Fame-Dropping: Five Decades of Encounters with the Eminent

by James C. Humes

Overview

In this book, James C. Humes candidly accounts all the famous people he has met over the past fifty years, including Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Kennedy, and Truman, Sir Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Shirley MacLaine, John Updike, Ezra Pound, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761870791
Publisher:	Hamilton Books
Publication date:	01/18/2019
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

James C. Humes has written speeches for Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, George H. W. Bush, and Reagan. He has practiced the art of public speaking as an attorney, lecturer, diplomat, and Pennsylvania state legislator.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: The White House Chapter 2: Capitol Hill Chapter 3: State House Chapter 4: State Department Chapter 5: City Hall Chapter 6: Buckingham Palace Chapter 7: Parliament Chapter 8: Library Chapter 9: Hollywood Chapter 10: Stadium Chapter 11: Press Box Chapter 12: Pentagon Chapter 13: Foreign Capitals Chapter 14: Courthouse Chapter 15: Church Chapter 16: Art Gallery Chapter 17: Lyceum Bibliography About the Author Index of Names

Editorial Reviews

James C. Humes is the Samuel Pepys of insider portraiture, specializing in presidents, prime ministers, senators, political writers, members of the British royal family, and other historic personages he has encountered. As a White House speechwriter, Humes knew everyone in and around Washington. In the UK, he conversed with Winston Churchill, and is so well liked by the British establishment that he was awarded a medal making him an honorary member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Fame Dropping is a connoisseur’s gem of elegant writing, insightful perceptions, and sagacious judgments.

Jonathan Aitken

I loved this book and read it with the speed of a hot knife through butter. Jamie’s sizing-up of the “eminents” he has encountered in his lifetime makes you wish he had been around since the days of Adam and Eve. This book is a historical treasure.  

Warren Adler