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"It was my luck to learn from Jerry Moriarity what integrity in journalism is all about." Lloyd Schermer, former president of Lee Enterprises"Should you be travelling to this area in October or November, I would enjoy a visit."-Ex-President Richard NixonJerry Moriarity lived in the glorious era of newspapering and had a love affair with newspapers and the printed word. After more than forty interviews and photo opportunities with the last eleven presidents, Moriarity began to imagine the ideal U.S. President. These topics created his study of the presidents, his hobby for the last fifty years. "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio interviewed Moriarity five times on because of a Nixon editorial he wrote.This book is not solely about presidents, but includes other interviews he has had during the years. He has interviewed and photographed many important people such as Senator Barry Goldwater, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, John Glenn, Haile Selassie, Meredith Willson, Edward Ellis, Cornel Wilde, Errol Flynn, Walter Mondale, etc. He has added a few human-interest stories such as when U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy removed a cigar from Moriarity's mouth and dunked it in his coffee. ... Read more

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Good pictures and good interviews of presidents and others
Jerry Moriarity wrote this book with excellent pictures of presidents and wonderful reports including little insights about each of the last eleven presidents. His lifetime of reporting has given readers a great resource about recent presidents and the White House as well as many other people such as Meredith Willson ("The Music Man"), Walter Mondale, Haile Selassie, Errol Flynn, Cornel Wilde, and on and on.

A Great Man
This book was written by our grandpa. We are so proud of him. He has had an amazing career and this has been a lifelong goal. His stories are amazing. I'm sure you'll enjoy the book. ... Read more

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This work is a collection of articles, interviews and excerpts from journalists, historians, and associates of Nixon's, of views of both people who admired him and those who feverishly despised him. These viewpoints give a rounded account of his still controversial figure. ... Read more

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Scrutinizes the lasting impact of the Nixon presidency
Compiled, organized and edited by Russ Witcher (Assistant Professor of Journalism, Tennessee Tech University), Articles, Interviews, And Book Excerpts (1976-2000) On Richard Nixon's Legacy is a series of articles drawn from magazines such as "Time," "Newsweek," "U.S. News & World Report," and others, arranged in date ranging from the late 1970's to 2000. Each article scrutinizes the lasting impact of the Nixon presidency as revealed through journalism. Essays, insights and more offer a diverse and highly recommended historical cross-study of a complex American political figure, including both his failings as well as his most notable achievements. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Saturday Evening Post, published by Saturday Evening Post Society on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1073 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The other George W.: first in war and first in peace, our first President was far more complex than popular histories would have us believe, and perhaps the greater for it.(George Washington)
Author: Tait Trussell
Publication: Saturday Evening Post (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Saturday Evening Post Society
Volume: 278Issue: 1Page: 32(2)

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The story of Barack Obama's journey to the presidency. This 144-page, hard-cover, full-color book collects the best writing and photographs from McClatchy's Washington Bureau and its 30 newspapers. It presents one of the most compelling portraits ever of this unprecedented election from the country's third largest newspaper company.

Includes an introduction by Julian Bond, and more than 25 final Inauguration photographs. Plus the president's full inaugural address, and his signature on his first piece of business - a proclamation.

The book's title comes from Obama's speech on race given in Philadelphia: "I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible."

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* Contains 144 pages and measures a large 9 ¾ x 11 ½ inches, hard-cover with dust jacket, and full-color throughout.
* Coverage begins before the primaries, looks at the presidential debates and key issues, and includes the Inauguration in January.
* Includes all 30 newspapers' front pages from the day following the election in an extraordinary gallery.
* Features McClatchy's best news-writing, analysis and commentary, plus hundreds of vivid photographs.
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This book was published in 1891.

EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK:

On the morning of the eighth of June, 1893, at about
ten o clock, crowds were seen clustered in front of
the daily newspaper bulletins in New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Boston. The ex-
citement rivalled that occasioned by the assassina-
tion of Garfield, and by night the country was as
bewildered and aghast as when the news came that
Lincoln was murdered. This was the announcement
as it appeared in blood-red, gigantic capitals by the
door of the New York Tribune building :

UNPRECEDENTED CALAMITY !
AWFUL MYSTERY !

THE PRESIDENT AND HIS WIFE SPIRITED AWAY FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE !

TWO SERVANTS FOUND GAGGED !

NOT A TRACE OF THE DISTINGUISHED COUPLE !

THE COUNTRY AGHAST AT THE DREADFUL POSSIBILITIES
OF THIS DISAPPEARANCE !

Extras found enormous sales, but they contained
no more news than this. Business was brought to
a standstill and stocks fell in half an hour from
five to twenty per cent. The land was convulsed.
It was true that there were those who thought the
whole thing a colossal hoax perpetrated by the
defeated party. But as time went on the startling
and incredible news was confirmed. The evening
edition of the New York Sun had these ominous
headers.

THE PRESIDENT AND HIS WIFE HAVE ACTUALLY DIS-
APPEARED.

