Douglas Brinkley Books
Wheels for the World
By Douglas Brinkley, Douglas G. Brinkley
In this monumental work, one of our finest historians reveals the riveting details of Ford Motor Company’s epic achievements, from the outlandish success of the Model T and V-8 to the glory days of...
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Rosa Parks
Fifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful...
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Windblown World
By Jack Kerouac, Douglas G. Brinkley
Selections from Jack Kerouac’s journals of the late 1940s and early 1950s—the raw material for what became his classic novel On the Road, edited and with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley“A story...
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Dean Acheson and the making of U.S. foreign policy
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President Truman's Secretary of State (1949-1953), Dean Acheson was a crucial figure in the shaping of the postwar world. In an astonishingly creative and demanding tenure Acheson was involved to a...
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