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(0)Eric Burns
Author
Publisher
Perseus Running [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
“Infamous Scribblers” is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and renowned media historian Eric Burns tells of Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Sam Adams-the leading journalists among the Founding Fathers; of George Washington and John Adams, the leading disdainers of journalists; and Thomas Jefferson, the leading manipulator of journalists. These men and the...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleanor Roosevelt's loveless marriage with FDR was no secret, and she had a cold relationship with most of her family, as well. Yet she was a warm person, beloved by friends, and her humanitarian work still influences the world today. Burns shows how Eleanor was shaped by her father Elliott, a lost spirit with a bittersweet story. Brother to Theodore Roosevelt, Elliot would eventually succumb to alcoholism and would be exiled to the Virginia countryside....