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Kennedy

As The New York Times wrote "This book is the nearest thing we will ever have to the Memoirs Kennedy intended to write".
And Theodore C. Sorensen, special counsel of the late President, said "I have tried to tell the story of JFK as I know he would have liked to tell it himself".

Kennedy

As The New York Times wrote "This book is the nearest thing we will ever have to the Memoirs Kennedy intended to write".
And Theodore C. Sorensen, special counsel of the late President, said "I have tried to tell the story of JFK as I know he would have liked to tell it himself".

Kennedy

Italian version (1977) of Kennedy's biography (1976) by Lord Longford.
Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 1st Baron Pakenham, KG PC (5 December 1905 – 3 August 2001), known to family as Frank Longford, and known as Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer. A member of the Labour Party, he was one of its longest serving politicians, and was a cabinet minister on several occasions between 1947 and 1968.
In the book KENNEDY, Lord Longford, who was considered Anlo-Irish aristocracy rather than British, found a subject that combined several of his interests -Ireland, America and religion.
"I was fascinated first because Kennedy was a Catholic who had at last broken through, and that intrigued me as Catholic convert. And I have always been interested in American history.Form me it's romantic" Lord Longford said in 1976, when his book was published.

Kennedy

In this book and in the major television series of the same title, Reg Gadney, who has researched the Kennedys for several years, scrupulously and accurately tells the story of the thousand days of Kennedy presidency.

Kennedy

In Italian.
Italian version of the book  "Jack a life like no other".
Geoffrey Perret's book is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive and important documentary record that has finally become available, including Kennedy's personal diaries, hundred of hours of taped conversations from the White House, recently declassified government documents, extensive family correspondance, and crucial interviews sealed for nearly 40 yrs.
 

Kennedy

In Italian.
Biography of the Presiden who has become the myth of all young generations.
Introduction by Carlo Rossella.

Kennedy

In French.
' A man does what he has to do , despite the impact on his life, obstacles, dangers and pressure , which is the basis of all human morality . '
Heroes of the Second World War,  Massachusetts senator at the age of thirty-five years , John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) , who invented a new form of leadership, and whose presidency marked by the missile crisis Cuba, the involvement in Vietnam and the rise of the civil rights movement was that of a tilt between two worlds and two political orders , remains , even today, one of the most charismatic figures of the twentieth century.
Teaching that ' lead and learn are inseparable ' , he never sacrificed his political beliefs as that "mankind should put an end to the war , otherwise it would put an end to mankind ". 
Vincent Michelot , professor of political history of the United States at Sciences Po and author of numerous books on the United States , is one of the great commentators of contemporary American politics.

Kennedy

In Spanish.
Spanish Biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of United States of America.
Thanks to my Chinese friend and collegue Yu Zhou who gave me this book as a gift for my Kennedy collection.

Kennedy

In Italian.
"Mondadori Comics- Historica-Biografie"
Kennedy's biography in comics.

Jacques Lowe's book begins with the early days of the Kennedy and Fitzgerald clans in America and ends with the assassination of the second Kennedy brother, Robert F. Kennedy ('Bobby') on June 6,1968. Based on the personal photographic archives of the author and those of the Kennedy family and the White House. The book is a true evocation of the Kennedy Years, from Camelot through to America's darkest hours. It is a powerful and inspiring memoir.

Kennedy - La più grande biografia illustrata   [2 vol.]

One of the best illustrated Biography of John F.Kennedy and his family.  [in Italian]

Book in Italian.
Biography of President John F.Kennedy. Volume of the series "I Dossier Mondadori".

Academy Award winning Martin Sheen takes the title role in KENNEDY, the 2 part mini series that has been seen in over 65 countries. Filmed entirely on location in America, KENNEDY looks at the Presidential years, from the night before his election in November 1960 to the afternoon of his assassination on 22nd November 1963. The series not only examines the political events of Kennedy's years in the White House but also looks at his family and private life during the same period.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies has dedicated an exhibition to the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, on the fortieth anniversary of his tragic death. This book is the official catalogue of the exhibition, focusing on the Italian trip that President Kennedy made in July 1963, to Rome and Naples.

Everyone knows that politics makes strange bedfellows, but in the case of John F.Kennedy, no one knew those bedfellows included Marilyn, Jayne, Mariella, Judy, Joan, Nancy, Inger, Mary and more. For the charismatic President had some amazing domestic affairs - and they have become the talk of every columnist from coast to coast.
Tony Sciacca, long time Kennedy observer, reveals in this book the intimate details behind the headlines and tells all the stories - even those the press hadn't dare to uncover.

