Gerald C. Gardner
Autor de Pictorial History of Gone with the Wind
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Gerald C. Gardner
80 : from Ben Bradlee to Lena Horne to Carl Reiner, our most famous eighty year olds reveal why they never felt so… (2007) 21 copias
The Mocking of the President: A History of Campaign Humor from Ike to Ronnie (Humor in Life and Letters) (1988) 17 copias
The Quotable Mr. Kennedy 7 copias
Who's In Charge Here? 1966 4 copias
Looks Like a Landslide 3 copias
Speech Is Golden: How to Sell Your Wit, Wisdom, Expertise, and Personal Experience on the Local and National Lecture… (1992) 2 copias
Whose in charge here? 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1929-07-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Miembros
- 409
- Popularidad
- #59,484
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 26
- Idiomas
- 1
Published in 1988, this book is replete with anecdotes of gentle mockery leveled against presidents and presidential candidates. The presidents and presidential elections included range from the years of Dwight Eisenhower throuigh the years of JF Kennedy, LB Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush. The anecdotes number in the 1000s, and are taken from campaign speeches, talk show monologues, newspaper articles, editorials, and other sources. In each chapter, this account presents them skillfully as aspects of an ongoing story, and each is brief enough that the reader is no sooner through with one and s/he's on to the next.
US readers with long memories will find it enjoyable to revisit the political figures of yesteryear, since the anecdotes are quite entertaining. Meanwhile, those who have had to endure to the contemptible, vile insults and lies spread by a recent holder of the US presidency will likely yearn for the level of discourse of past decades, and an atmosphere that is nearly gone in the hate-filled partisan wrangles of today.… (más)