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Books 151 - 200
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 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 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 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 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.

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.

 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     

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