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Books by Tom Wicker
  | | JFK and LBJ(Updated) The Influence of Personality Upon Politics by Tom Wicker Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1991 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-0-929587-59-2, ISBN: 0-929587-59-6 "In JFK and LBJ one of our most astute political observers examines two important events of the 1960s: why John F. Kennedy, the popular president, failed to push his legislative program through Congress, and why Lyndon B. Johnson, the consummate domestic politician, squandered his great consensus in an unpopular war in Vietnam. Tom Wicker's theme is that personality and circumstance dominate political life–that government consists chiefl ..." |
 | | A Time to Die The Attica Prison Revolt by Tom Wicker Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2011 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-215-5, ISBN: 1-60846-215-3 ""Superb."Kurt Vonnegut"Wicker's story though could not be more vital today… A Time To Die compels us to understand the inhumanity of prisons in America, one of the greatest injustices of our time, and of a state that has no compunction about murdering prisoners and jailers alike. Think Attica forty years ago, think Pelican Bay today. Then act."Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights"[A Time to Die's] lessons about ..." |
 | | Dwight D. Eisenhower(1st Edition) by Tom Wicker, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Milton Schlesinger, Hans Louis Trefousse Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2002 by Times Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-6907-5, ISBN: 0-8050-6907-0 ""I have been in politics ... most of my adult life. There's no more active political organization in the world than the armed forces of the United States." So said Dwight Eisenhower, the subject of journalist-novelist Tom Wicker's thoughtful--and often critical--Dwight D. Eisenhower, shortly after leaving the presidency.Eisenhower was never above politics, as his admirers claimed; Wicker shows that he was a political creature through an ..." |
 | | Thomas Jefferson(Illustrated) Selected Writings: A Library of America Paperback Classic (Library of America Paperback Classics) by Thomas Jefferson, Tom Wicker Paperback, 435 Pages, Published 2011 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-096-4, ISBN: 1-59853-096-8 "This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare an ..." |
 | | Tragic Failure Racial Integration in America by Tom Wicker Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-688-15560-5, ISBN: 0-688-15560-X "For twenty-five years Tom Wicker wrote for The New York Times with passion and intelligence, educating a generation of readers on important social and political issues of the day." |
 | | Shooting Star(1st Edition) The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy by Tom Wicker Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 2006 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101082-0, ISBN: 0-15-101082-X "Joe McCarthy first became visible to the nation on February 9, 1950, when he delivered a Lincoln Day address to local Republicans in Wheeling, West Virginia. That night he declared, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 [members of the Communist Party] still working and shaping policy in the State Department." Anticommunism was already a cause embraced by the Republican Party as a whole; McCarthy tapped into this current and turned it i ..." |
 | | One of Us(1st Edition) Richard Nixon and the American Dream by Tom Wicker Paperback, 731 Pages, Published 1995 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75817-4, ISBN: 0-679-75817-8 "... 645 Arevalo, Juan Jose, 140 Argentina, 208, 648 arms control: Johnson and, 447-53, 456-57, 482 Joint Chiefs of Staff and, 447-49, 454 ... 669n Ayub Khan, Mohammed, 137, 665 Babcock, Tim, 301 Baggs, Bill, 221 Bail Reform Act, 619- 20 Baker, Howard, 327-28 Ball, ... 48, 53, 75, 175n, 219, 234, 235, 257 Brooke, Edward, 286, 405 Brookings Institution, 680 Browder, Earl, 39 Brown, Edmund G, 216, 286, 298, 323, 332, 337 Brown, H. Rap, ..." |
 | | One of Us(1st Edition) Richard Nixon and the American Dream by Tom Wicker, Tome Wicher Hardcover, 731 Pages, Published 1991 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-394-55066-4, ISBN: 0-394-55066-8 "From his seemingly "poor boy makes good" childhood to his college years, this piercing, perceptive examination of the people, places, and events that shaped the character of Richard Nixon gives the reader a rare and a fair glimpse of the forces that shaped him.From the Trade Paperback edition." |
