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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.542142
EAN: 9780060759599
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 0060759593
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 5
Publication Date: May 31, 2005
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Sales Rank: 889454
Studio: HarperAudio
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Product Description:
Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley brings the riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the President, forty years later, who paid them homage.
U.S. and British warships poised in the English Channel had eighteen targets on their bombardment list for D-Day morning. The 100-foot promontory known as Pointe du Hoc -- where six big German guns were ensconced -- was number one. Under the bulldoggish command of Colonel James E. Rudder of Texas, these elite forces -- "Rudder's Rangers" -- took control of the fortified cliff. The liberation of Europe was under way.
Based upon recently released documents, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc is the first in-depth, anecdotal remembrance of these fearless Army Rangers. With brilliant deftness, Brinkley moves between two events four decades apart to tell the dual story of the making of Reagan's two uplifting 1984 speeches, considered by many to be among the best orations the Great Communicator ever gave.
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When Brooklyn native Peggy Noonan heard that the rangers who had heroically scaled Pointe Du Hoc on June 6,1944 were going to be front and present at President Ronald Reagan's 40th anniversary speech marking D-Day, she had the perfect line in mind for Reagan to say, "These are the boys of Point Du Hoc." She had stolen the line from Roger Kahn's THE BOYS OF SUMMER. Historian Douglas Brinkley brilliantly combines Noonan, Reagon, Kahn and the boys of Pointe Du Hoc themselves into a swift and powerful ... Read More
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The author does a very unique job mixing the ability of Ronald Reagan to tell a story and the actual events that changed the world. The author skillfully explains how Reagan's amazing penchant for telling a story in the right way at the right time changed a nation a second time. I'm only 33 years old, but my father joined the Navy during the war, so I have an interest in the times. Yet I didn't realize the "Greatest Generation" had modestly shunned the war. That was until the 1980's when Reagan ... Read More
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Douglas Brinkley has written two books in one and both are wonderful.
The first is the inside story of Ronald Reagan's magnificent speech on the cliffs of Normandy in 1984. It was perfect political "theater" that ushered in a glowing fondness for the heroics of the WW2 effort by our "boys." Soon Americans were reading The Greatest Generation, seeing Saving Private Ryan, building a WW2 Memorial in Washington, asking uncles and fathers about their service, and now watching The War.
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Myths are important, but they should not be labeled history. 1. George Washington was not a great guerilla leader; he commanded conventional forces who fought in lines--just like the redcoats. Washington thought militia and irregulars were undisciplined and unable to face regular troops.
2. Ronald Reagan did not begin the nuclear "disarming" of the Soviet Union. Eisenhower and Kennedy tried, but (LBJ?) Nixon and Carter were able to bring the ABM treaty, the SALT treaties and he START treaties ... Read More
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I bought this book because I love Ronald Reagan and wanted to know more about these great speeches. This book provides all of the insights, including both of his D-Day speeches in the appendix section. It's interesting to hear how Peggy Noonan put the Pointe du Hoc speech together and the back and forth editing that goes on with presidential speeches. I was most impressed by how the story of Peter Zannata got into the speech. I always wondered how this happened and this book provides the information. ... Read More
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