In the Room

The Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer’s unprecedented sixty-year eyewitness account of the pivotal events that have defined modern American and world history.After he won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos when he was 25, Kennerly became President Gerald R. Ford’s chief White House photographer, he has been on assignment in more than 100 countries. With more than 50 Time and Newsweek covers, Kennerly has cemented his place among the most important photojournalists of our time.This magnum opus gathers his most iconic images into a sweeping narrative of America’s most consequential era: from the night Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel, to the battlefields of Vietnam, from the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation, to the Ford White House. He was in the room for exclusive coverage of Reagan’s and Gorbachev’s “Fireside Summit” in Geneva, was with Governor George W. Bush the night of the 2000 election that ended in a tie, and photographed the...

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