BP-JFK collection

Books 151 - 200
The Humor of JFK
	compiled by Booton Herndon 1964	The astonishing thing about the natural humor of John F.Kennedy was that it proved to be, again and again, a thing of delight to friend and adversary alike. It was impossible to resist the magnetism of his comic spirit, or not to be charmed by his polished cajolery. The most persuasive of his humorous pleasantries are collected in these pages.
The Kennedy Baby [The loss that transformed JFK]
	Levingston Steven 2013 E-book	A sensitive portrait of how a profound tragedy changed one of America’s most prominent families. Their marriage is the subject of countless books. His presidency has been pored over minute by minute by historians. They lived their lives in the public eye and under a microscope that magnified all of their flaws, all of their scandals, all of their tragedies. Now Steven Levingston, nonfiction editor at the Washington Post, presents a devastating story in unprecedented detail, about a child John and Jackie Kennedy loved and lost. On August 7, 1963, heavily pregnant Jackie Kennedy collapsed, marking the beginning of a harrowing day and a half. The doctors and family went into full emergency mode, including a helicopter ride to a hospital, a scramble by the President to join her from the White House, and a C-section to deliver a baby boy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, five and a half weeks early with a severe respiratory ailment. The baby was so frail he was immediately baptized. Over the next thirty nine hours the nation watched and waited. The vigil was spread across the front pages of the newspapers; the country watched the life of Patrick unfold on the evening news. Within the Kennedy family, the drama was transforming the president and his marriage. Both he and Jackie, long known for their cool exteriors, were brought together by a shared sadness and love as they never had been. Although baby Patrick succumbed after 39 hours, his father was born anew through the tragedy. THE KENNEDY BABY is a vivid drama of a national tragedy and private trauma for the Kennedy family, taking readers through the lead up to the birth, the ordeal in the hospital, and JFK’s personal growth through his hardship and the progress toward a changed marriage – a breakthrough all the more acute in light of the tragedy that loomed only months away.
The Kennedy Mystique - Creating Camelot
	Goodman Jon 2006	This book combines arresting photography and perceptive analysis to tell the whole story of the love affair between the Kennedys and the camera, a far more complex and sophisticated relationship than we might suppose. Camelot insiders and media experts like Jackie's social secretary Letitia Baldrige, White House correspondent Hugh Sidey, historian Robert Dallek and Life magazine photo editor Barbara Baker Burrows provide rare perspective on 150 remarkable images- as historical records, as publicity, and as symbols.
The Kennedy Obsession [The American Myth of JFK]
	John Hellmann 1997	John F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. In The Kennedy Obsession, John Hellmann takes a thoroughly original approach to understanding Kennedy's star power and his carefully crafted public image. Tracing Kennedy's self-creation as diligent scholar, bashful hero, and sensitive rebel-cued by cultural figures such as Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, and Cary Grant-and the images of Kennedy in the aftermath of his assassination, Hellmann reveals the painstaking transformation of private life into public persona, of a man into perhaps the major American myth of our time.
The Kennedy Reader
	edited by David Jay 1967	Here is a collection of some of the best and best known writing in existence by and about John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Kennedy Tapes
	May Ernest R. & Zelikow Philip D. 1997	Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Oct.62 : the United States and the Soviet Union stood face to face, each brandishing enough nuclear weapons to obliterate the other's civilizations. For two weeks an executive committee, formed around elements of President Kennedy's National Security Council, debated what to do, twice coming to the brink of attacking Soviet military units in Cuba. Through it all, audio tape was rolling. These are the full, authenticated, transcripts of those recordings.
The Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters
	Fensch Thomas (editor) 2001	In the early 1960s, Nikita Khrushchev initiated a correspondence with John Kennedy in an effort to bridge gaps between the two leaders and between U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. The two leaders exchanged letters from 1960 until John Kennedy's assassination in 1963; these letters were kept Top Secret until almost the year 2000. This volume contains 120 letters between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev and they should be an invaluable aid toward understanding the years of the Kennedy administration and the Khrushchev regime.