This book explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early sixties when John F.Kennedy was President.  The early sixties were a period of marked political, social and cultural change. The old was swept away, and the United States began to become the country that it is today.

It was the Cold War, the world was divided into warring camps and Cuba was the flashpoint that could ignite World War III.
Fidel Castro was everything the United States feared, a revolutionary leader just 90 miles from the coast of Florida. He was teh Soviet bloc's toehold in the Western hemisphere adn the Americal government were intent on overthrrowing the Cuban regime. In fact, they even plotted to assassinate Castro.
President John F.Kennedy was obsessed with Cuba. His administration suffered its most humiliating defeat in 1961 when CIA backed Cuban exiles invaded the island in a vain attempt to topple castro's government. Later, Kennedy approved Operation Mongoose, a huge secret programme to destabilise Cuba through propaganda and sabotage. However, even as Kennedy was trying to destroy Castro, newly uncovered documents reveal that  secretely he was reaching out to him. Behind their hostile public face, the two leaders were eager to create peace and had secret negotiation to that goal.
The catalyst behind the whole process as Lisa Howard, a pioneering ABC television journalist all but forgotten today.
Only now, has this Secret History been revealed and Lisa Howard can begin to claim her legacy.

 Italian book.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the President of the United States par excellence. A figure of great charisma of the American Democratic party, killed on November 22, 1963 in Dallas while on an official visit to the city. Bruno Vespa recounts the myth of the Kennedy presidency that lasted just over two years. Sixty years after the assassination in Dallas, a critical reconstruction, between public and private, of one of the most important figures in American history, from the swearing-in of 1961 to the fateful day in 1963 that changed the country forever. That of “Jack” Kennedy was a parabola that was interrupted at its highest point, causing America to sink into its dark side. Vespa retraces the story in its lights and shadows, with the experience of a great journalist and the ability of a fine analyst of history.

Italian VHS video cassette of the series "XX Century. The Events, the Characters, the History".
Title of this episode "KENNEDY. The AMERICAN DREAM. American history from 1900 to 1963".
 

Andreas W.Daum's study not only fills a gap in the historiography of German-American relations, but also constitutes a methodological innovation, for it is far more than just a history of John F. Kennedy's legendary visit to Berlin.
This is going to be the classic study of JFK's visit to Berlin!

Italian book, very critic about Kennedy life and Presidency.

In November 1952, Dwight D.Eisenhower won the presidential election by a lanslide vote. In Massachussets, however, a relatively unknown and inexperienced Congressman John F.Kennedy narrowly defeated incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge,Jr. In this book, Thomas J.Whalen provides a penetrating analysis of this pivotal campaign and tells the fascinating story of a political duel between two families that spanned nearly half a century.

Travel with President John F.Kennedy on his 1963 trip back to his roots in Ireland.
Incorporating film footage from the tour, excerpts from his speeches in Ireland, and historic reenactments of Irish history,  this is a tribute to the heritage of Irish immigrants.
Beautifully photographed in all of Ireland's gloriouscolors, this chronicle of Irish history and Kennedy's journey back to the land of his ancestors will capture your heart with the warmth of the Irish.
70 mins video - Color.
Narrated by Robert Vaughn

John F. Kennedy's advisors were enormously influential in the shaping of American foreign policy at a crucial time. After struggling in his first year as president, Kennedy employed the guidance of a core group including McGeorge Bundy, Robert Kennedy, Robert Mcnamara, Maxwell Taylor and Theodore Sorensen. This "kitchen cabinet" led to strong leadership in confronting serious challenges arising from the Soviet Union, Cuba, Southeast Asia and Berlin.

In this book, noted historian Lawrence Freedman draws on the best of Cold War scholarship and newly released government documents to illuminate Kennedy's approach to war and his efforts for peace.

French edition.
The life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was all shadows and lights; lights of incredible brilliance and shadows of disturbing darkness, like so many signs of a tragic destiny. A true chameleon, JFK admirably played the role that others assigned to him throughout his life, first and foremost his father. A father with devouring ambition who, like a demiurge, shapes the boys of the clan into men of power. But JFK is not just a simple puppet, he is endowed with great intelligence and extraordinary charisma, nothing and no one can resist him, especially not women. He transforms the mediocre into excellence, a sick body into a triumphant body... Thanks to new elements little known to the French public and refusing both idolatry and sensationalism, Thomas Snégaroff paints a sensitive portrait of a man whose Destiny continues, half a century after his death, to fascinate us.

