by David Nasaw
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1: Cecil Stoughton, White House Photographs, from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Nasaw is the author of Andrew Carnegie, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, awarded the New-York Historical Society Prize in American History, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, winner of the Bancroft Prize for history and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
ALSO BY DAVID NASAW
Andrew Carnegie
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements
Children of the City: At Work and at Play
Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States