The Kennedys and Cuba
	White Mark J. 1999	The Declassified Documentary History. In this intriguing assemblage of documents, drawn from the State Department, the Kennedy Libray, private papers, and the Assassination Records Review Board, and including newly released materials, Mark White traces the attitude and actions of the Kennedys in their fateful dealings with Castro and Cuba.
The Letters of John F. Kennedy
	edited by Martin W. Sandler 2013	John Fitzgerald Kennedy led his nation for little more than a thousand days, yet his presidency is intensely remembered, not merely as a byproduct of his tragic fate. Kennedy steered the nation away from the brink of nuclear war, initiated the first nuclear test ban treaty, created the Peace Corps, and launched America on its mission to the moon and beyond. JFK inspired a nation, particularly the massive generation of baby boomers, injecting hope and revitalizing faith in the American project. Martin Sandler's The Letters of John F. Kennedy stands out as the only book that draws on letters from and to Kennedy, as collected at the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Drawn from more than two million letters on file at the library--many never before published--this project presents readers with a portrait of both Kennedy the politician and Kennedy the man, as well as the times he lived in. Letters to and from the likes of Martin Luther King Jr, Clare Booth Luce, Pearl Buck, John Wayne, Albert Schweitzer, Linus Pauling, Willy Brandt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nikita Khruschev, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, a young John Kerry, and Ngo Dinh Diem are complemented by letters from ordinary citizens, schoolchildren, and concerned Americans. Each letter will be accompanied by lively and informative contextualization. Facsimiles of many letters will appear, along with photographs and other visual ephemera from the Kennedy Library and Museum.
The Making of a Catholic President [Kennedy vs Nixon 1960]
	Casey Shaun A. 2009	The 1960 Presidential election, ultimately won by John F.Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated - New York Governor Al Smith in 1928 - he was routed in the general election. From the outset, Kennedy saw the religion issue as the single most important obstacle on his road to the White House. In this book, Shaun Casey tells the fascinating story of how the Kennedy campaign transformed the "religion question" from a liability into an asset, making him the first (and still only) Catholic president.
The Making of the President 1960
	White Theodore H.. 1961	More than a year before the election of John F.Kennedy, Theodore H.White began to explore the secret planning and private aspirations of seven men, each of whom, in his own way, found his dreams tormented by the power that might be his in the White House. By spring, Mr White had begun to follow the open candidates as they plodded through the snows and early jousting of the primaries. Continuing through the conventions, the campaigns and the final drama of election night, he fashioned a work of contemporary history that highlights the decisions, the acts, the accidents, that created an American President, and also the cold political realities of a country upon whose decision the world of freedom waited.
The Memories - JFK 1961-1963
	Stoughton Cecil & Clifton Chester V. 1973	In 1961 President John Kennedy's friend and Military Aide, General Chester V.(Ted) Clifton assigned Captain Cecil Stoughton of the Army Signal Corps to the full-time job of keeping a photographic record of President Kennedy's days in the White House. Captain Stoughton had extraordinary opportunities to photograph, to remember JFK as President, as father, as husband, as a great human being in moments of crisis and tension, of joy and relaxation.
The Pleasure of his company
	Fay Paul B. Jr 1966	Paul B.Fay Jr and John Kennedy served together as PT Boat officers both in training and action. After the war the two men were associated as friends and campaigners. In 1961 Red Fay was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy and served until 1965. In this book, Fay delivers just what the title promises : the marvelous fun of being with JFK in his least formal, most unguarded moments.
The Presidential Portfolio - JFK
	Kenney Charles 2000	This book features more than 250 photos and documents from the JFK Presidential Library and Museum that capture the essence, style, and excitement of the Kennedy presidency. It includes an extraordinary 60-minute audio CD of JFK on the phone and at work.
