American sketches
Subtitle: great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
By: Walter Isaacson.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781439180648; 9781439183441
Subjects: Isaacson, Walter; Biographers -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes; United States -- History -- Anecdotes
Genres: Biography; Anecdotes
Table of contents: title: My so-called writing life; title: Franklin and other Founders: Franklin and the art of leadership ; God of our fathers ; The opinions of mankind ; Best supporting actor ; A delicate balance; title: Statecrafters: McGeorge Bundy, the brightest ; Kissinger and the roots of realism ; He's back! ; Kissinger reappraised ; James Baker, wise man? ; Madeleine's war ; Colin Powell, the good soldier ; George Tenet and the instinct to please; title: Reagan and Gorbachev: We meet again ; The Gorbachev challenge ; Yes, he's for real ; Figuring out Ronnie; title: The Clintons: Fighting words ; I'm okay, you're okay; title: Albert Einstein: Einstein's God ; Creative thinker ; A new way to view science ; Einstein and the bomb ; Einstein's final quest; title: The age of the technology: In search of the real Bill Gates ; The passion of Andrew Grove ; Our century and the next one ; The Biotech Age ; Person of the century; title: Journalism: Luce's values, then and now ; Henry Grunwald ; Maynard Parker ; George Plimpton ; A bold, old idea for saving journalism; title: Interlude: Woody Allen's heart wants what it wants; title: New Orleans, mon amour: Green trees ; How to bring the magic back; title: The future restored.