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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Presidential historian Dallek analyzes the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration--including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam--were indelible. The author delivers a striking portrait of a leader whose wise resistance to pressure and adherence to principle offers a cautionary tale for our own time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country." When he was a young boy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy wondered about what happened in the world. He wanted to change the world when he grew up, and he did just that! Beginning readers will learn about the milestones in John F. Kennedy's life in this Level Two I Can Read biography, which combines a traditional, illustrated narrative with historical photographs at the back of...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An account of the contentious relationship between the thirty-fifth president and Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement explores their influence on one another and the important decisions that were inspired by their rivalry.
11) John F. Kennedy
Author
Series
Publisher
The Childs World
Language
English
Description
Learn about the life and presidency of John F. Kennedy.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive portrait of John F. Kennedy, complete with rarely-heard recordings of JFK and RFK, interviews with personal confidantes, insiders and highly-placed sources, and home videos of the Kennedy family.
Home use only.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive portrait of John F. Kennedy, complete with rarely-heard recordings of JFK and RFK, interviews with personal confidantes, insiders and highly-placed sources, and home videos of the Kennedy family.
Home use only.
15) Who really killed Kennedy?: 50 years later, stunning new revelations about the JFK assassination
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Posits that John F. Kennedy was not killed by a lone assassin.
At the height of his popularity, John F. Kennedy was gunned down in a Dallas motorcade--a tragedy widely regarded as the end of America's post-war "age of innocence." At the time, a concerted effort was made by the Warren Commission, appointed by the Lyndon Johnson White House, to officially lay the entire blame on "lone gunman" Lee Harvey Oswald. Fifty years later, recently declassified...
16) John F. Kennedy
Author
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President...
18) Dallas 1963
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The authors ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas.
In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron,...
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Language
English
Description
""The time has come for this Nation to fulfill its promise." John F. Kennedy was born one hundred years ago. As America's thirty-fifth president, he often took bold actions: establishing a peace corps and challenging Americans to land on the moon. But on civil rights, it took the urging and the example of other courageous people--leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson, and even students and children--to help him realize that the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
On October 28, 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. Conventional wisdom has marked that day as the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a seminal moment in American history. As President Kennedy's secretly recorded White House tapes now reveal, the reality was not so simple. Nuclear missiles were still in Cuba, as were nuclear bombers, short-range missiles, and thousands of Soviet troops. From October 29,...
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