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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen HessPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Brookings Institution Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.531kg ISBN: 9780815736998ISBN 10: 0815736991 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 30 October 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Eisenhower First Words Getting There First Politics, 1952 Enter Professor Moos Drafted The Eisenhower White House, 1958-61 The Staff The 1960 Election Speeches Remembering Ike Nixon Interregnum, 1961 The Harlow Miracle Working for Richard Nixon California, 1962 November 22, 1963 A Bookmaker Lincoln Week, 1966 Harvard, 1967-68 Miami Beach, 1968 The 1968 Campaign and Spiro T. Agnew Deputy Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs To HEW The White House Conference on Children A White House Conference on Youth What Next? Leave-Taking, 1972 Brookings Settling In Governmental Studies Things to Do Watergate Talk The Presidency Book Newswork Transitions Beth's List: A Summing Up September 11, 2001 Des Moines, Iowa, 1976 Kansas City, 1976 United Nations, 1974 and 1976 Make-A-Wish Foundation Campaign Etiquette Political Cartoons The Notorious RBG Hyman Rickover, Father of the Nuclear Navy, 1954 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1977 Richard Avedon, 1990 Oliver Stone, 1994 Former British Prime Minister John Major, 2009 Circles within Circles Afterword Thanks IndexReviewsMy favorite political question is 'Who was in the room?' Since the early years of the Cold War, 'Steve Hess' was a good bet for the answer. If his humility has made him an anachronism, this gold mine of a memoir will take him to his much-deserved role in history's spotlight. - Chris Matthews, host, Hardball with Chris Matthews; For decades Hess has been a go-to scholar for all things related to the U.S. presidency. His political erudition, historical knowledge, and sound judgment are legendary in official Washington. Bit Player is Hess's first-rate memoir of his years as the Sage of the Brookings Institution. Highly recommended! - Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University; author of Cronkite; I wonder how many young Washingtonians will care about the events and personages Hess writes about with such wit and style. They should buy a copy of Bit Player anyway. Reading it, they might discover a modesty, a disposition toward the privilege of living here, that will make their lives and ours less troublesome. - Andrew Ferguson, Commentary; Steve Hess has been anything but a 'bit player' in American politics over the past 60 years. From Ike to Nixon to Ford to, yes, Jimmy Carter and on to Reagan Steve was a key player behind the scenes. During that time and ever since, he has been an influential voice for what our politics used to be and could be again. I met Steve when I was a student at Harvard and he has always been great company. Read Bit Player and you will agree, as he takes you along for a rollicking ride through the twists and turns of Washington over the years. - Chris Wallace, host, Fox News Sunday; There's a surprise on every page of this delightful tale of a man who's managed to be at the center of the action in Washington from Eisenhower's time until now. Steve Hess has led an astonishing life that provides texture and background to the main turning points in the modern American story, and underscores why what happens in Washington matters. - Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor, PBS NewsHour There's a surprise on every page of this delightful tale of a man who's managed to be at the center of the action in Washington from Eisenhower's time until now. Steve Hess has led an astonishing life that provides texture and background to the main turning points in the modern American story, and underscores why what happens in Washington matters. --Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor, PBS NewsHour Steve Hess has been anything but a 'bit player' in American politics over the past 60 years. From Ike to Nixon to Ford to, yes, Jimmy Carter and on to Reagan--Steve was a key player behind the scenes. During that time and ever since, he has been an influential voice for what our politics used to be--and could be again. I met Steve when I was a student at Harvard and he has always been great company. Read Bit Player and you will agree, as he takes you along for a rollicking ride through the twists and turns of Washington over the years. --Chris Wallace, host, Fox News Sunday I wonder how many young Washingtonians will care about the events and personages Hess writes about with such wit and style. They should buy a copy of Bit Player anyway. Reading it, they might discover a modesty, a disposition toward the privilege of living here, that will make their lives--and ours--less troublesome. --Andrew Ferguson, Commentary For decades Hess has been a go-to scholar for all things related to the U.S. presidency. His political erudition, historical knowledge, and sound judgment are legendary in official Washington. Bit Player is Hess's first-rate memoir of his years as the Sage of the Brookings Institution. Highly recommended! --Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University; author of Cronkite My favorite political question is 'Who was in the room?' Since the early years of the Cold War, 'Steve Hess' was a good bet for the answer. If his humility has made him an anachronism, this gold mine of a memoir will take him to his much-deserved role in history's spotlight. --Chris Matthews, host, Hardball with Chris Matthews Author InformationStephen Hess is the author of numerous award-winning books about politics and the media, including The Presidential Campaign; The Ultimate Insiders: U.S. Senators in the National Media; The Washington Reporters; and Nixon: a Political Portrait, with Earl Mazo. The Brookings Press published Hess's books The Professor and the President in 2014 and America's Political Dynasties from Adams to Clinton in 2016. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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