His 2012 best-seller Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, is now in paperback. Beschloss (Author) 152 ratings Hardcover 11.34 7 Used from 7.00 4 New from 62.25 Paperback from 10.00 7 Used from 10.00 3 New from 52. Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham is an executive at Random House and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion, a biography of Andrew Jackson. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Krushchev, 1960-1963 Paperback 1 April 1992 by Michael R. No subject could be more important, and Beschloss paints it vividly and memorably. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, the men who held the power to plunge the world into Armageddon. An absorbing, sensitive account of the events that led to the rise of Soviet totalitarianism. The human drama behind the fall of the Romanovs.
This is the finest literary life that I have ever encountered. Scott Fitzgerald that - forgive the cliché - reads as compellingly as the best of Fitzgerald's own fiction. By the time the book closes, in the wake of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombings in Birmingham, Ala., and the assassination of President Kennedy, we've gotten as close to King and the people around him as readers possibly can. This first volume of Branch's three-part history of Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact opens unconventionally, with a portrait of Vernon Johns, King's forgotten predecessor. Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster, $24). With a passionate attention to human detail and a keen understanding of power, Isaacson and Thomas created an enduring portrait of a handful of World War II–era leaders who shaped the way we live now. I read this book when it was first published in the middle of the Reagan years. The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas (Simon & Schuster, $20).
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