Italian book.
 The presidencies of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln are remembered for the great historical changes they ushered in American society. But can these leaders truly be considered revolutionary, subverting American tradition? A concrete analysis of the policies of these two great presidents reveals surprising and, in some ways, previously unexplored aspects, allowing us to determine the extent to which the myth surrounding them is truly justified by the actual policies they pursued. The text combines profound fluency and ease of reading with historical precision and attention to the figures who accompanied the prematurely ended lives of Lincoln and Kennedy, two protagonists united by a thread that, across a century of history, marks the courage of their actions and the drama of their end, projecting their charisma into the present day. History can sometimes be retraced through the form of a narrative without sacrificing documented, serious, and innovative conclusions.

Biography, in Italian, of the President of the "New Frontier".

Libro in italiano.
During the campaign that brought him to the White House, John Fitzgerald Kennedy repeated to voters many times that US foreign policy was no longer keeping up with the times in its relationship with Europe and with the recently decolonized countries towards which a political line it didn't exist at all. As soon as he was elected he launched a project, as vast as it was ambitious: the Freedom Doctrine. The volume analyzes the birth and evolution of the new presidential doctrine in its general aspects, development cooperation and disarmament and its repercussions on the European allies, soon called into question to support the ambitions of the White House, having realized the unsustainability economy of the new politics.

Italian translation of all the speeches of the more loved American President of the Post-War period.

Italian book.
Collection of 8 important speeches of John F.Kennedy from 1958 to 1963 :
"1. Una nuova idea di Presidenza - 14/1/1960
2. La Nuova Frontiera -  15/7/1960
3. Noi e Khrushev - 26/8/1960
4. Un Mondo Nuovo - 20/1/1961
5. Indipendenza e Interdipendenza  - 4/7/1962
6. Una Nuova idea di Pace  - 10/6/1963
7. Ich bin ein Berliner  - 26/6/1963
8. Una Nazione di Immigrati  - 1958

Italian book.
In the summer of 1945, an energetic, thin, and somewhat frail young man traveled to Europe- England, Ireland, France, and Germany- as a reporter for the Hearst newspapers. His assignment was to cover the situation in Europe after the surrender of Germany, following his attendance at the San Francisco Conference, which established the United Nations. The young man was a seasoned world traveler, a veteran of World War II, and a well-educated professional who had introductions to world leaders and friends in high places. The young man was John F. Kennedy, age 28, and during the trip he kept a diary. In it he recorded his impressions of the future of western democracies, the economic conditions in Europe following the devastation of the war, as well as his predictions on the emerging cold war.
John F. Kennedy's 1945 diary offers us an intimate look at the well-reasoned young man who would be President.

Italian book.
Furio Colombo was an Italian journalist working in US in the period 1960-64 and he had the opportunity to meet and know JFK and his staff (A.Schlesinger, T.Sorensen, R.Kennedy). He wrote this book after the Dallas tragedy.

The Speeches, Statements, and Writings of John F.Kennedy  -1947 to 1963.
In one volume, the writings and speeches of JFK reveal a man and President and portray an era as no historian or biographer could.Here are the words that propelled a nation and moved the word.

A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship between a president and one of his close advisers, John Kenneth Galbraith.

French book.
 Although he has been dead for sixty years now, the Kennedy enigma remains, as the discordance between the bright image shown to the general public and that of a much darker reality still fascinates today. John F. Kennedy continues to attract juxtaposed reactions of both love and hate, to embody an ideal to pursue or a forfeiture to condemn, an example to rely on or from which it would be appropriate to turn away. More generally, beyond his undeniable talents, why and how was a man whose shortcomings are now widely known, able to so lastingly imprint an image calling for nostalgia and regret? It is undoubtedly his deep personality that should be examined here to identify the resources that he drew from deep within himself and which allowed him, throughout his life, to surpass himself with the success that we know. His humor, an essential component of his charm, may in this respect be the key that allowed him, first to protect himself during a painful childhood, and later to build an extraordinary public persona, by transforming his ability to laugh and make others laugh, into a political weapon of seduction and exercise of power.

From tape cover:
The first and only video telling the JFK story through his own words!
- In original audio taped uncovered from the JFK Library Collection
- In never-before-published photographs from LIFE magazine researchers
- in re-discovered film footage form the 50s and the 60s... images that capture and era and will captivate forever.

