Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America`s Soul, Baime A. J.
Автор: Baime A. J. Название: 100 Dream Cars: The Best of "my Ride " ISBN: 0847866238 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780847866236 Издательство: Rizzoli Рейтинг: Цена: 5219.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of stories profiling one hundred beautiful vehicles (and their owners) is the ultimate gift book for car lovers.
Автор: Baime, A J Название: The Accidental President ISBN: 0857503278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857503275 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tightly focused, meticulously researched and drawing on documentation not available to previous biographers, The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during this tumultuous, history-making four months - when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher .
Описание: A touching and absorbing portrait of one of the forgotten heroes of World War II . . . A. J. Baime has given us a memorable portrait not just of an industry going to war but of a remarkable figure who helped to make victory possible. "Wall Street Journal" As the United States entered World War II, the military was in desperate need of tanks, jeeps, and, most important, airplanes. Germany had been amassing weaponry and airplanes for five years the United States for only months. So President Roosevelt turned to the American auto industry, specifically the Ford Motor Company, where Edsel Ford made the outrageous claim that he would construct the largest airplane factory in the world, a plant that could build a bomber an hour. And so began one of the most fascinating and overlooked chapters in American history. Drawing on unique access to archival material and exhaustive research, A. J. Baime has crafted a riveting narrative that hopscotches from Detroit to Washington to Normandy, from the assembly lines to the frontlines, and from the depths of professional and personal failure to the heights that Ford Motor Company and the American military ultimately achieved in the sky. Wars are fought on many fronts, and A. J. Baime chronicles this little-known, but terrifically important battle to build America's bomber force with narrative zest and delicious detail. Put simply, it's a great read. Neal Bascomb, best-selling author of "The Perfect Mile" Fast-paced . . . the story certainly entertains. "New York Times" "
Автор: Baime, A.j. Название: Go like hell ISBN: 0593057953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593057957 Издательство: Transworld Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 2507.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the 1960s Enzo Ferrari emerged as the dominant force in sports cars in the world, creating speed machines that were unbeatable on the race track and moved one writer to say they `felt dangerous just to sit in`. In America, the Ford Motor Company was quickly losing ground as the pre-eminent brand.
Описание: " A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining."--Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
"A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color."--Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company
Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR's fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR's sudden death. The first four months of Truman's administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan, and finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.
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