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1 Brief Shining Momentby William ManchesterISBN 0517612313 (0-517-61231-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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American Tabloidby James EllroyISBN 037572737X (0-375-72737-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Tabloid'Book summary:We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open. [via]More editions of American Tabloid:
- American Tabloid : A Novel: ISBN 0449000907 (0-449-00090-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - American Tabloid : A Novel: ISBN 0804114498 (0-8041-1449-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - American Tabloid: ISBN 0679403914 (0-679-40391-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - American Tabloid: ISBN 037572737X (0-375-72737-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- American Tabloid : A Novel: ISBN 0449000907 (0-449-00090-7)
The Best and the Brightestby David HalberstamISBN 0140069836 (0-14-006983-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best and the Brightest'Book summary:David Halberstams masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
Using portraits of Americas flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our countrys recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic. [via]More editions of The Best and the Brightest:
- The Best and the Brightest: ISBN 0449240339 (0-449-24033-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Best and the Brightest: ISBN 0394461630 (0-394-46163-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Best and the Brightest: ISBN 0679410627 (0-679-41062-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Best and the Brightest: ISBN 0679640991 (0-679-64099-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Best and the Brightest: ISBN 0140069836 (0-14-006983-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Editionby David HalberstamISBN 0449908704 (0-449-90870-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Edition'Book summary:"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller." -- The Boston Globe
"Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative . . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance." -- Los Angeles Times
"Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A story which every American should read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch [via]More editions of The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Edition:
Case Closedby Gerald PosnerISBN 1400034620 (1-4000-3462-0)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKby Gerald L. PosnerISBN 0679418253 (0-679-41825-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK'Book summary:The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. There was no second gunman on the grassy knoll. The CIA was not involved. And although more than four million pages of documents have been released since Posner first made his case, they have served only to corroborate his findings. Case Closed remains the classic account against which all books about JFKs death must be measured.
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Conspiracyby Anthony SummersISBN 1557782865 (1-55778-286-5)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of JFKby David E. ScheimISBN 082173833X (0-8217-3833-X)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedyby David E. Scheim, John H. DavisISBN 093350330X (0-933503-30-X)
Hardcover, General Publishing Company, Limited
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Conversations With Kennedyby Benjamin BradleeISBN 0393301893 (0-393-30189-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Conversations With Kennedyby John F. Kennedy, Benjamin BradleeISBN 0393087220 (0-393-08722-0)
Hardcover, Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conversations With Kennedy'Book summary:"Give[s] us a good idea of what Jack Kennedy was really likeprobably as good an idea as anything likely to be written about him [him]. . . . Highly informal and readable." R. L. Tobin, Saturday Review
Ben Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy's death. They also had a more professional relationship governed by Bradlee's job covering the capital for Newsweek.
Bradlee and his wife Tony participated in the parties at the White House and in more private moments when the president and Jacqueline were relaxing with friends. With Kennedy's knowledge, Bradlee kept notes of their intimate conversations. These records are the basis for this behind-the-scenes record of the human side of the JFK presidency.
For the first time, all the conflicting elements of Kennedy's personality are seen at the closest possible range. Here was a politician of the South Boston stripe who also was at home among the WASP intellectuals he brought into government, who loved the sick old tiger who was his father and yet would not be dominated by him, who understood his brothers' every quirk and strength, admired women, and had few illusions about human nature but nursed dreams all the same. [via]More editions of Conversations With Kennedy:
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedyby Jim MarrsISBN 0881846481 (0-88184-648-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Dark Side of Camelotby Seymour M. HershISBN 1568955456 (1-56895-545-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Side of Camelot'Book summary:If the Kennedys are America's royal family, then John F. Kennedy was the nation's crown prince. Magnetic, handsome, and charismatic, his perfectly coifed image overshadowed the successes and failures of his presidency, and his assassination cemented his near-mythological status in American culture and politics. Struck down in his prime, he represented the best and the brightest of America's future, and when he died, part of the nation's promise and innocence went with him. That, at least, is the public version of the story.
The private version, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh, is quite different. His meticulous investigation of Kennedy has revealed a wealth of indiscretions and malfeasance, ranging from frequent liaisons with prostitutes and mistresses to the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro to involvement in organized crime. Though scandals in the White House are nothing new, Hersh maintains that Kennedy's activities went beyond minor abuses of power and personal indulgences: they threatened the security of the nation--particularly in the realm of foreign policy--and the integrity of the office. Hersh believes it was only a matter of time before Kennedy's dealings were exposed, and only his popularity and charm, compounded by his premature death, spared such an investigation for so long. Exposure was further stalled by Bobby Kennedy's involvement in nefarious dealings, enabling him to bury any investigation of his brother and--by extension--himself.
