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Product Details

  • File Size: 1240 KB
  • Print Length: 259 pages
  • Publisher: Open Road Media (June 7, 2016)
  • Publication Date: June 7, 2016
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B01EIVWK9K
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4.0 out of 5 starsRelive the turbulent Sixties through the eyes of Alsop.
By Sigmund Freud on June 7, 2016
Format: Kindle Edition
The Center is a must-read for anyone interested in American politics during the 1960s. Alsop knew Washington like no other. He was at his desk for so many significant events in American life at the time such as the Vietnam War, the murders of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago, and the riots in many American cities. You get it all here in THE CENTER. Alsop was a skillful and incisive commentator and it here for you to enjoy and to learn.
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2.0 out of 5 starsInsider Political Articles from 1960s
By SeattleBookMama on June 7, 2016
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Alsop’s book is a collection of essays describing Washington, DC as it was in the 1960’s. Everything here was written then, so it’s a chance to jump back in time and see what the media—and this reporter in particular-- thought was appropriate for mainstream Americans reading the news of the day. I was invited to read and review this book thanks to Open Road Integrated Media and Net Galley in exchange for this honest review. I always hate to pan a book when I’ve been invited; it sounds as if I am insulting the host after eating at his table. However, the truth is the truth, and I see this title as fitting a narrow niche audience, but not so much the general public.

Alsop takes us back to the time that the USSR was a country and looked as if it was going to stay that way. He refers to Latvia and Estonia as former countries. Journalists that are female are referred to as “lady reporters”, and sodomy was still a crime on which the journalist frowned and assumed we would, also. He refers to justices of the Supreme Court and elsewhere as men, and with the assumption that this also is according to nature and will never change.

Perhaps the most chilling aspect of this collection is the chummy way he refers to the Miranda case, in which it was determined that those about to be charged with a crime had to be told that they had the right not to speak against themselves and to have an attorney. He explains that most of the court’s decision making was done in restaurants and over the phone long before they ever met, and so this case was “almost certainly” decided before the justices ever met in chambers.

This reviewer’s father-in-law is a retired judge that served many ethical decades for the State of Oregon, ending his career on the State Court of Appeals.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAlsop Examines Washington
By David Sugarman on October 1, 2012
Format: Hardcover
Stewart Alsop's portrait of political Washington gets off to a fast start in chapter one on the floor on the Senate with his account of a disturbing scene in which Senator Herbert Lehman nervously asks Senator Joe McCarthy for evidence of one of his charges of Communist influence in the State Department. McCarthy contempuously orders Lehman to return to his seat and old Lehman sadly retreats. Through Alsop's revealing narrative the reader can almost hear McCarthy stripping Lehman of his manhood. It's the one chapter all New Yorkers need to read.
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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting perspective on the time period
By Casey Wheeler on June 8, 2016
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I received a free Kindle copy of this book courtesy of Net Galley and Open Road Multimedia, the publisher. It is with the understanding that I will post a review on Net Galley, Amazon, Goodreads and my blog. In addition, I have also posted the review on my Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus pages.

I requested this book as I am interested in the political history of the United States. This is the first book by Stewart Alsop that I have read.

This book written in the late 1960's offers an interesting perspective on what was happening in Washington, DC during the Lyndon Johnson years with flashbacks to earlier times. The book is definitely an opinion piece and has greater meaning if the reader is a student of American history in particular to the time periods covered in the book. While the time period was interesting, the book itself tended to lag at times.

I recommend this book for those who have an interest in opinions about what transpired in Washington during the Lyndon Johnson years.
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4.0 out of 5 starsInteresting takes on members of JFK's best and
By lewis c/o braude on June 7, 2016
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This is a treat...a journalist's view of Washington in a gentler more civil time that really does put you at the centre of power...Interesting takes on members of JFK's best and brightest
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