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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was loved and admired the world over, and the auction of her personal belongings in April 1996 created a media frenzy. In this book there is the behind-the-scenes  story of what has been deemed "the estate auction of the century". For 4 days the world stood by awestruck as personal belongings of the First Lady and American icon, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, were sold at the gavel. Held in New York by Sotheby's - the world's most prestigious auction house - the results were nothing short of spectacular, with a first night's total sales of 4.47 Million $.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was one of the world's most celebrate women. This is the story of her life from her childhood through her reign as America's First Lady.
Thoroughly documented, this is an affectionate portrait of the years, events and people who mattered in the incredible life of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.

From the distinguished author of 18 international bestselling biographies comes the first complete account of perhaps the most famous woman of the twentieth century. In this book, Donald Spoto separates her from the many legend, the gossip and the plain untruths that have obscured Jackie's life.
It is based on the author's unprecedented access to a wealth of new material gleaned from her own writings, from documents at the school she attended, from the archives of the JFK Library and from interviews with those who knew her best.

Book plus 8 Audio CD.
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband’s legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late president as well as the recollections of those closest to him throughout his extraordinary political career. For the rest of her life, the famously private Jacqueline Kennedy steadfastly refused to discuss her memories of those years, but beginning that March, she fulfilled her obligation to future generations of Americans by sitting down with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and recording an astonishingly detailed and unvarnished account of her experiences and impressions as the wife and confidante of John F. Kennedy. The tapes of those sessions were then sealed and later deposited in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum upon completion, in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy’s wishes.
The resulting eight-and-a-half hours of material comprise a unique and compelling record of a tumultuous era, providing fresh insights on the many significant people and events that shaped JFK’s presidency, but also shedding new light on the man behind the momentous decisions.
As told by Mrs. Kennedy, here are JFK’s unscripted opinions on a host of revealing subjects, including his thoughts and feelings about his brothers, Robert and Ted, and his take on world leaders past and present, giving us perhaps the most informed, genuine, and immediate portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy we shall ever have. Mrs. Kennedy’s urbane perspective, her candor, and her flashes of wit also give us our clearest glimpse into the active mind of a remarkable First Lady.
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s inauguration, Caroline Kennedy and the Kennedy family are now releasing these beautifully restored recordings with accompanying annotations and photos from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library as well as other sources. Introduced and annotated by renowned presidential historian Michael Beschloss, these interviews will add an exciting new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of President Kennedy and his time and make the past come alive through the words and voice of an eloquent eyewitness to history.

This beautifully illustrated book celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy's emergence as America's First Lady and explores her enduring global influence on style and fashion.

This booklet is a collection of five articles about Jacqueline by Katherine Anne Porter :
1. Her dreams as a girl
2. Her prayers as a woman
3. Her strength as a wife
4. Her fears as a mother 
5. Her greatest lesson in courage

This revelatory, memorable book by the dean of America's Kennedy writers begins where the bestseller "A Woman named Jackie" left off, going even further into the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Lester David evokes in fascinating detail what happened to Jackie after her marriage to Aristotle Onassis. He explores the life of a mature Jackie : a woman who associated little with Kennedy clan while continuing to look after her children.

One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies - easily read by children of eight and up- today's youngster is swept right into history.

This book is Lowe's intimate reminiscence of this extraordinary woman and her husband as they began their march into history - from the lonely, anonymous days on the endless campaign road to the moment  of ultimate victory.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - better known as Jackie O. to the tabloids, "the deb" to the Kennedy Clan and the 35th First Lady to historians - is easily one of the most recognizable presidential wives. She remains the model of the proper American woman. But what was Jackie O. hiding behind those big, dark shades?
From the New York society upbringing to her time in the White House to her days spent as a Doubleday editor, this book is the ultimate biography of a woman everyone recognized but few knew.

Despite hundreds of books and thousands of articles on Jackie Kennedy, surprisingly little is known about her mother's role in her life and achievements. Often dismissed as a social climber who faded into the woodwork after she divorced Jackie's father - the dashing, disreputable "Black Jack" Bouvier - and married the rich Hugh D.Auchincloss, Janet not only played a pivotal part in Jackie's own wedding to JFK, but often served as a stand-in for Jackie during the White House years, and helped her cope with John and Caroline after the assassination.
This book explores this fascinating mother-daughter relationship and is filled wit histories that shed new light on the personal life of an American icon.