 | | A Time to Die by Tom Wicker Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 1980 by Crown ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-0487-1, ISBN: 0-8129-0487-7 "2:00 P.M. Commissioner Oswald arrives at Attica. 3:00 P.M. ... 4:45-5:15 P.M. Oswald, Schwartz, and Eve confer with inmates in D-yard. Oswald is ... Inmates add demands that Mancusi and Dr. Williams be expelled from the Attica staff. LATER ..." |
 | | Unto This Hour by Tom Wicker Paperback, 703 Pages, Published 1955 by Berkley ISBN-13: 978-0-425-07583-8, ISBN: 0-425-07583-4 "This novel recounts five days in Virginia in August 1862, when an outnumbered Confederate Army delivered a smashing blow to Union forces. The story follows the destinies of over 40 characters on both sides of the conflict, from farmers and slaves to officers, wives and lovers." |
 | | George Herbert Walker Bush(1st Edition) A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Tom Wicker Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-670-03303-4, ISBN: 0-670-03303-0 "No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W. Bush’s political rise and presidential reign. In George Herbert Walker Bush, Wicker provides a richly drawn and succinct overview of Bush from his New England roots, his decorated serv ..." |
 | | A Time to Die(1st Edition) The Attica Prison Revolt (Bison Book) by Tom Wicker Paperback, 362 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9756-2, ISBN: 0-8032-9756-4 ""Superb."Kurt Vonnegut"Wicker's story though could not be more vital today… A Time To Die compels us to understand the inhumanity of prisons in America, one of the greatest injustices of our time, and of a state that has no compunction about murdering prisoners and jailers alike. Think Attica forty years ago, think Pelican Bay today. Then act."Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights"[A Time to Die's] lessons abou ..." |
 | | Unto This Hour(1st Edition) A Novel by Tom Wicker Hardcover, 642 Pages, Published 1984 by Penguin Putnam~Trade ISBN-13: 978-0-241-11352-3, ISBN: 0-241-11352-0 "This novel recounts five days in Virginia in August 1862, when an outnumbered Confederate Army delivered a smashing blow to Union forces." |
 | | Four Days in November(1st Edition) The Original Coverage of the John F. Kennedy Assassination by Robert B. Semple, Tom Wicker, New York Times, Vincent Bugliosi Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2003 by St. Martin's Press ISBN-13: 978-0-312-32161-1, ISBN: 0-312-32161-9 "The assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas forty years ago remains, and will always remain, indelible in the minds of those old enough to recall it. The youngest elected leader in American history, a charming man leading what seemed a charmed life, by general consensus a president whose administration, having survived its early crises, was now at last hitting its stride, was shot and killed by a sniper firing a mail-order rifle from ..." |
 | | Donovan's Wife(1st Edition) by Tom Wicker Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1992 by William Morrow & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-688-10627-0, ISBN: 0-688-10627-7 "A story of the sleaze, slander, and intrigue that can go on in American politics goes behind the scenes to expose the dirty dealings of a typical race for the Senate. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour." |
 | | Unto This Hour(1st Edition) by Tom Wicker Hardcover, 642 Pages, Published 1984 by The Viking Press ISBN-13: 978-0-670-52193-7, ISBN: 0-670-52193-0 "This novel recounts five days in Virginia in August 1862, when an outnumbered Confederate Army delivered a smashing blow to Union forces. The story follows the destinies of over 40 characters on both sides of the conflict, from farmers and slaves to officers, wives and lovers." |
 | | Facing the Lions(1st Edition) by Tom Wicker Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 1974 by Avon Books (Mm) ISBN-13: 978-0-380-00045-6, ISBN: 0-380-00045-8 "Rich Morgan, Washington bureau chief for a major national newspaper, flies south for Senator Hunt Anderson's funeral. In trying to draw together the strands of trust, love, and betrayal that had bound him to the Senator - and to the Senator's elegant and sensuous wife, with whom he'd had a short, painful affair - Rich Morgan stirs a flood of bittersweet recollections of what might have been - and what was." |
 | | facing the lions by Tom Wicker Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 1973 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-15389-5, ISBN: 0-333-15389-8 |
 | | FACING THE LIONS by Tom Wicker Published by Avon Books ISBN-13: 978-0-380-19307-3, ISBN: 0-380-19307-8 |
 | | KINGPIN by Tom Wicker Published by Avon Books ISBN-13: 978-0-380-20693-3, ISBN: 0-380-20693-5 |
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