THE GAGGED SERVANTS OF THE WHITE HOUSE TELL
THEIR STORY.

THEY ARE IN PRISON ON GRAVE SUSPICION OF CON-
SPIRACY.

THE CARD OF AN EMINENT POLITICIAN FOUND IN THE
VESTIBULE OF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION.

IS A DARK POLITICAL PLOT ABOUT TO BE UNEARTHED ?

The next day found the situation unchanged.
Humors of every description ran wild. Tele-
grams of condolence from all the sovereigns of the
world were received at Washington by the dazed
Department of State. These were fully given to
the omnivorous press. By order of the Vice-Pres-
ident, all other news was for the present rigorously
withheld from publication. To this censorship the
press submitted cordially. Mystery was brooding
over the land, and despair laughed detectives in the
face. Men met each other and asked only this
question :

" Have they been found ? "

A sad shake of the head always followed.

" No wonder," the Governor of Massachusetts was
heard to say, " with thousands of assassins coming
over here every year. Even our President was not
safe. God help our country ! " ... Read more

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An introduction to the grizzly bear's physical features, habitat, life cycle, relationships with other animals, threats they face, and related facts. ... Read more

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On September 3, 1783, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay signed the definitive Anglo-American peace treaty. Adams and his colleagues strived to establish a viable relationship between the new nation and its largest trading partner but were stymied by rising British anti-Americanism.

Adams’ diplomatic efforts were also complicated by domestic turmoil. Americans, in a rehearsal for the later Federalist-Antifederalist conflict over the United States Constitution, were debating the proper relationship between the central government and the states. Adams, a Federalist as early as 1783, argued persuasively for a government that honored its treaties and paid its foreign debts. But when bills far exceeding the funds available for their redemption were sent to Europe, he was forced to undertake a dangerous winter journey to the Netherlands to raise a new loan and save the United States from financial disaster.

None of the founding fathers equals the candor of John Adams’ observations of his eighteenth-century world. His letters, always interesting, reveal with absolute clarity Adams’ positions on the personalities and issues of his times.

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First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas' opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaunde's reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. Covering the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both the government and the rebels, the book shows how the tightly organized insurgency forced itself upon an unwilling society just after the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime.

One of Peru's most distinguished journalists, Gustavo Gorriti first covered the Shining Path movement for the leading Peruvian newsweekly, Caretas. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and an impressive array of government and Shining Path documents, he weaves his careful research into a vivid portrait of the now-jailed Shining Path leader Abimael Guzm‡n, Belaunde and his generals, and the unfolding drama of the fiercest war fought on Peruvian soil since the Chilean invasion a century before. ... Read more

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Not for beginners, uneven, but valuable testimony
The book by Gorriti I call an account rather than a history, because it conveys the movement in medias res, published in 1990 as the SL prepared to assault the capital, well before the 1992 capture of Guzmán and the persecution of Gorriti.In a 1998 preface, he briefly describes how, when president (elected in 1990) Alberto Fujimori staged a coup in 1992, he was arrested for his investigational journalism into the president and his `Creole Rasputin'-right before the arrest of Comrade Gonzalo. Gorriti managed to escape, files spirited out of the country too, and wound up in Panama working for its paper La Prensa. There, in 1996, he again faced his enemies as that government threatened him after he exposed a campaign financed by a Colombian drug cartel. He lived in his office for weeks, so as to foil police plans for his deportation. He emerged victorious, determined to uphold-in what he calls `cosmetic democracies', a free press.

At the time Gorriti compiled his tale of the SL, he had intended it as part of a three-volume work on the Peruvian Communist Party and its many alphabet-soup off-brands. This shows, as I was instantly immersed into a detailed narrative of unions, strikes, police machinations, and bureaucratic-to me-trivia. The book is probably not the first place to go for a quick introduction to the situation into which Sendero Luminoso stumbled. Gorriti clearly addresses an audience more familiar than I was with his country. Still, the gifts of his journalistic verve carried me through pages of departmental decisions into powerful chapters that highlighted the deadly nature of Guzmán's millenarian blend of Lenin, Marx, Mao, and messianic apocalypse that plunged-literally-much of his nation into darkness and resulted in at least 70,000 deaths, half of these at the hands of those who claimed to liberate the people from their imperialist oppressors. Half of these at the hands of those who claimed to protect the people from their revolutionary oppressors.

This is Gorriti's achievement. Eschewing the glib slogans of the left and the harsh vows of the right, he tracks the rise of the Shining Path from a few students tossing dynamite-a commodity readily nicked from the mines-to police reprisals and the spread of societal breakdown across the Andes and into, as the book ends, the edges of the city. What the history lacks is a context for foreign readers into which Guzmán and his ilk can be placed. Not even his birthdate is given; we know nothing here about his early schooling, what kind of a doctor he was, or how José Carlos Mariátegui founded the PCP, apparently in the 1930s. This information, which any academic editor would insist upon in a conventional manuscript, is, I assume, assumed by Gorriti not to matter or to be common knowledge to his Peruvian audience. Robin Kirk (who has written a lefty's view of Perú, The Monkey's Paw) translates what, given my knowledge of Spanish, I presume carries the uneven rhythms of the original prose, with its leaden `he said, she said' reports from within the corridors of power as well as its nearly cinematic vignettes of attacks and reprisals from the front.

