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...sense, Immelt's campaign for the top spot didn't begin until after he won it. Living on airplanes, where he devours mystery novels and biographies (including David McCullough's John Adams), he has crisscrossed the globe to meet with employees, key customers, suppliers and investors, morphing the company's public face from Jack to Jeff in person. "I've used the time to transfer relationships," he says. "It's got to be done retail, face to face, and you've got to keep doing...
...loud in Washington. As host of the first National Book Festival, this weekend, the First Lady will oversee an all-day affair on the Capitol lawn with readings, music, food and lessons on bookbinding. Whom has Bush picked as opening acts for this bookfest? John Adams biographer David McCullough, novelist Gail Godwin (Evensong), playwright Larry L. King (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), short-story writer J. California Cooper, historian John Hope Franklin and TV anchor Tom Brokaw (The Greatest Generation). Brokaw, for one, practices reading out loud...
...summer, David McCullough's "John Adams" has sat at the top of the best-seller lists. Joseph Ellis' "Founding Brothers" has been on the list for nine months. This fall, Edmund Morris' "Theodore Rex", the second volume of his Theodore Roosevelt biography (the first was his splendid "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"), will have a first printing of over 200,000. Doris Kearns Goodwin, having already studied the Kennedys and the Franklin Roosevelts to handsome effect, is hard at work on Abraham Lincoln...
...Still, some historians, including Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, have a point when they worry that McCullough's type of portraiture - in common with PBS productions like Rick Burns' 'Civil War'- may represent a sort of glossy historical Norman Rockwellism that highlights personal drama in a PEOPLE magazine kind of way and pays insufficient attention to surrounding economic, social, cultural, and political contexts...
...ADAMS FAMILY: David McCullough's "John Adams" (Simon & Schuster) is the No. 1 nonfiction book on the New York Times (NYT) list after nine weeks. That's good news for the founding father's wife, Abigail. PW reports that Simon & Schuster will be reissuing "Dearest Friend: The Life of Abigail Adams" by Lynn Withey (1981), which has long been out of print. First Ladies are all the rage in publishing these days: in addition to the books about Edith Wilson (below) and Abigail Adams, Pantheon will be publishing "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages that Shaped Our Recent History" by Kati Marton...