The President's team (The 1963 Army-Navy game and the assassination of JFK)
	Connelly Michael 2009	The Naval Academy football team of 1963 was branded a "team of destiny" by its coach, Wayne Hardin. With Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach at quarterback and a talented group of athletes on both side of the ball, the Midshipmen indeed seemed destined for greatness that season. After winning 8 of their first 9 games, the Midshipmen were scheduled to head to Philadelphia in late November for the annual Army-Navy game, the highlight of any season for both service academies. Although as Commander in chief of all the armed services President Kennedy was expected to be impartial in the contests between the military academies, it was clear where the former PT109 Lieutenant placed his allegiances. Kennedy's firsthand relationship with Midshipmen footballers dated back to 1960, when as president-elect he met with Heisman winner Joe Bellino and the other stars of the fourth-ranked Midshipmen. Six weeks later, Bellino and 3,500 other members of the Naval Academy Brigade led the march in President Kennedy's inauguration parade. Over the next several years, the president remained a keen follower of the strong navy team. Then, the tragic events of November 22,1963 readjusted the priorities of every American citizen. The assassination of a beloved president left the nation shocked and saddened. The 44 men of the Navy football team, both as athletes and as men dedicated to serving their country, took the news particularly hard but decided to dedicate the rest of their season to the fallen president.
The remarkable Kennedys
	McCarthy Joe 1960	This book was written in 1960, before the election of JFK to President, by Joe McCarthy, a former war correspondent and a top reporter and writer of non-fiction. It is the story of John Kennedy - his early life in a close-knit, ambitious family, his initiation into a political career he never wanted, and his rapid- some say too rapid- rise to national fame.
The Road to Camelot (Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign)
	Thomas Oliphant & Curtis Wilkie 2017	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 over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election and plotted a successful course to that constituency. They hired Louis Harris—a polling entrepreneur—to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms and they charmed. They lined up party bosses, young enthusiasts, and fellow Catholics and turned the traditional party inside out. The last-minute invitation to Lyndon B. Johnson for vice president in 1956 surprised them only because they had failed to notice that he wanted it. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates. Now acclaimed, award-winning journalists Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie provide the most comprehensive account, based on a depth of personal reporting, interviews, and archives. The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they’ve interviewed surviving sources, including JFK’s sister Jean Smith, and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. From the start of the campaign in 1955 when his father tried to persuade President Johnson to run with JFK as his running mate, The Road to Camelot reveals him as a tough, shrewd political strategist who kept his eye on the prize. This is one of the great campaign stories of all time, appropriate for today’s political climate.
The search for Kennedy's PT109
	National Geographic DVD	In this DVD you can embark on a search for the truth about one of the most legendary war stories of the 20th century! Set sail with Dr Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, as he attempts to locate John Kennedy's sunken torpedo boat, PT109. Through re-creations, archival footage, eye-witness accounts, and memories of Kennedy family members, you will relive Kennedy's heroic efforts to save his crew after their collision with a Japanese destroyer. And, amid the suspense of Ballard's voyage, you will discover how the harrowing adventure of a young Navy lieutenant helped transform JFK into the future leader of his country.
The speeches of John F.Kennedy
	CD-Rom Mp3 collection	Great tribute to the oratorical mastery of the "New Frontier" President, with 46 MP3 audio speeches, commencing from the beginning of JFK's Presidential Campaign to his tragic assassination, plus 96 speech transcripts archive, spanning JFK's career from campaign to Presidency, and 42 image photo gallery, featuring JFK, his family and the White House.
The speeches of John F.Kennedy
	VHS (30 min) 1988	John F. Kennedy was the most dynamic President of recent memory. Poised and relaxed at all times, he spoke well. He was always ready with a relevant quote or a concise overview. This tape focuses on Kennedy, the public orator. Starting with the 1960 campaign, we take you on the campaign trail with major addresses and minor asides. You'll see how he sidestepped controversies with his forthright manner. And you'll see and hear every major policy address of his three years in office. All in Kennedy's own words. This unique document allows you to possess forever the history and the moment.