Given these drawbacks, nonetheless, the uneasy mixture of dry minutiae about police intelligence sloshes against a potent additive. Excellent analyses of Sendero rhetoric and the emergence of his death cult demolish naive leftist praise for this deadly insurgency; on the other hand, the reprisals that the Senderos provoked and received resulted in innocents being taken with the guilty--and the two sometimes becoming blurred.

The energy with which he describes the attacks by the guerrillas on the Ayacucho police stations, the torture of suspects, the funerals of officers and cadets, the rain on a tin-roofed shanty where a teenaged girl guerrilla shows her interviewers the marks of her abuse by her captors: all of these vignettes unforgettably inscribe themselves on your memory.

(Edited from a review article, "No Escape from the Anthill" at the on-line Belfast journal The Blanket)

Definitive Account of Shining Path
Gorriti's account of how Abimael Guzman and his astoundingly savage cohort found enough followers to convulse Peru for a decade is detailed and authoritative.It is also wonderfully free of the dense prose and meandering sentences which plague so much serious writing on Latin America.This book is indispensable for anyone attempting to understand how savage Maoism found purchase in the Andes. ... Read more

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"If I did not laugh occasionally I should die," Lincoln is said to have told his cabinet, "and you need this medicine as much as I do." Now in paperback, this volume gathers the best unpublished and uncollected work on Lincoln by Benjamin P. Thomas, widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln, who provides a balanced portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history. ... Read more

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When people struggle to comprehend how it was that BillClinton became the first American president put throughimpeachment proceedings in over a hundred years, they willinevitably--like it or not--have to confront a set of telephoneconversations between a confused young woman (distraught at the end ofa prolonged emotional and sexual relationship with the leader of thefree world, conducted in furtive encounters in his office) and thecoworker who claimed to be her friend but was surreptitiously tapingevery phone call (either to feed information to parties hostile toClinton or gather material for her own book deal). Those tapeseventually found their way into the hands of Independent CounselKenneth Starr, who became so hot and bothered by their contents thathe launched a grand jury investigation into Clinton's relationshipwith Lewinsky and the way he handled their "breakup."

For anybody who clings to the notion that the impeachment trial ofWilliam Jefferson Clinton represents a noble struggle over the idealsof democratic leadership, The Tripp/Lewinsky Tapes is a bracingdose of reality. From the hours and hours of intimate "girl talk"between Tripp and Lewinsky, producer Geoffrey Giuliano has culled 90minutes of bathetic highlights. If Tripp's recordings are the rawstuff of history--as Giuliano's introduction posits--they're also areminder that the American history taught in most classrooms is anidealistic fairy tale. (Running time: 1.5 hours, 1 cassette) --Ron Hogan ... Read more

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Great, Imformative, and Just Great
Great listen.If you want to hear juicy things about the most famous presidency, just buy this.It is great.Geoffrey did a great job on the writing, narrative, editing..everything.Just get it, listen to it, and listen again.The closest thing you will get to the court room

Thanks Geoff!

Good for listening in the car!
I just let this run continuously when driving in my car. I bet I've listened to it 25 times already!The details are unbelievable.Linda was a real _itch to do this to a "friend" but it's a good thing she did or that A-hole never would have been caught.Monica talks in intimate detail about her affair with Bill...dates, places, activities, etc.There are 22 hours of tapes in all; this is just the best parts. Makes you want to say to Ms Tripp "get a life!" but it's a great listen!!

Now YOU Can Hear Tripp and Lewinsky!
I was practically upsest with getting this tape. And the results - awesome! You finally get to hear Tripp and Lewinsky in their own words! I've never been so please. 5 stars all the way!!!

Extremely interesting listening!!!
While I do not endorse Linda Tripp taping her former friend, Monica Lewinsky, I was interested to hear the conversations that they had about Monica's affair with Bill Clinton.It was amazing to me that Linda wouldbetray her one-time friend the way she did, pretending to try and"help" Monica find out who it was who "ratted" on her. While all along, it was Linda Tripp herself who leaked the information out! It really makes you wonder....can anyone really be trusted in this world?? Is someone taping my conversations??

IT WAS NO STARR REPORT
YOU CAN NEVER REALLY KNOW HER UNLESS YOUR HER FRIEND, SHE CAN BE INTERVIEWED BUT IT IS NOT THE REAL HER........THIS IS! ... Read more

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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A simple introduction to why we celebrate Presidents' Day. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University LibraryÕs preservation reformatting program. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. ... Read more