Fame-Dropping (eBook)

Five Decades of Encounters with the Eminent

James C. Humes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
218 Seiten
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7080-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, James C. Humes candidly accounts all the famous people he has met over the past fifty years, including Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Kennedy, and Truman, Sir Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Shirley MacLaine, John Updike, Ezra Pound, and many others.

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Fame-Dropping is a bit like name-dropping, but when your guide is historian James C. Humes, you can expect something more than just trivial details about celebrities. A former White House speechwriter and Pennsylvania state legislator, the author commands powers of persuasion that have opened doors into the lives of the world's most influential men and women.Fame-Dropping zooms in for a close-up while offering you a front-row seat for viewing history's big picture. Rich with insight, and told in a lively, self-deprecating style, this book contains tales of a gregarious ghostwriter who has met countless notables - from star performers to those who wield power behind the scenes, in Hollywood, Washington, and beyond. Learn, laugh, and enjoy with a "e;well-traveled political junkie"e; and Churchill biographer as he witnesses Richard Nixon's informal side, dances with a young and radiant Queen Elizabeth II, and watches Margaret Thatcher tear up a speech he'd just written. Come and join Sir John Gielgud at the bar for cocktails, dine in Washington with McGovern's Hollywood supporter Shirley MacLaine, and find out what the guests found hanging in Pamela Harriman's powder room. At once intimate and grounded in a historian's wider perspectives, Fame-Dropping invites you to come closer and listen in, as you take a whirlwind tour of world events with the man who was welcomed everywhere.

Autor

James C. Humes has written speeches for Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, George H. W. Bush, and Reagan. He has practiced the art of public speaking as an attorney, lecturer, diplomat, and Pennsylvania state legislator.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: The White HouseChapter 2: Capitol HillChapter 3: State HouseChapter 4: State DepartmentChapter 5: City HallChapter 6: Buckingham PalaceChapter 7: ParliamentChapter 8: LibraryChapter 9: HollywoodChapter 10: StadiumChapter 11: Press BoxChapter 12: PentagonChapter 13: Foreign CapitalsChapter 14: CourthouseChapter 15: ChurchChapter 16: Art GalleryChapter 17: LyceumBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex of Names

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Biography • Celebrities • political figures
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-7080-6 / 0761870806
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-7080-7 / 9780761870807