Based on interviews with former Kennedy administration officials, former Secret Service agents, and hundreds of Kennedy's personal friends and associates, The Dark Side of Camelot rewrites the history of John F. Kennedy and his presidency. [via]
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The Day Kennedy Was Shotby Jim BishopISBN 000637901X (0-00-637901-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day Kennedy Was Shot'Book summary:By Jim Bishop. Riveting, minute-by-minute chronicle of the day JFK was struck down in Dallas. Filled with gripping eyewitness accounts of the assassination. 756 pages. [via]
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Death of a Presidentby William ManchesterISBN 0883659565 (0-88365-956-5)
Hardcover, BBS Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a President'Book summary:The author of the bestsellers American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 and The Last Lion offers a compelling account of President John F. Kennedy's last six days--the only record authorized by the Kennedy family--written with remarkable detail and immediacy, and with an intimacy that is unparalleled in the literature. [via]
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The Death of a President: November 1963by William Raymond ManchesterISBN 0060915315 (0-06-091531-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of a President: November 1963'Book summary:In this beautifully written, bestselling account of the death of John F. Kennedy, Manchester speaks with a sense of immediacy and authenticity about what really happened and why. "A book that will be used by historians for the next 2,000 years."--James Michener. [via]
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The Death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963by William Raymond ManchesterISBN 0877957584 (0-87795-758-4)
Softcover, Arbor House
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- The Death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963: ISBN 0060551364 (0-06-055136-4)
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- The Death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963: ISBN 0060551364 (0-06-055136-4)
Deep Politics and the Death of JFKby Peter Dale ScottISBN 0520205197 (0-520-20519-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisisby Graham T. Allison, Philip ZelikowISBN 0321013492 (0-321-01349-2)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis'Book summary:Introduction to International Relations: Perspectives and Themes, 2/ Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world. From liberalism through to green politics, it examines how different perspectives have developed, who has influenced them the most and what position they represent on the key issues in global politics. The clarity of presentation allows students to rapidly develop a theoretical framework and to apply this knowledge widely as a way of understanding both more advanced theoretical texts and events in world politics. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2/e [via]
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The Fords: An American Epicby Peter Collier, David HorowitzISBN 1893554325 (1-893554-32-5)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fords: An American Epic'Book summary:The Fords: An American Epic is the dramatic story of three generations of Fords and of the dramatic conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America's greatest industrial empire. The story begins with Henry I, the mechanical wizard, tinkerer, and mad genius who drove the automobile into the heart of American life and conquered the world with it. But in the end he became an embittered crank who so possessively loved the company he built that when his son, Edsel, tried to change it to suit the times, Henry destroyed him. It was left to Edsel's son, Henry II, to avenge him and save the Ford Motor Company. From the details of Henry I's illicit affair, which produced an illegitimate son, to the life and loves of "Hank the Deuce" and his celebrated feud with Lee Iacocca, this is an engrossing account of a vital chapter in American history. The authors have added a new preface to this now classic work, showing how Henry II's line lost out to the line of his brother William Clay Ford in the quest to control the company in the twentieth century.[via]More editions of The Fords: An American Epic:
Four Days in November: The Original Coverage of the John F. Kennedy Assassinationby Semple, Robert B., Jr., Tom WickerISBN 0312321619 (0-312-32161-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White Houseby Sally Bedell SmithISBN 0345480821 (0-345-48082-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House'Book summary:In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made available for the first time, Smith paints a richly detailed picture of the personal relationships behind the high purpose and poiltical drama of the twentieth century's most storied presidency.
At the dawn of the 1960s, a forty-three-year-old president and his thirty-one-year-old first lady the youngest couple ever to occupy the White House captivated the world with their easy elegance and their cool conviction that anything was possible. Jack and Jackie Kennedy gathered around them an intensely loyal and brillant coterie of intellectuals, journalists, diplomats, international jet-setters and artists. Perhaps as never before, Washington was sharply divided between the ins and the outs.
In his public life, JFK created a New Frontier, stared down the Soviets, and devoted himself to his wife and children. As first lady, Jackie mesmerized foreign leaders and the American people with her style and sophistication, creating a White House renowned for its beauty and culture. Smith brilliantly recreates the glamorous pageant of the Kennedy years, as well as the daily texture of the Kennedys marriage, friendships, political associations, and, in Jacks case, multiple love affairs.
Smiths striking revelations include new information about what drew Jack to his numerous mistresses and what effects the relationships ultimately had on the women; about the rivalries and resentments among Kennedys advisers; and about the poignant days before and after Kennedys assassination.
