Haynes Johnson (1931–2013)
Autor von 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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Johnson, Malcolm (father)
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- Pulitzer Prize (National Reporting, 1966)
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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.
The value of the book is more in the history of McCarthyism than in the final chapters about post-McCarthy politics and what we might look forward to in the future. No one in 2005 could foresee the advent of an Donald J. Trump. That said, I think Arthur Schlesinger's comment that while history doesn't repeat itself, it often rhymes was never truer than the parallels between McCarthy and Trump. Oddly enough both men shared Roy Cohn as an adviser.… (mehr)