THE OFFICE AND THE MAN
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THE OFFICE AND THE MAN Book 1
4 parts · 17 h 4 min
France and the roads of Europe, 1785 to 1827. A Corsican artillery lieutenant with no fortune learns a trade that is mostly arithmetic, and turns it into a way of moving two hundred thousand men faster than anyone can count them.
THE OFFICE AND THE MAN Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 51 min
Britain and its wars, 1874 to 1940. Winston Churchill enters public life with a famous name, a stammer and no money, and spends forty years assembling the record that should have ended him: Antwerp, the Dardanelles, the return to gold, the General Strike, India, the abdication.
THE OFFICE AND THE MAN Book 3
4 parts · 19 h 22 min
Philadelphia, Cambridge, Valley Forge and Passy, 1754 to 1790. A revolution with no executive branch fights an eight-year war by committee. George Washington commands an army that Congress cannot pay; Benjamin Franklin, twenty-six years older and an ocean away, borrows the money that keeps it standing.
THE OFFICE AND THE MAN Book 4
4 parts · 18 h 25 min
Washington and the Amazon, 1901 to 1919. Theodore Roosevelt inherits the presidency from an assassinated man at forty-two and discovers that the federal government has almost no instrument for governing the largest private organizations ever built.
THE OFFICE AND THE MAN Book 5
4 parts · 18 h 45 min
London, Brazzaville, Algiers and Paris, 1890 to 1970. On 17 June 1940 a two-star general of twelve days' seniority leaves a collapsing France with a borrowed aircraft, a hundred thousand francs of secret funds, and no troops, no territory, no treasury and no legal standing whatever. Within four years he governs France.
THE OFFICE AND THE MAN Book 6
4 parts · 19 h 22 min
New York and the Texas Hill Country, 1888 to 2012. Robert Moses held as many as twelve appointive offices at once and was elected to nothing. Lyndon Johnson arrived in Washington as a congressman's secretary and learned the building before he learned the politics.