From young Congressman to President; from eminent bachelor to courtship and marriage; from post-war to Cold War; from Hyannis Port to Dallas; these were the Kennedy Years.
"LIFE in Camelot" presents an intimate portrait, a human story, a first-hand glimpse of the life and times of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that will be trasured for generations to come.
Color and Black&White - 55 minutes

John F.Kennedy was a young senator pursued by an Italian contessa and the impossing forces of his destiny. She was a twenty-one-year-old Swedish aristocrat away from home for the first time. Their accidental meeting at a port in the Riviera changed both their lives forever. Spanning two continents and the Atlantic Ocean, unfolding over a six-year period starting in 1953, "Love,Jack" is the story of a transcendent but heartbreaking love between two people at the peak of their youth and beauty, a love that seemed impossible but could not be denied. Here is an intimate portrait of John Kennedy never before seen: a gentle, kind and caring man, intensely passionate and full of life - but a man who faces great difficulty adjusting to the demanding role history and his father have assigned him.

Italian version.
Although the book is about their "relationship", the author leads you through their life and upbringing to give you a real understanding of their persona. It is fascinating to see how their childhood and certain events influenced the persons they came to be.

A compilation of addresses and tributesas given in the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the life, character and public service of the late President John Fitzgeral Kennedy.
 32,250 copies of this volume have been printed by U.S.Congress

[Gennaio-Marzo 1962]

1962

Italian version.
This volume contains the texts of the Messages that President John F. Kennedy sent to the United States Congress in the first quarter of 1962. They range from the one "on the State of the Union", which the President is required by the Constitution to send to the Chambers, to the one on the protection of the interest of consumers, the last in chronological order in the aforementioned period, and they cover both the main sectors of national life and internal politics - economy, agriculture, education, space activities, natural resources, social security and health care - as well as the general directives and some of the most important problems of the country's foreign policy, such as international trade, foreign aid programs, relations with the United Nations and agreements with the European Economic Community.

This book is the story behind the Civil Rights Revolution. Harry Golden, one of the most gifted, literate and humane journalists in America in 60th, here, with the clarity, wit and vision for which he became famous, gives his documented account of the revolution which was shaking the conscience of the nation... of the men who were fighting for it and against it... and the man who risked his political life to make America understand it.

Intimate insights into the life and character of JFK are presented in this book by the person who in many ways knew him best. For twelve years Evelyn Lincoln was President Kennedy's personal secretary. Her desk was just outside his office door; she shared the journeys, the campaigning, the years in the Senate and his all-too-short Presidency.

The pages of this book (in Italian), published on the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination, collect the most important speeches given by the President during his mandate, starting with the famous inauguration speech that gives the book its title.
These words represent a hymn to the construction of a more supportive society and have been a source of inspiration for several generations of citizens thanks to their deep emotional charge and their visionary strength.
An extraordinary orator, John Fitzgerald Kennedy is still today the ideal point of reference for all those who believe that a different and more just world is possible and necessary.

In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington D.C. to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country - and Mimi was eager to contribute.
For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job was the chance of a lifetime. Although she started as a lowly intern, Mimi made an impression on Kennedy's inner circle and, after just three days at the White House, she was presented to the President Kennedy. Almost immediately the two began an affair that would continue for the next eighteen months.
In 2003, a Kennedy biographer mentioned "a tall, slender, beautiful nineteen-year-old college sophomore and White House intern, who worked in the press office" in reference to one of the President's affairs.
The disclosure set off a tabloid frenzy and soon exposed Mimi and the secret taht she had kept for forty-one years. Because her past had been revealed in such a shocking, public way, she was forced, for the first time, to examine the choices she'd made. She came to understand that shutting down one part of her life so completely had closed her off from so much more.
No longer defined by silence or shame, mimi Alford has finally unburdened herself with this searingly honest account of her life and her extremely private moments with a very public man.
"One Upon a Secret" offers a new and personal depiction of one of our most iconic leaders and a powerful, moving story of a woman coming to terms with her past and moving out of the shadows to reclaim the truth.

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet and Cuban sources to produce the most authorative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis.

The European Diary of John F.Kennedy - Summer 1945.
As World WarII was ending and the cold war was just beginning, a twenty-eight-year-old naval hero, decommissioned before war's end because of his injuries, traveled through a devastated Europe. During that trip, John F.Kennedy kept a diary. As the diary makes clear, that European trip was a turning point in the future President's life.