The speeches of Senator J.F.Kennedy - Presidential Campaign 1960
	Kennedy John Fitzgerald 1961	The Speeches, Remarks, Press Conferences and Statements of Senator John F.Kennedy in the Presidential Campaign 1960. August 1 Through November 7,1960
The strange medical saga of John F. Kennedy
	Forest Tennant 2023	When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated President on January 20, 1961, two physicians who had previously saved his life and career were in attendance in case of an emergency. Over his entire life of forty-three years, he was continually plagued with a wide array of health issues. During infancy he almost died of scarlet fever. He survived an infamous PT 109 incident during World War II. After the war he collapsed due to adrenal failure known as Addison’s Disease. At one point when he was a senator, he said he would rather die than continue tolerating his incredible back pain. To top off these incidents he had two major back surgeries, malaria, a host of infections, and what is today called celiac disease. He had been given last rites on two occasions. Just before and during his tenure in the White House of about 1000 days, his doctors began a series of innovative therapies that gave him the best health ever in the year of his assassination. About fifty years would pass before medical science was able to determine that he had a rare genetic disease called “autoimmune polyglandular syndrome” which wiped out his adrenals, thyroid, and testicles requiring hormone replacement. He developed a rare complication called “adhesive arachnoiditis” which is regarded by some as the world’s worst back pain. His strange medical saga will likely remain as “one-of-a-kind.”
The Strategy of Peace
	Kennedy John Fitzgerald 1960	"The statements contained in this volume represent my own attempt to make plain to myself and to others my thoughts on the leading questions of foreign policy that have borne down so hard on all of us" (J.F.Kennedy). As set forth in the months and years just preceding his election, President Kennedy's plans for the nation's future, including his historic 12-point foreign policy program.
The Torch is passed...
	The Kansas City Star 1964	The Associated Press Story of the death of a President. A Chronicle of 4 Days in November 1963.
The wicked wit of John F. Kennedy
	Koning Christina 2003	Brought up in a large and wealth family which is now considered "the closest thing America has to an aristocracy", President John F. Kennedy's life and career were in every way golden. Equally golden was his tongue, for aside from the great speeches that helped to define him as a world leader, he possessed a ready wit honed both at home and in politics. Using sayings and quips reported by those who knew him, as well as quotations of his own, this book presents hundreds of example of JFK's legendary wit.
Thirteen Days
	Robert F.Kennedy 1968	During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F.Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F.Kennedy.
Thirteen Days
	DVD Roger Donaldson	Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars as top White House assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell, with Bruce Greenwood featured as President John F. Kennedy, Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. While the film carries the same title as the 1969 book Thirteen Days by former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, it is in fact based on the 1997 book, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow.
To Turn the Tide
	Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (edited by John W.Gardner) 1962	A selection from President Kennedy's public statements from his election through the 1961 adjournment of congress, setting forth the goals of his first legislative year.
Tutte le Donne del Presidente
	Pino Scaccia & Anna Raviglione 2020	Book in Italian. The loves, passions, secrets, perversions of the women who have linked their history to that of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Marylin Monroe, Jackie Onassis, Maria Callas, fascinating and desired, envied and emulated, are the women laid bare in the tragic reconstruction of troubled, sick, frightened, abandoned lives. Like the scientist Albert Einstein, Marilyn's secret dream, who was not only a woman ahead of her time, but deeply loved culture and poetry, preferring Joyce, Camus and Dostoevsky. Or discovering that Ted Kennedy was probably Jackie's true great love. And Maria Callas in love with Pier Paolo Pasolini with a love that went beyond stereotypes, who died of a broken heart due to Onassis' betrayal. Finally, a cameo: the shocking pages on Lady D. From the man driving the White Uno who rammed Dody and Diana’s car in Paris to Grace Kelly’s terrible phrase: “It will be worse as we go along!”
TV First Presidential Debate "Kennedy and Nixon" - 1960
	DVD	Video of the first round of 1960 TV Presidential debates between John F. Kennery (JFK) and Richard M. Nixon.
