Alan Brinkley
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Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century. As the founder of "Time," "Fortune, "and "Life" magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world.
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The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961-the youngest man ever elected to the office-and he personified what he called the "New Frontier" as the United States entered the...