The American story : conversations with master historians /
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the s...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
- Introduction by David M. Rubenstein
- Jack D. Warren Jr. on George Washington
- David McCollough on John Adams
- Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson
- Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton
- Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin
- Cokie Roberts on founding mothers
- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln
- A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh
- Jay Winik on Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Jean Edward Smith on Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Richard Reeves on John F. Kennedy
- Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement
- Robert A. Caro on Lyndon B. Johnson
- Bob Woodward on Richard M. Nixon and executive power
- H. W. Brands on Ronald Reagan
- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on the U.S. Supreme Court.