Hugh Sidey (1927–2005)
Autor(a) de Portraits of the Presidents: Power and Personality in the White House
About the Author
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 mais interviewer in the popular PBS television series The American President. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Hugh Sidey
TIME: Hugh Sidey Profiles the Presidents: From FDR to Clinton with TIME Magazine's Veteran White House… (2001) 17 exemplares
The White House Remembered, Volume 1 (Recollections By Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter & Ronald Reagan (2005) 5 exemplares
1000 Ideas for Better News Pictures 2 exemplares
Associated Works
Remembering Jack: Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys (2003) — Commentary — 116 exemplares
Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F. Kennedy : Summer 1945 (1995) — Introdução — 55 exemplares
The Memories--JFK, 1961-1963, of Cecil Stoughton, the President's Photographer, and Major General Chester V. Clifton,… (1973) — Narrador, algumas edições — 48 exemplares
The Thirty-first of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson's Final Days in Office (2005) — Introdução — 25 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Sidey, Hugh
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-09-03
- Data de falecimento
- 2005-11-21
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Greenfield, Iowa, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Paris, France
- Educação
- Iowa State University (Iowa State College)
- Ocupações
- journalist
- Organizações
- Life
Time
Creighton University
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 17
- Also by
- 10
- Membros
- 425
- Popularidade
- #57,429
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 9
- ISBN
- 19
- Línguas
- 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.… (mais)