Hugh Sidey (1927–2005)
Autor de Portraits of the Presidents: Power and Personality in the White House
Sobre El Autor
Hugh Sidey joined the LIFE magazine staff in 1955 & began reporting on the White House in 1957. He has been writing his column "The Presidency" for TIME since 1966. Sidey has served as the president of the White House Historical Association since 1998 & in 2000 was featured as the narrator & mostrar más interviewer in the popular PBS television series The American President. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Hugh Sidey
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Sidey, Hugh
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1927-09-03
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2005-11-21
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Greenfield, Iowa, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Paris, France
- Educación
- Iowa State University (Iowa State College)
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
- Organizaciones
- Life
Time
Creighton University
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Reseñas
A great collection of current affairs writing and anecdotes.
I loved the pictures but I don't think it represented the ethnicity that is now found in Iowa - 150 years should have helped us to realize that all of the people who live here have made an impact on the history of Iowa.
I loved the pictures but I don't think it represented the ethnicity that is now found in Iowa - 150 years should have helped us to realize that all of the people who live here have made an impact on the history of Iowa.
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- Obras
- 17
- También por
- 10
- Miembros
- 427
- Popularidad
- #57,179
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 19
- Idiomas
- 2
Missing is the underhand ways in which he came to power (i.e. Daley and Chicago), his links to unsavoury people and his extra-martial affairs (to put it politely - Trump's got nothing on JFK).
However, it's a very good essay of the presidency of John Kennedy. The book was completed prior to the assassination in Dallas, but this was included with little comment in the last few pages. It stood too close to the events of the previous three years to grasp to importance and weight of what the world was going through at the time. It's also unable to reflect on the missteps that were probably in relation to Vietnam - it was JFK that pulled USA and many other countries into the war.… (más)