2017, ISBN: 9781594203763

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New York: Random House, 1999. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. Fair/Good. 659 pages. Signed by author. Some damage and staining at rear cover and several back pages. Kurt Andersen (b… Mehr…

New York: Random House, 1999. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. Fair/Good. 659 pages. Signed by author. Some damage and staining at rear cover and several back pages. Kurt Andersen (born August 22, 1954) is an American novelist. Andersen is the author of three novels, including Turn of the Century, which was a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book of the year, and Heyday, which won the Langum Prize for the best American historical fiction of 2007. His third novel, True Believers was published in 2012. Andersen has also published a book of humorous essays, The Real Thing, about "quintessentialism", and co-authored two humor books, Tools of Power, a parody of self-help books on becoming successful, and Loose Lips, an anthology of edited transcripts of real-life conversations involving celebrated people. In 2017 he wrote Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, which attempts to explain American society's peculiar susceptibility to illusions. In his brilliant first novel, media insider Kurt Andersen casts a penetrating eye on our giddy, media-obsessed era. With a keen sense of irony and a storyteller's grace, the author weaves a tale that is at once a biting satire of America in the near future and a wickedly incisive portrait of marriage, family, love, and friendship. A crackling, cybercharged joyride through our millennium, Turn of the Century is pure, eye-popping entertainment. The millennium is here. George and Lizzie are a Manhattan power couple with three kids in private school. Lizzie owns a software start-up. George is a TV producer. With cell phones tickling their thighs and gossip buzzing in their ears, their future couldn't be brighter. Until all the glitter and the hype threaten to destroy George's and Lizzie's sanity and their marriage. Until the only thing that can save them is a little understanding--at a time when everyone is talking but no one can hear a thing., Random House, 1999, 2.25, New York, New York, U.S.A. : Penguin, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In this magisterial new work THE PATRIARCH, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Nasaw-the only biographer granted unrestricted access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library-tracks Kennedy's astonishing passage from East Boston outsider to supreme Washington insider. Kennedy's seemingly limitless ambition drove his career to the pinnacles of success as a banker, World War I shipyard manager, Hollywood studio head, broker, Wall Street operator, New Deal presidential adviser, and founding chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His astounding fall from grace into ignominy did not come until the years leading up to and following America's entry into the Second World War, when the antiwar position he took as the first Irish American ambassador to London made him the subject of White House ire and popular distaste. THE PATRIARCH is a story not only of one of the twentieth century's wealthiest and most powerful Americans, but also of the family he raised and the children who completed the journey he had begun. Of the many roles Kennedy held, that of father was most dear to him. The tragedies that befell his family marked his final years with unspeakable suffering. THE PATRIARCH looks beyond the popularly held portrait of Kennedy to answer the many questions about his life, times, and legacy that have continued to haunt the historical record. Was Joseph P. Kennedy an appeaser and isolationist, an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer, a stock swindler, a bootlegger, and a colleague of mobsters? What was the nature of his relationship with his wife, Rose? Why did he have his daughter Rosemary lobotomized? Why did he oppose the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, and American assistance to the French in Vietnam? What was his relationship to J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI? Did he push his second son into politics and then buy his elections for him? In this pioneering biography, Nasaw draws on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and friends to tell the life story of a man who participated in the major events of his times: the booms and busts, the Depression and the New Deal, two world wars and a cold war, and the birth of the New Frontier. In studying Kennedy's life, we relive with him the history of the American Century. Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Biography or Autobiography (2013), Mark Lynton History Prize Nominee (2013), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Biography (2012), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2013) .As new, unread, first edition, first printing,, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.868 pp, with Index. *Packed carefully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in described conditon. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} bios1/ A86, Penguin, 2013, 5<

2012, ISBN: 9781594203763

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be unread/untouched. Spine and binding is tight. Dust Jacket is pristine with Mylar protecting it. Signed by the author, D… Mehr…

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be unread/untouched. Spine and binding is tight. Dust Jacket is pristine with Mylar protecting it. Signed by the author, David Nasaw on title page. First Edition print. In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and friends, Nasaw tells the story of a man who participated in the major events of his times: the booms and busts, the Depression and the New Deal, two world wars and the Cold War, and the birth of the New Frontier. In studying Kennedy's life, we relive the history of the American century."Riveting...The Patriarch is a book hard to put down...As his son indelibly put it some months before his father was struck down: 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your county.' One wonders what was going through the mind of the patriarch, sitting a few feet away listening to that soaring sentiment as a fourth-generation Kennedy became president of the United States. After coming to know him over the course of this brilliant, compelling book, the reader might suspect that he was thinking he had done more than enough for his country. But the gods would demand even more." - New York Times Book ReviewThank you for supporting Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Familes! To learn more, please visit www.casapacifica.org, Penguin Press HC, The, 2012-11-13, 5<

ISBN: 9781594203763

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Penguin Press. Used - Good. . Former Library book.. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business., Penguin Press, 2.5<

2012, ISBN: 9781594203763

Gebundene Ausgabe

Penguin Press. Some light bumping and rubbing to the wrapper. Otherwise clean. Signed by the Author on the title page with sticker signifying on the front jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover.… Mehr…

Penguin Press. Some light bumping and rubbing to the wrapper. Otherwise clean. Signed by the Author on the title page with sticker signifying on the front jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover. 2012., Penguin Press, 2012, 3<