| | | | | TimesTalks - Making Sense of the Past Author: Richard Reeves, Edmund Morris, and Jill Abramson
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Audio Length: 1 hour and 12 min.
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Publisher's Summary: Richard Reeves, author of President Nixon: Alone in the White House, is an author and syndicated columnist who has made a number of award-winning documentary films. His ninth book, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, now considered the authoritative work on the 35th president, was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 1993 by Time magazine. A recipient of the 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Mr. Reeves writes a column that appears in more than 100 newspapers. He is a former chief political correspondent for The New York Times.Edmund Morris's biography, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, won the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980. After spending several years as President Reagan's authorized biographer, he published the national best seller Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in 1999. In the fall of 2001 Mr. Morris published Theodore Rex, the second volume of a projected trilogy on the life of the 23rd president. Theodore Rex won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and was listed on The New York Times best seller list for 13 weeks. Jill Abramson was appointed Washington Bureau Chief of The New York Times in December 2000. Ms. Abramson won the National Press Club Award for national correspondence in 1992 for political coverage of money and politics. In a discussion of the presidents they have studied and those they have known first-hand, Reeves and Morris offer their opinions on presidential style and substance, comparing our current president with those of the past in their approaches to war, history, decision-making and other major issues. Morris, who observed President Reagan day-to-day in the White House, shares some wonderful insider stories and offers his opinion on Reagan's lucidity during his presidency. |