JFK & Jackie - Unseen Archives

Hill Tim
2003

Joan, the Reluctant Kennedy

David Lester
1974

John and Caroline

Spada James
2001

Just Friends and Brave Enemies

Kennedy Robert F.
1963

Just Jackie : Her Private Years

Klein Edward
1998

Kennedy 5 Giugno 1968 - Quasi una Leggenda

Leonardo Valente
1968

Kennedy Weddings : A Family Album

Mulvaney Jay
1999

Kennedy White House : Family Life and Pictures, 1961-63

Sferrazza Anthony Carl
2001

Kennedys - Stories of Life & Death from an American Family

Willis Clint
2001

Kennedys - The complete 8-parts series

DVD
2011

Kick
[The true story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's forgotten sister and the heir to Chatsworth]

Byrne Paula
2016

La Maledizione dei Kennedy

Klein Edward
2003

L'eredità dei Kennedy.

Theodore C.Sorensen
1970

This book is not biography, but it traces the genesis, development, contrasts and contents of the concepts as they evolved in the lives and behind-the-scences thoughts of these two remarkable brothers. Because Ted Sorensen was intimately involved for sixteen years in the shaping of that legacy, his first-hand account provides historically valuable answers to questions involving Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy.

Les Kennedy

Beugne' Richard
2013

Life with Rose Kennedy

Gibson Barbara,
with Latham Caroline
1986

Living with the Kennedys - The Joan Kennedy Story

Chellis Marcia
1985

Make gentle the life of this world
 [The Vision of Robert F.Kennedy]

edited by
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
1999

"How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece charmed and captivated a Nation".
The fascinating true story of  Legend's celebrated visit - and the cultural Ambassador who helped bring her to America.
Sent as a personal loan to the President and Mrs Kennedy by the French government, the famous painting arrived in the States on December 19,1962, where it was exhibited in Washington, D.C., and New York for fifty-two days.

For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the secrete Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During those four years, he went from being a reluctant guardin to a fircely loyal watchdog and, in many ways, her closest friend.
Now, looking back fifty years, Clint Hill tells his story for the first time, offering a tender, enthralling, and tragic portrayal of how a Secret Service agent who started life in a North Dakota orphanage became the most trusted man in the life of the First Lady who captivated first the nation and then the world.

In this landmark work, critically acclaimed biographer Barbara Leaming has written the first full account - poignant and deeply sympathetic- of Jaqueline Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of John F.Kennedy's presidency.

Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Larger-than-life rivalries have always fuelled American public life, but even in this context the visceral antagonism between Johnson and Kennedy was extraordinary - propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views and an abiding animosity. Until 1963 the two men were held in an uneasy truce by their allegiance to John F.Kennedy, but fate and personal ambition would drive them apart, into a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible.
Drawing on previously unexamined recordings and documents, as well as memoirs, biographies and scores of personal interviews, Jeff Shesol weaves the threads of this story into a tight and gripping narrative that reflects the profound impact of this relationship on politics, civil rights, the war on poverty and the war in Vietnam.

Reading this book in its entirety, one can fully understand the complexities of Jacqueline Kennedy's life and personality.
The author, Mary Gallagher, was uniquely situated to understand the real woman beneath the goddess-figure that the world has made of Jacqueline Kennedy, having been her personal secretary for eight years. She joined her in 1954 shortly after her marriage to Senator John F.Kennedy staying with her through the White House years.

When the newly elected president John F.Kennedy appointed his younger brother attorney general, there was a firestorm of criticism. Not only was the nepotism blatant, but Robert Kennedy had never tried a case in court. In addition, he was considered ruthless, highly politicized, and intemperate.
Ironically, this young man, widely thought to be unqualified, went on to become one of the most active, effective attorneys general in history.
Goldfarb tells the tale of how, under Kennedy's hands-on direction, law-enforcement agencies came together, pioneering new laws were crafted to fight organized crime and corruption.

Robert Kennedy's abbreviated run for the presidency in 1968 has assumed almost mythical proportions in American memory. His campaign has been romanticized because of its tragic end, but also because of the foreign and domestic crises that surrounded it. Yet while most media coverage initially focused on Kennedy's opposition to the Vietnam War as the catalyst of his candidacy, another issue commanded just as much of his attention. That issue was poverty. Stumping across the country, he repeated the same anti-poverty themes before college students in Kansas and Indiana, loggers and women factory workers in Oregon, farmers in Nebraska, and business groups in New York. Although his calls to action sometimes met with apathy, he refused to modify his message. "if they don't care" he told one aide "the hell with them".