Two Days in June [John F.Kennedy and the 48 hours that made history]
	Andrew Cohen 2016	On two consecutive days in June 1963, in two lyrical speeches, John F. Kennedy pivots dramatically and boldly on the two greatest issues of his time: nuclear arms and civil rights. In language unheard in lily white, Cold War America, he appeals to Americans to see both the Russians and the "Negroes" as human beings. His speech on June 10 leads to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963; his speech on June 11 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Based on new material—hours of recently uncovered documentary film shot in the White House and the Justice Department, fresh interviews, and a rediscovered draft speech—Two Days in June captures Kennedy at the high noon of his presidency in startling, granular detail which biographer Sally Bedell Smith calls "a seamless and riveting narrative, beautifully written, weaving together the consequential and the quotidian, with verve and authority." Moment by moment, JFK's feverish forty-eight hours unspools in cinematic clarity as he addresses "peace and freedom." In the tick-tock of the American presidency, we see Kennedy facing down George Wallace over the integration of the University of Alabama, talking obsessively about sex and politics at a dinner party in Georgetown, recoiling at a newspaper photograph of a burning monk in Saigon, planning a secret diplomatic mission to Indonesia, and reeling from the midnight murder of Medgar Evers.
Un eroe per il nostro tempo
	Ralph G. Martin 1985	Ralph G. Martin's detailed biography, packed with previously undisclosed information, offers a deeply human version of what is considered the quintessential American saga: the story of a man who ignited hope in the hearts of millions.
Visit to Ireland - 26th-29th June, 1963
	Wood Printing Works Ltd 1963	A memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, with over twenty full colour reproductions, is a complete historical record of his visit to Ireland. All the highlights of his visit, the happy and intimate, as well as the formal and impressive, are fully described, with a wealth of background information also included. Special thanks to my friend Trevor Babbs, who gave me this book!
"We'll Never Be Young Again"
	Fries Chuck and Wilson Irv 2003	This book presents a compelling account of JFK's final days. Written with remarkable detail and intimacy, this combination of history, narrative and personal stories chronicles the shared experience of shock and grief - from many different point of view - with vignettes and recollections from a wide cross-section of the population.
West Wirginia Tough Boys [Vote Buying, Fist Fighting and A President Namd JFK]
	Davis F.Keith 2003	After all these years since 1960, several of the political kingpins and civic leaders from West Virginia's past, including Raymond Chafin, Claude Ellis and Dan Dahill, candidly reminisce about growing up in poverty stricken West Virginia, getting started in politics, and eventually working with the Kennedy family during the presidential primary. Vote-buying, intimidation and free liquor. It's politics as it will never be again. It's the tale of "West Virginia Tough Boys".
What the President does all day [Memorial Edition]
	Hoopes Roy 1964	This book, first published in 1962 by the John Day Company, explains in 90 photographs and brief text what the President of the United States does all day. His day, any day, is filled with the pressure of meeting with his Cabinet, greeting high officials from foreign lands, preparing important bills for Congress, travelling at home and abroad, working at his desk, reporting to the people and sharing a moment of relaxation with his family. Because this book is a tribute to the office of the Presidency and more particularly to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, this Memorial Edition of the complete hardcover book was reprinted by Dell Publishing Company in memory of the late President.
Why England Slept
	Kennedy John F. 1961	Written by John F.Kennedy in 1940 when he was still in College and reprinted in 1961, when he was President, this book is an appraisal of the tragic events of the thirties that led to World War II. It is an account of England's unpreparedness for war and a study of the shortcomings of democracy when confronted by the menace of totalitarianism.
Young John Kennedy
	Schoor Gene 1963	The reader will find this biography a fascinating study of the 35th President. Private conversations, letters, humorous and tragic glimpses of school and home life, paint a vivid portrait of John F.Kennedy... a young man destined to make history.
Young Man in the White House
	Levine I.E. 1969	Beginning with his childhood struggle to overcome illness and match te achievements of a remarkable older brother, the book tells of his heroism as a World War II PT-Boat skipper and describes his personal growth as an individual. It gives a graphic account of his determined effort to inject a new spirit of idealism into the American people and to preserve the peace of the world.