BP-JFK collection

Books 201 - 250
The Real Making of the President (Kennedy, Nixon and the 1960 Election)
	W.J. Rorabaugh 2009	War hero, champion of labor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, JFK was long on charisma. Despite a less than liberal record, he assumed the image of liberal hero—thanks to White and other journalists who were shamelessly manipulated by the Kennedy campaign. Rorabaugh instead paints JFK as the ideological twin of Nixon and his equal as a bare-knuckled politician, showing that Kennedy's hard-won, razor-thin victory was attributable less to charisma than to an enormous amount of money, an effective campaign organization, and television image-making. The 1960 election, Rorabaugh argues, reflects the transition from the dominance of old-style boss and convention politics to the growing significance of primaries, race, and especially TV—without which Kennedy would have been neither nominated nor elected. He recounts how JFK cultivated delegates to the 1960 Democratic convention; quietly wooed the still-important party bosses; and used a large personal organization, polls, and TV advertising to win primaries. JFK's master stroke, however, was choosing as a running mate Lyndon Johnson, whose campaigning in the South carried enough southern states to win the election. On the other side, Rorabaugh draws on Nixon's often-ignored files to take a close look at his dysfunctional campaign, which reflected the oddities of a dark and brooding candidate trapped into defending the Eisenhower administration. Yet the widely detested Nixon won almost as many votes as the charismatic Kennedy, even though Democrats outnumbered Republicans by three to two. This leads Rorabaugh to reexamine the darker side of the election: the Republicans' charges of vote fraud in Illinois and Texas, the use of money to prod or intimidate, manipulation of the media, and the bulldozing of opponents.
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 Story of John F. Kennedy 100 Years after his Birth
	Kimberly Sarmiento 2017	Book published in 2017, 100 years after the Birth of President John F.Kennedy in 1917. He was the youngest man ever elected president. Learn more about President Kennedy's life and his short, but impactful, time in office. Take a closer look at the life of one of the most beloved presidents in American history.
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.
These Few Precious Days [The Final Year of Jack with Jackie]
	Christopher Andersen 2013	The New York Times bestselling author presents the most famous couple in the world in their last year together, answering lingering questions about this still-mesmerizing marriage. “The days dwindle down, to a precious few . . .” —from “September Song,” JFK’s favorite They were the original power couple— outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare, behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kennedys in their final year together, #1 New York Times bestselling biographer Christopher Andersen shows us a side of JFK and Jackie we’ve never seen before. Tender, intimate, complex, and, at times, explosive, theirs is a love story unlike any other—filled with secrets, scandals, and bombshells that could never be fully revealed . . . until now. Including: · Stunning new details about the Kennedys’ rumored affairs—hers as well as his—and how they ultimately overcame all odds to save their marriage · The president’s many premonitions of his own death, and how he repeatedly tried to pull out of his last fateful trip to Dallas · Shocking revelations about how the couple, unaware of the dangers, became dependent on amphetamine injections, the real reason— according to his longtime personal physician— for JFK’s notorious libido, and how the White House hid his many serious medical problems from the public · How the tragic death of their infant son Patrick led to an emotional outpouring from the president that surprised even their closest friends—and brought JFK and Jackie closer than they had ever been · Touching firsthand accounts of the family’s most private moments, before and after the assassination Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted with the Kennedys’ inner circle—from family members and lifelong friends to key advisors and political confidantes—Andersen takes us deeper inside the world of the president and his first lady than ever before. Unsparing yet sympathetic, bigger than life but all too real, These Few Precious Days captures the ups and downs of a marriage, a man, and a woman, the memories of which will continue to fascinate and inspire for generations to come.
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.
Tredici giorni all'Armageddon
	Michele Cosentino 2015	Book in Italian. October 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Military Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. "Thirteen Days to Armageddon" analyzes the numerous events that unfolded before, during, and after the crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union, which erupted in October 1962 following the installation and discovery of ballistic missile launchers on the island of Cuba. More specifically, the book examines the Kremlin's preparations for Operation Anadyr, Washington's initial reactions to the discovery of the missiles, and the air and naval operations, and the dramatic background to the incidents, conducted by American forces, with the US Navy at the forefront, to implement the White House-decreed naval quarantine and achieve the removal of Soviet offensive weapons based in Cuba. A crisis that only today, more than forty years later, seems likely to be resolved with the rapprochement between the two nations.
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.