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Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him “America’s new past master.” His most recent books are The Quiet World, The Wilderness Warrior, and The Great Deluge. Six of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.
 



 

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The Quiet World
The Quiet World
Douglas Brinkley
  • Trade PB
  • 9780062005977
  • 12/20/2011
  • $18.99 ($21.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
The Wilderness Warrior
The Wilderness Warrior
Douglas Brinkley
  • Trade PB
  • 9780060565312
  • 5/4/2010
  • $19.99 ($19.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
The Great Deluge
The Great Deluge
Douglas Brinkley
  • Trade PB
  • 9780061148491
  • 7/31/2007
  • $17.95 ($22.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
Douglas Brinkley
  • Trade PB
  • 9780060565305
  • 5/23/2006
  • $13.95 ($17.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc Unabridged CD
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc Unabridged CD
Douglas Brinkley
  • Audio
  • 9780060759599
  • Reader: Douglas Brinkley
  • Media: CDs
  • 5/31/2005
  • $29.95 ($39.95 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
Parish Priest
Parish Priest
Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster
  • Hardcover
  • 9780060776848
  • 1/10/2006
  • $24.95 ($28.95 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
Parish Priest
Parish Priest
Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster
  • Trade PB
  • 9780060776855
  • 3/13/2007
  • $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
Parish Priest Unabridged CD
Parish Priest Unabridged CD
Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster
  • Audio
  • 9780060853402
  • Reader: Julie M. Fenster
  • Media: CDs
  • 1/10/2006
  • $29.95 ($34.95 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
Parish Priest LP
Parish Priest LP
Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster
  • Large Print
  • 9780060853488
  • 1/24/2006
  • $24.95 ($28.95 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
Tour of Duty
Tour of Duty
Douglas Brinkley
  • Trade PB
  • 9780060565299
  • 9/21/2004
  • $14.95 ($18.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 

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Cronkite
Cronkite
Douglas Brinkley , (None)
  • E-Book
  • 9780062196637
  • 5/29/2012
  • $19.99
Cronkite Abridged CD
Cronkite Abridged CD
Douglas Brinkley , (None)
  • Audio
  • 9780062212665
  • Reader: George Guidall
  • Media: CDs
  • 5/29/2012
  • $39.99 ($43.99)
 

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"A majestic biography. . . . Cronkite is evidence that a job can be done just about perfectly. That goes for the man and this exceptional biography."


- The New York Times Book Review
"An ambitious and deeply researched biography. . . . Cronkite magically transports the reader to a bygone era. . . . Recounted here in detail, with scholarly grasp and smooth narrative flow, are the familiar milestones and more obscure regions of Cronkite's life. In these pages, we get to know Cronkite with the intimacy we always wished for when watching him on TV. . . . Cronkite brims with funny and telling anecdotes about this larger-than-life figure who helped shape the Information Age."


- The Boston Globe
"With the style and precision worthy of his subject, Douglas Brinkley's biography of the late Walter Cronkite gives the icon his due. . . . A keen, fair-minded book."


- The San Francisco Chronicle
"Walter Cronkite exemplified the glorious age of trusted journalism, and rightfully so. He was a sensible and decent man. In this deeply researched and brilliantly analytic biography, Douglas Brinkley captures his essence. He treats Cronkite as not just an icon, but as a real human with passions, loves, and occasional enmities. It's a fascinating and valuable tale."


—Walter Isaacson
"The personal and professional life of Walter Cronkite is an American treasure - and we should all be grateful to Douglas Brinkley for telling it so well."


—Tom Brokaw
"Cronkite's career has vast scope, and cumulative effect of this book is illuminating, not only about the man himself but also about the way he filtered history for a nation."


- Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"With the style and precision worthy of his subject, Douglas Brinkley's biography of the late Walter Cronkite gives the icon his due. . . . A keen, fair-minded book."


- The San Francisco Chronicle
"A sweeping and masterful biography."


- Newsweek
"Like all of Brinkley's books, Cronkite thrives on the author's preternaturally smooth prose and stellar organization."


- The Austin American-Statesman
"An ambitious and deeply researched biography. . . . Cronkite magically transports the reader to a bygone era. . . . Recounted here in detail, with scholarly grasp and smooth narrative flow, are the familiar milestones and more obscure regions of Cronkite's life."


- The Boston Globe
"Informative and engaging. . . . Brinkley transforms the two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional person in his sterling new biography."


- The Hollywood Reporter
"Cronkite is meticulously reported and sourced and is alternately admiring and critical."


- The Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Informed, wide-ranging, clear, accessible. . . . This richly detailed and impeccably researched biography brings you into a vivid life,. . . . A thorough, even-handed and illuminating work that goes beyond image and myth about the broadcast legend for a full, frank and fascinating portrait."


- Newsday