Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Five Ties Publishing
Keywords: book, inaugural, official, obama, barack
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0979472792
ISBN-13: 9780979472794

The only book commemorating Barack Obama’s historic Inauguration to be licensed by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book lavishly documents the entire inaugural week, from Obama’s “Whistle Stop” train ride to Washington to his first days in office. With exclusive access to inaugural events, former White House photographers David Hume Kennerly and Robert McNeely led a team of award-winning photojournalists to capture this historic celebration, from the vast crowd on the Mall to the grandeur of the President and First Lady taking their places on

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: crusade, america, roosevelt, theodore, warrior, wilderness
Number of Pages: 960
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0060565284
ISBN-13: 9780060565282

In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt’s most important legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Penguin Books
Keywords: life, parks, rosa
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-10-25
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0143036009
ISBN-13: 9780143036005

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 and devout woman from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama through her early involvement in the NAACP to her epochal moment of courage and her afterlife as a beloved (and resented) icon of the civil rights movement. Well researched and written with sympathy and keen insight, the result is a moving, revelatory portrait of an American heroine and her tumultuous times.

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: mississippi, gulf, coast, orleans, new, hurricane, katrina, deluge
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0061124230
ISBN-13: 9780061124235

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama. First came the hurricane, one of the three strongest ever to make landfall in the United States -- 150-mile- per-hour winds, with gusts measuring more than 180 miles per hour ripping buildings to pieces. Second, the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half millio

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: mississippi, gulf, coast, orleans, new, hurricane, katrina, deluge
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0061148490
ISBN-13: 9780061148491

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: years, war, cold, acheson, dean
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 1992-10-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0300047738
ISBN-13: 9780300047738

Acheson was President Harry Truman’s secretary of state, the American father of NATO and active in US foreign policy after World War II. He was also a Democratic Party activist in Eisenhower’s presidency and an advisor in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon eras. This charts his post-secretarial career.

Authors:Jack Kerouac, Douglas G. Brinkley,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: kerouac, jack, journals, world, windblown
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-04-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0143036068
ISBN-13: 9780143036067

Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the