Trial by Television and Other Encounters

Politics & Social Sciences

STRAIGHT,Michael

Politics & Government

Devon Pr

One family — but not just any family: one of America’s first families, whose lives were intimately and indelibly intertwined with the basic fabric of this country. Powerful but altruisic, artistic yet activist, a family whose story is the history of mid-twentieth-century America. 
"On Green Spring Farm" is a memoir — a series of short anecdotal vignettes, based on journal entries — chronicling two decades of our American history. Unifying the tales is the ever-present backdrop of what is now known as Green Spring Gardens Park, a public garden and Manor House in Virginia. The stories range from the back-room politics of Democratic campaigns for Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson and the founding of the American Veterans Committee, to Jackie Kennedy’s "appropriation" of a family portrait of James Monroe to beautify her White House — all interspersed with colloquial family tales of pets, vacations, illnesses, theatricals and hair-raising misadventures in small aircraft. 
"On Green Spring Farm" provides a window onto another time and place, through which we witness history as experienced by one unusual family. Evocative, charming, funny, rousing and thought-provoking: a Samuel Pepys for our time.

On Green Spring Farm: The Life and Times of One Family in Fairfax County, Virginia, 1942-1966

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

My Desert Storm Diary

History

Unknown, Author

Military

Dear Rachel: The Civil War Letters of Daniel Peck

Americas

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