ashley Oliphant
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
ISBN: 9781946160720
Category : Lincolnton (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"Jean Laffite Revealed: Unraveling One of America's Longest Running Mysteries takes a fresh look at the various myths and legends surrounding the life and death of one of the last great pirates, Jean Laffite, exploring the theory that Laffite faked his death in the early 1820s and re-entered the United States under an assumed name. Beginning in New Orleans in 1805, the book traces Laffite through his rise to power as a privateer and smuggler in the Gulf, his involvement in the Battle of New Orleans, his flight to Galveston, Texas and eventual disappearance in the waters of the Caribbean, then picking up the trail as he makes a return into the country under a new identity. The tale follows Laffite's subsequent journey across the South and his eventual end in North Carolina, where he died in 1875 at the age of ninety-five. Backed up by thorough research and ample documentation, the book contradicts the prevailing thought about the disappearance and death of Laffite, making a compelling case that is sure to intrigue and inspire scholars and history buffs for many years to come"--
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
ISBN: 9781946160720
Category : Lincolnton (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"Jean Laffite Revealed: Unraveling One of America's Longest Running Mysteries takes a fresh look at the various myths and legends surrounding the life and death of one of the last great pirates, Jean Laffite, exploring the theory that Laffite faked his death in the early 1820s and re-entered the United States under an assumed name. Beginning in New Orleans in 1805, the book traces Laffite through his rise to power as a privateer and smuggler in the Gulf, his involvement in the Battle of New Orleans, his flight to Galveston, Texas and eventual disappearance in the waters of the Caribbean, then picking up the trail as he makes a return into the country under a new identity. The tale follows Laffite's subsequent journey across the South and his eventual end in North Carolina, where he died in 1875 at the age of ninety-five. Backed up by thorough research and ample documentation, the book contradicts the prevailing thought about the disappearance and death of Laffite, making a compelling case that is sure to intrigue and inspire scholars and history buffs for many years to come"--
Annals of a Publishing House
Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 6
Author: Linda H Peterson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129315
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129315
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.