Smith has fashioned a vivid and nuanced portrait not only of two extraordinary individuals but of a new age that sprang to life around them. Shimmering with intelligence and detail, GRACE AND POWER is history at its finest. [via]More editions of Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House:
- Grace And Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House: ISBN 0345484975 (0-345-48497-5)
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- Grace And Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House: ISBN 0345484975 (0-345-48497-5)
JFK: Conspiracy of Silenceby Charles Crenshaw, Jens Hansen, J. Gary ShawISBN 0451403460 (0-451-40346-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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JFK: Reckless Youthby Nigel HamiltonISBN 0679748806 (0-679-74880-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Yeby David Powers, Odonnell, Kenneth P. and Powers, DavidISBN 0671824376 (0-671-82437-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedyby Kenneth P. O'DonnellISBN 0316630004 (0-316-63000-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Kennedyby Theodore SorensenISBN 1568520352 (1-56852-035-2)
Softcover, William s Konecky Assoc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kennedy'Book summary:A powerfully moving biography of JFK by one of his closest friends and advisors. Sorensen's work was first published in 1965 when the wounds caused by the assassination had barely time to heal. It has remained a classic and is indispensable for an evaluation of Kennedy and his place in history. [via]
Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar Americaby Christopher MatthewsISBN 0684832461 (0-684-83246-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America'Book summary:Christopher Matthews, the Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner and a former aide to Tip O'Neill, offers a fascinating look at the connections between the two most well-known politicians in the last 40 years. He traces the symmetries of their beginnings--both were elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 and assigned to the same committee--as well as their similar thirst for power. While both men's rise and fall, events that had profound effects on America, have been well chronicled, Matthews' book is one of the few, if not only, that places the two in parallel historical context. [via]
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The Kennedy Conspiracyby Anthony SummersISBN 0751518409 (0-7515-1840-9)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc
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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisisby Ernest R. May, Philip D. ZelikowISBN 0393322599 (0-393-32259-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Kennedys: An American Dramaby Peter Collier, David HorowitzISBN 1893554317 (1-893554-31-7)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kennedys: An American Drama'Book summary:A national bestseller based on hundreds of interviews with family members and associates, archival research, and previously unused sources reveals the all-too-human saga behind a high profile political family. Reprint. [via]
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Libraby Don DelilloISBN 0140156046 (0-14-015604-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Libra'Book summary:In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.[via]A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.
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Making of the President 1960by Theodore H. WhiteISBN 1568491433 (1-56849-143-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making of the President 1960'Book summary:Students of politics and political reporting should cheer: This too- long-out-of-print classic is coming back. The book and the campaign it covered are throwbacks to an era more and more citizens, increasingly mired in sound-bites and tabloidism, are at least subconsciously desperate to resuscitate. You'll be amazed at how knowledgeable (and sometimes even wise) both White and the candidates he covers--Kennedy and Nixon--seem. Yes, it was too good to be true, but what a nice idea. [via]
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Mrs. Paine's Garage : And the Murder of John F. Kennedyby Thomas MallonISBN 0156027550 (0-15-602755-0)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy'Book summary:Ruth Paine befriended Marina Oswald and found Marina's husband, Lee Harvey, a job in the Texas State Book Depository. Thomas Mallon's Mrs. Paine's Garagerevisits the brief intersection of these three lives--what he calls a "collision of innocent intentions and unforeseen enormities." Mallon details the nine-month Paine/Oswald friendship and its rapid post-assassination disintegration. He then sketches Paine's life since (from her testimony before various congressional committees to her current low-profile residence in Florida) and summarizes Paine's place in the churning, obsessive world of conspiracy theorists with snippets of humor. (Former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison is "Elmer Gantry with subpoena power.") This extended footnote to a footnote to a tragedy, though losing focus and energy by its end, is brisk, revelatory and even-handed. It also handily dispels several seemingly ominous coincidences about the events of November 22, 1963. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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On the Trail of the Assassinsby Jim GarrisonISBN 0446362778 (0-446-36277-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Trail of the Assassins'Book summary:The book that inspired the movie JFK recounts Jim Garrison's attempt to solve the Kennedy assassination, and describes how Garrison was harrassed because of his allegations of government involvement in Kennedy's death. [via]
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One Brief Shining Momentby William ManchesterISBN 0316544914 (0-316-54491-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Brief Shining Moment'Book summary:This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In good all round condition.Dust Jacket in good condition. [via]
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One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedyby William ManchesterISBN 0896215253 (0-89621-525-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964by Timothy J. Naftali, Aleksandr FursenkoISBN 0393317900 (0-393-31790-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964'Book summary:The Berlin Wall has been rubble for a decade and the memories of the cold war are growing dim. And yet no one is ever likely to forget the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962, when the world stood on the brink of full-scale nuclear war as the Soviet Union and America locked horns off the coast of Florida. The Soviet navy set sail for Cuba loaded with nuclear warheads for their newly constructed missile bases, precipitating the crisis. After 10 days of high tension, the Soviet Union backed down and the warheads were sent back home. War was averted, but up until now, no one has ever been too certain just how close the world came to catastrophe. Kennedy was assassinated long before he could write his memoirs, Castro's lips are sealed, and the Soviet archives were a closed book.