Intense controversy surrounds the lives of the Kennedy brothers : John, Robert and Edward Kennedy have all been the subject of close scrutiny for the latter part of the 20th century.
Based on his meticulous research, Mel Ayton attempts to sort fact from the fiction and to establish the truth about the three Kennedy brothers.

As a friend, advisor and attorney general to his brother, John F.Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy stood at the heart of Washington politics.
Harry Benson's images capture unprecedented intimate family outings and outdoor adventures with friends alongside every moment of Kennedy's brief but unforgettable. presidential run, from his announcement of his candidacy on St Patrick's day,1968 and the fervour and excitement of his days on the campaign trail, and all the way through his shocking assassination in Los Angeles and the long funeral procession to Arlington Cemetery.

Robert Kennedy died from an assassin's bullet on June 6,1968.
In 1993, commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of that tragedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edwin O.Guthman, a confidant of RFK's, and C.Richard Allen  assembled a moving and eloquent volume of his speeches.

Book written just after Robert Kennedy's assassination. It is a brief history of his life by Jay Jacobs, with an eyewitness account of the last 36 hrs by Kristi N. Witker.

"RFK Must Die : the Assassination of Bobby Kennedy" is a new investigative documentary by Shane O'Sullivan, author of "Who killed Bobby?", that examins the events of that night and presents compelling evidence that Sirhan did not act alone.  Witnesses placed Sirhan several feet in front of Kennedy yet the fatal shot came from one inch behind. And even under hypnosis, Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting.
Leading psychiatrists believe he was a "Manchurian Candidate", hypnotically programmed to kill Kennedy or act as a decoy for the real assassin.

Marking the 40th anniversary of Kennedy's Indianapolis speech, this books explains what brought the politician to Indiana that day, and explore the characters and events of the 1968 Indiana Democratic presidential primary in which Kennedy, who was an underdog, had a decisive victory.

James Hilty offers an important new study of RFK as lifelong defender and promoter of his brother, President John Kennedy. This fascinating perceptive biography reveals a man struggling in his brother's shadow as he strives to confirm his own individuality as campaign manager, attorney general, and younger brother/confidant.

Evan Thomas shows RFK as a human being, to bring to life an extraordinarily complex man who was at once kind and cruel, devious and honest, fearful and brave.
Thomas has unusual access to his subject's life. He is the first biographer since A.Schlesinger to see RFK's private papers, and he interviewed all of Kennedy's closest aides and advisers.

Arthur Schlesinger chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful. His account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s.

Drawing on hundreds of recently declassified documents and with the cooperation of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's relatives, among others, NYT bestselling author Charles Higham chronicles the life of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in this dramatic, moving biography. During her times of glory, agony and ecstasy, Rose gave birth to nine children and to an unforgettable vision of the American Dream.

Leo Damore has obtained confidential documents, interviewed investigators and finally persuaded a key witness to talk. This book is fascinating for its wealth of detail. Here, for the first time, is the whole truth about Chappaquiddick : the real events of that dark, muggy summer night - and the shocking cover-up that wealth and power wrought.

This book is a new exploration of the murder of Robert F.Kennedy and a critique of U.S: justice system. Investigative journalist William Klaber and political science professor Philip Melanson have spent six years examining the crime. After poring over previously secret LAPD and FBI files, interviewing scores of witnesses and investigators, and talking with Sirhan in prison, they conclude that Sirhan may not have acted alone and that police investigation and courtroom defence were deeply flawed.

Italian book.
Collection of Robert F.Kennedy's speeches from 1964 to 1968.

This book gives us a portrait of the family that has haunted the American imagination for forty years.
It explores the bond between Jack and Bobby and the part it played in their rise and fall.

"Sons of Camelot" is the compelling story of the Kennedy sons and grandsons in the aftermath of the assassination of President john F.Kennedy.
It is the mot intimate biography ever written about the Kennedys, with the cooperation of family and friends at a moment when they are ready to talk with insight and depth about their lives. Among the many stunning portraits in the book is the definitive account of John F.Kennedy Jr's life, including interviews with his ten closest friends, none of whom has ever talked to an author before.
Based on five years of rigorous research and unprecedented cooperation from the five surviving sons of Robert Kennedy , the four Shriver sons, Maria Shriver, and other Kennedys, "Sons of Camelot" is not only the most authoritative account,  it is by far the most revealing book ever writtem about these lives.
Falling far short of teh great ambitions their patriarch, Joseph P.Kennedy, envisioned for his family, the lives of his youthful progeny are instead characterized by overwhelming drama full of exalted aspirations, notable achievements, and the most spectacular mishaps, excesses and tragedies.