Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
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ISBN: 0375406441 / Publisher: Knopf, November 2003
The late journalist offers profiles of the Washington insiders with whom he has worked; accounts of some of the stories he has covered, including the assassination of President Kennedy and D-Day; and reminiscences of his career.
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Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider himself could have given us: Franklin D. Roosevelt counting out enough cigarettes to get through a half-hour debriefing with the press; May Craig, the first female reporter to penetrate Roosevelt's inner sanctum, who never failed to remind the president that his wife was a newspaper writer, too; Theodore Bilbo, a Mississippi senator and race baitor who effectively became mayor of Washington at a time when it was a segregated provincial town; Jimmy Hoffa, the popular and ill-fated union leader; Lyndon Johnson, whom Brinkley describes as the most impressive and appalling figure he encountered; and Ronald Reagan, whom he found to be the most mysterious of the eleven presidents he covered. Here is also Brinkley's account of President Kennedy's assassination and a poignant remembrance of D-day.
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