Corey, Shana

Summary: "Acclaimed author Shana Corey and New York Times Best Illustrated artist R. Gregory Christie deliver a fresh look at Kennedy, underscoring the greatness and fallibility of our leaders and how each one of us, no matter who we are, have the power to make adifference. With quotes from JFK's speeches, detailed back matter, and a thought- provoking author's note, this biography offers a sensitive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2017

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Summary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008

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Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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Kendrick, Stephen

Summary: "A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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Gunderson, Megan

Summary: This biography introduces readers to John F. Kennedy including his military service, early political career, and key events from Kennedy's administration including the Cold War, space race, Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban missile crisis, and his assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021

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Matthews, Chris

Summary: Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, a portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011

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Kaiser, David E.

Summary: Fought as fiercely by politicians and the public as by troops in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War, its origins, its conduct, its consequences, is still being contested. In what will become the classic account, based on newly opened archival sources, David Kaiser rewrites what we know about this conflict. Reviving and expanding a venerable tradition of political, diplomatic, and military history,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2000

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Shircore, Ian.

Summary: "John F. Kennedy: the life, the presidency, the assassination examines every key event of J.F.K.'s tenure as President, as well as his hotly debated acts of heroism during World War II, his groundbreaking work in Congress and the Senate and the controversial 1960 election that heralded his supremacy. The book also reveals Kennedy's fascinating private life -- from the turbulent relations within...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Andre Deutsch 2013

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Oliphant, Thomas

Summary: "A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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Talbot, David

Summary: Journalist Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. The book begins on the shattering afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a grief-stricken Robert Kennedy urgently demands answers about the assassination of his brother, then shifts back in time, revealing the shadowy conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007

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Kempe, Frederick.

Summary: Shares controversial perspectives on a defining event in the Cold War, revealing how nearly American and Soviet troops came to waging nuclear war while citing the specific challenges that were faced by international leaders.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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Esposito, Joseph A.

Summary: In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winners -- along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers -- at a famed White House dinner. Among the guests were J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was officially welcomed back to Washington after a stint in the political wilderness; Linus Pauling, who had picketed the White House that very afternoon;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England 2018

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Summary: The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.

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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015

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Logevall, Fredrik

Summary: "By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War era. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had ascended the ranks of Boston's labyrinthine political machine, Kennedy was bred for government,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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Kenney, Charles.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2000

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Levingston, Steven

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017

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Shaw, John

Summary: Before John F. Kennedy became a legendary young president, he was the junior senator from Massachusetts. The Senate was where JFK's presidential ambitions were born and first realized. In the first book to deal exclusively with JFK's Senate years, author John T. Shaw looks at how the young senator was able to catapult himself on the national stage. Unlike Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic leader...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013

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Weisbrot, Robert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2001

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Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Sloyan, Patrick J.

Summary: Analyzes the final year of JFK's presidency and presents the thirty-fifth president as a ruthless politician who buried the truth and manipulated public opinion.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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Coleman, David G.

Summary: Describes what was going on in the Oval Office as the highly-charged events leading up the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded, as well as the immediate aftermath, based on secret recordings made by President Kennedy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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Brinkley, Alan.

Summary: Analyzes the contrast between Kennedy's achievements and his legend, tracing the successes and failures of such events as the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis while exploring the ways in which he reshaped views of the presidency.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2012

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