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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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.