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali have taken advantage of recent unrestricted access to Soviet records and performed painstaking detective work to fill the gaps in the historical record. Some of the tension of the narrative is lost, because we know the outcome; even so, they give penetrating insights as they reconstruct the drama step by step. We learn that the Kremlin did seriously consider launching a nuclear attack on the U.S.: the appropriate orders were discussed and Khrushchev spent the night of October 22 in his office so he could be on hand to cable his authorization. Some of the most interesting facts to emerge, however, are those concerning John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. JFK had always previously been portrayed as something of a parochial gung-ho type, but this, it emerges, was merely a public persona designed to appease the Pentagon hawks. At the same time JFK was talking about a Cuban invasion, he and his brother were engaging in a more secret policy of appeasement through the Soviet ambassador. Fortunately for all of us, diplomacy won the day. In recent years, JFK has been somewhat discredited as a leader for his unpleasant sexual carryings-on and corruption. It may just be that this view is as incomplete as his portrayal as the saintly "King of Camelot". If so, One Hell of a Gamble could be the first stage in his partial rehabilitation. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of Jfk?by Mark LaneISBN 1560250488 (1-56025-048-8)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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President Kennedy: Profile of Powerby Richard ReevesISBN 0671892894 (0-671-89289-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'President Kennedy: Profile of Power'Book summary:President Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an indepth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear war abroad to racial unrest at home. [via]
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Profiles in Courageby John F. KennedyISBN 1579120148 (1-57912-014-8)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage'Book summary:The Illustrated Edition: The Pulitzer-Prize winning account of men of principle, integrity and bravery in American politics is now available in a handsome, illustrated format . Eight men who served in the United States Senate were selected by John F. Kennedy as models of virtue and courage under pressure. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Profiles in Courage: ISBN 0060530626 (0-06-053062-6)
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Profiles in Courage/Large Print: ISBN 0816158878 (0-8161-5887-8)
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Profiles in Courageby Robert F. Kennedy, John F. KennedyISBN 0060806982 (0-06-080698-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage'Book summary:Political Studies, American Studies [via]
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Resurrection Dayby Brendan DuBoisISBN 0515129496 (0-515-12949-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Rush to Judgmentby Mark Lane, Brian LaneISBN 1560250437 (1-56025-043-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rush to Judgment'Book summary:The first book to challenge the Warren Commission findings presents case after case of ignored or twisted evidence to offer a scathing indictment of the Commission's handling of the assassination of President Kennedy. By the author of Plausible Denial. Reprint. [via]
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The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Recordby Robert J. GrodenISBN 0670858676 (0-670-85867-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White Houseby Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., David SobelISBN 1579124496 (1-57912-449-6)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White Houseby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0618219277 (0-618-21927-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Underworldby Don DelilloISBN 0684842696 (0-684-84269-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underworld'Book summary:While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.
"It's all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria.
Through fragments and interlaced stories--including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others--DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled. [via]
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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963by Robert DallekISBN 0316907928 (0-316-90792-8)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception And Its Consequencesby Eric AltermanISBN 0143036041 (0-14-303604-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception And Its Consequences'Book summary:Lying has become pervasive in American lifebut what happens when the falsehoods are perpetrated by the Oval Office? As the lies told by our government become more and more intricate, they begin to weave a tapestry of deception that creates problems far larger than those lied about in the first place.
Eric Altermans When Presidents Lie is a compelling historical examination of four specific post-World War II presidential lies whose consequences were greater than could ever have been predicted. FDR told the American people that peace was secure in Europe, setting the stage for McCarthyism and the cold war. John F. Kennedys unyielding stance during the Cuban missile crisis masked his secret deal with the Soviet Union. Misrepresented aggression at the Gulf of Tonkin by the North Vietnamese gave LBJ the power to start a war. Finally, Ronald Reagans Central American wars ended in the ignominy of the Iran-contra scandal.
In light of George W. Bushs war in Iraq, which Alterman examines in the books conclusion, When Presidents Lie is a warningone more relevant today than ever beforethat the only way to prevent these lies is Americas collective demand for truth. [via]
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