{"product_id":"9781480445994","title":"The Center: People and Power in Political Washington","description":"\u003cb\u003eA portrait of Washington politics during one of the most turbulent eras in American history by the twentieth century’s premier US government insider.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e During his three decades as a journalist and political pundit for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, Stewart Alsop covered many of the defining historical events of mid-to-late twentieth-century America, from the post–World War II boom and the Red Scare to the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and the Vietnam War. In \u003ci\u003eThe Center\u003c\/i\u003e, Alsop provides a perceptive, provocative, and marvelously erudite insider’s view of the American political landscape of the 1960s, reporting from the beating heart of Washington, DC, the power center of the Western world.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With an unblinking eye and razor-sharp intellect, Alsop cogently explores an arena of unbridled political power and influence that spans from the White House to Capitol Hill to the Supreme Court. He offers remarkable insights into the motivations and very human foibles of the key figures behind some of the century’s most momentous events: Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, CIA Director Richard Helms and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, among many others.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Center \u003c\/i\u003eis a must-read for anyone interested in American politics and how the system got us to where we are today.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126366683376,"sku":"9781480445994","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480445994_p0.jpg?v=1769894080","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480445994","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}