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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.

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!”

Video of the first round of 1960 TV  Presidential debates between John F. Kennery (JFK) and Richard M. Nixon.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.