[Vision2020] book recommendations

[Tom Hansen]

Two books that I have recently read (and will read again) and definitely
recommend . . .

 

1)  "Between You and Me - A Memoir" By Mike Wallace

 

A collection of interviews conducted by Mike Wallace, and the backgrounds
leading up to each interview, during his sixty-year career.

 

Interviews with:

 

- Concerning Presidents -

John F. Kennedy

Drew Pearson

Clark Clifford

 

- First Couples -

Eleanor Roosevelt

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Ronald and Nancy Reagan

 

- Race in America -

Eldon Lee Edwards

James Eastland

Orval Faubus

Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcolm X

Louis Farrakhan

 

- The Middle East -

Menachem Begin and Anwar sadat

Yasir Arafat

The Shah of Iran and the Ayatollah Khomeini

 

- Icons and Artists -

Margaret Sanger

Frank Lloyd Wright

Salvador Dali

Thomas Hart Benton

Itzhak Perlman

Vladimir Horowitz

 

- Con Men and Other Crooks -

Mickey Cohen

Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno

Joe Bananno

 

- The General and the Whistle-Blower -

General William C. Westmoreland

Jeffrey Wigand

 

- Valentines -

Shirley MacLaine

Vanessa Redgrave

Barbra Streisand

Tina Turner

 

- Other Celebrated Characters -

Marilyn Monroe

Norman Mailer

Arthur Miller

Johnny Carson

Mel Brooks

 

 

2)  "BOOM! - Voices of the Sixties" By Tom Brokaw

 

Personal reflections on the '60s and today.  Detailed backgrounds of the
accomplishments of the following people during the 1960s and what they have
become since then.  Broken down by chapter title.

 

"We Had a Dream"

Representative John Lewis and Julian Bond

Reverend Andrew Young

Tom Turnispeed

Reverend Thomas Gilmore

 

"The Fracture of 1968: The Noisy Masses Versus the Silent Majority"

Jeff Greenfield and Sam Brown

Mayor Richard M. Daley and William Daley

Pat Buchanan

 

"A Place Called Vietnam"

We Had to Destroy the Village: Captain Gene Kimmel and Dr. Les Gelb

Married to Vietnam: Tom and Nellie Coakley

Oh, Canada: Jeffry House

Semper Fi: Senator James Webb, Mike "Mac" McGarvey, and James Fallows

 

"A Woman's Place"

Nora Ephron

Gloria Steinem

Joan Growe

Muriel Kraszewski

Dr. Judith Rodin

Carla Hills and Joan Didion

Lissa Muscataine

 

"Something's Happening Here"

Dr. David Smith

Judy Collins

Arlo Guthrie and Tim Russert

Jann Wenner

Kris Kristofferson

Berry Gordy

Woody Miller

 

"A Dream Fulfilled and a Dream Deferred"

Charlene Stimley Priester and Ouida Barnett Atkins

Stan Sanders

Dr. Shelby Steele

Dr. Cleveland Sellers

 

"The Reagan Revolution and the Democrats Identity Crisis"

President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich

Senator George McGovern and Senatory Gary Hart

Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney

Pat Buchanan and Senator Hillary Clinton

 

"Second Thoughts and the Long view"

Sam Brown

Jeremy Larner

Carl Pope

Ed Crane

Dolores Huerta

 

"The War Without End"

David Cadwell

General Coliin Powell

General Wayne Downing

Senator John McCain

Senator Bob Kerrey

Senator Chuck Hagel

Dr. Charles Desmond

Ron Armella

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Peter davis

 

"I am Woman"

Jane Pauley

Anne Taylor Fleming

Linda Greenhouse

Dorothy Rabinowitz

Dr. Ruth Simmons

Dr. Susan Miller

 

"Like a Rolling Stone"

James Taylor

Paul Simon

Jann Wenner

Warren Beatty

Lawrence Kasden

Lorne Michaels

Dick Gregory

Tommy Smothers

Leonard Riggio

 

"The View from the Moon"

Garry Trudeau

Joan Baez and Don McLean

Yvon Chouinard and Douig Tompkins

Jack Weinberg

Stewart Brand

Captain Jim Lovell

 

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."

- Abbie Hoffman  

 

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