Haynes Johnson (1931–2013)

Autore di Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years

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Hanyes Bonner Johnson was born in 1931 in New York City. He earned his bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri and his Master's in American History from the University of Wisconsin. Johnson served as a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Johnson won a mostra altro Pulitzer Prize for distinguished national reporting in 1966 for his coverage of the civil rights crisis in Selma, Alabama and he is widely regarded as one of the nation's top political commentators. Haynes Johnson was the author or editor of a number of books including bestsellers "Sleepwalking Through History", "The Bay of Pigs", "The Landing", and "The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election". He died on May 24, 2013; he was 81. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Comprende i nomi: Haynes Johnson, Haynes Johnson, Haynes B. Johnson, Haynes Bonner Johnson

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Opere di Haynes Johnson

Popolari Recenti

Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years (1991) 296 copie

The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years (2001) 199 copie

The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism (2005) 169 copie

The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election (2009) 164 copie

The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point (1996) 136 copie

The Bay of Pigs: The Leaders' Story of Brigade 2506 (1964) 79 copie

Divided We Fall: Gambling With History in the Nineties (1994) 75 copie

Herblock: The Life and Works of the Great Political Cartoonist (2009) — Introduzione — 34 copie

Lyndon (1973) 19 copie

The Landing: A Novel of Washington and World War II (1986) — Autore — 14 copie

The working White House (1975) 13 copie

In the Absence of Power: Governing America (1980) 12 copie

Fulbright; the dissenter (1969) 10 copie

The Unions (1971) 6 copie

Army In Anguish (1972) 2 copie

Dusk at the Mountain 1 copia

Best of Times 1 copia

Bay of Pigs 1 copia

La Baie des Cochons (17 avril 1961) 1 copia

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Opere correlate

Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Collaboratore — 217 copie

The Presidential Transcripts (1974) — Collaboratore — 142 copie

As We Live and Breathe: The Challenge of Our Environment (1971) 57 copie

The Fall of a President (1974) — Collaboratore — 44 copie

On the waterfront : the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles that inspired the classic movie and transformed the New York… (2005) — Prefazione — 39 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale: Johnson, Haynes Bonner
Data di nascita: 1931-07-09
Data di morte: 2013-05-24
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: New York, New York, USA
Luogo di morte: Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Istruzione: University of Missouri
University of Wisconsin
Attività lavorative: journalist
professor
Relazioni: Johnson, Malcolm (father)
Organizzazioni: Washington Star
The Washington Post
University of Maryland
Premi e riconoscimenti: Pulitzer Prize (National Reporting, 1966)

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The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism di Haynes Johnson

One can only imagine while reading this what Haynes Johnson would think about where we are in 2023 as we cycle yet again through a difficult period of time for the U.S., followed by an increase in right-wing character assassination and authoritarianism.

The book itself is an easy read, very narrative in nature. It lays out the roots of McCarthyism and traces those threads into what was the present at the writing of the book, post 9/11.

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byl_strother | 4 altre recensioni | Apr 18, 2024 |

The System: The American Way of Politics at the… di Haynes Johnson

pick up with chapter 7

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pollycallahan | 1 altra recensione | Jul 1, 2023 |

The Bay of Pigs - The Leaders Story of Brigade 2506 di Haynes Johnson

The "Bay of Pigs" was the invasion of Cuba sponsored by the CIA and the US government in 1961, during John F. Kennedy's presidency. The goal of the invasion was to overthrow Fidel Castro's "communist" regime and re-establish a government that the US could control. History has judged the invasion as a disaster in every way -- ineptly conceived, badly planned and underfunded, with a small contingent of disaffected Cubans who could not possibly have achieved their military objective. Worst of all, they were implicitly promised US military support by the CIA, support that was never provided. Further, Castro knew the rebels were coming and his troops were waiting for them; and those invaders who weren't killed were captured and imprisoned. The fiasco was a public relations disaster for the US and for the Kennedy administration, and helped set the stage for the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962.

Haynes Johnson's reconstruction of the Bay of Pigs invasion was published in 1964, when the episode was still raw. It drew heavily on first- hand accounts provided by the invaders themselves, who naturally were bitterly resentful of how they had been used. Thus it offers a useful historical perspective that benefits from the immediacy of the events recounted. It was left to later accounts to offer a fuller portrayal of what was behind the invasion. Rather than being planned by low level CIA agents, we now know that the invasion had high level support throughout the US government, in administrations of both Eisenhower and Kennedy. A more complete (and more dispassionate) account can be found in Jim Rasenberger's "The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of the Bay of Pigs," among other recent sources.… (altro)