Title Statements
- Full title :Name-dropping : from F.D.R. on / John Kenneth Galbraith.
Summary
"Drawing on a lifetime of access to many of the greatest public figures, Galbraith creates a rich and uniquely personal history of the century - a history he helped to shape. We are invited to hear FDR on the Great Depression and World War II, Albert Speer, the Third Reich's architect and armaments minister, on the boorishness and incompetence of the Nazi leadership; John F. Kennedy, from youth to the presidency; Jacqueline Kennedy's shrewd judgments of the White House inner circle. In this clear-eyed, unsparing, and amusing look back at the world and the people he has known, Galbraith tells what these leaders did - how they looked to him then and how they look to him now - with unforgettable reminiscences and a rich infusion of engaging anecdotes."--Jacket
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- Publication Date:1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Houghton Mifflin Co
- Place of Publication:Boston, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (194 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:ocn607898962
- LC Classification:HB119.G33
- Dewey Decimal:973.9/092/2
Table of Contents
On name-dropping -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, I: the New Deal -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, II: the war in Washington -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Albert Speer: the essential enemy -- Harry Truman -- and after -- Too madly for Adlai -- John F. Kennedy -- The Kennedy circle, Jacqueline Kennedy -- Jawaharlal Nehru -- L.B.J. -- Bowles, Ball, Harriman and the tyranny of policy -- Sketches on the larger screen.
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