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1962 - Baseball and America in the Time of JFK |
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David Krell
2021 |
In the watershed year of 1962, events and
people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw
five no-hitters, a rare National League playoff between the Giants and the
Dodgers, and a thrilling seven-game World Series where the Yankees won
their twentieth title.
Baseball was expanding with the Houston Colt .45s and the New York Mets,
who tried to fill the National League void in New York. Despite their
record, the '62 Mets revived National League baseball in a city thirsty
for an alternative to the Yankees.
Earlier that year in Los Angeles, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley launched
Dodger Stadium, a state-of-the-art ballpark in Chavez Ravine and a new
icon for the city.
Beyond baseball, 1962 was also a momentous year in American history: Mary
Early became the first Black graduate of the University of Georgia, First
Lady Jackie Kennedy revealed the secrets of the White House in a
television special, John Glenn became the first astronaut to orbit Earth,
and JFK stared down Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Weaving the
1962 baseball season within the social fabric of this era, David Krell
delivers a fascinating book as epochal as its subject. |
11.22.63 |
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King
Stephen
2011 |
Novel.
Jake Epping is an English teacher in Lisbon Falls,Maine, who makes extra
money teaching in an adult education programme.
One day, he receives an essay from one of his students - a harrowing first
person story about the night, fifty years earlier, when Harry Dunning's
father came home and killed Harry's mother, his sister, and his brother
with a sledgehammer.
Later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges an
extraordinary secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake
on an insane - an insanely possible - mission to try to prevent the
Kennedy assassination.
Inspired by his desire to put things right for Harry Dunning, Jake leaves
a world of iPods and mobile phones for a new world of Elvis and JFK, of
big American cars, root beers and Lindy Hopping. It is a haunting world of
a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school
librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a
life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
With extraordinary imaginative power, King explores the culture of the era
and weaves it into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
11.22.63 is a love story, a tribute to a simpler time and place and a
heartstopping "What if" tour de force the like of which no-one has ever
read. |
22/11/63 |
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King
Stephen
2011 |
Novel.
Italian version of Stephen King's book "11.22.63". |
A prova di errore |
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Burdick
Eugene & Wheeler Harvey
1968 |
Italian version (1968) of the novel
"Fail-Safe"(1962).
On the cover of 1968 Italian edition :"il romanzo che non aveva
previsto la morte di John F.Kennedy ma quella di Jacqueline".
Fail-Safe is a best-selling novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey
Wheeler. The story was initially serialized in three installments in the
Saturday Evening Post on October 13, 20, and 27, 1962, during the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
The popular and critically acclaimed novel, released in late October 1962,
was then adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney
Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, and Walter Matthau. In
2000, the novel was adapted again for a televised play, broadcast live in
black and white on CBS. All three works have the same theme—accidental
nuclear war—with the same plot. |
A Time to Heal
[Autobiography of Gerald R.Ford] |
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Ford Gerald
R.
1979 |
This book is at once the autobiography of a
political career and the human story of a dedicated but unassuming man
propelled by history into taking on the immense burdens of the Presidency.
This is a refreshingly
unpretentious yet vivid book. Jerry Ford simply tells it as it was : the
journey from modest Midwestern beginnings to the White House - the tough
choices, the personal sacrifices, the joys of success, the mistakes, the
rousing partisan battles, the moments of terror during attempted
assassinations, the times of fear when his beloved wife faced cancer. |
A Very Private Woman
[The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer] |
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Burleigh
Nina
1999 |
In 1964, Mary
Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top
CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary
Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F.Kennedy, whom she had
known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had
kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben
Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in
her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source
of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised
book, the first to examine this haunting story. |
Ambassador's
Journal |
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Galbraith
John Kenneth
1969 |
A few days after the election in 1960,
President Kennedy called Mr Galbraith to tell him he was to be his
Ambassador to India. As he tells in the book, Mr Galbraith decided that it
would be an interesting time and resolved to keep a journal. So he did and
this is it. Never before has there been such an expert account of exactly
what an American ambassador does.
His diary will be counted one of the most important, certainly one of the
most readable, of the books on the Kennedy years. |
American
Tabloid |
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Ellroy
James
2001 |
Italian
version (2001).
American Tabloid is a 1995 novel by James Ellroy. The novel chronicles
three rogue American law enforcement officers from November 22, 1958
through November 22, 1963. Each becomes entangled in a web of
interconnecting associations between the FBI, CIA, and the Mafia, which
eventually leads to their involvement in the John F. Kennedy
assassination. James Ellroy dedicated American Tabloid "To NAT SOBEL."
American Tabloid was Time's Best Book (Fiction) for 1995.It is the first
novel of the Underworld USA Trilogy, followed by The Cold Six Thousand and
Blood's a Rover. |
ARI
- The life and times of Aristotle Onassis |
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Evans Peter
1986 |
The Greek Tycoon. The
Lover. The
Legend. Here is the real
Aristotle Onassis, the man behind the world's most publicized dynasty.
Based on actual interviews with the "Golden Greek" himself... as well as
those who knew, loved and feared him... ARI is the definitive portrait of
one of the most ruthless, powerful and passionate men of all time. |
Arlington National
Cemetery |
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Dieterle Lorraine Jacyno
2001 |
This book is a
memorial to America's heroes and heroines, those who sacrificed their lives
for our country or contributes to its enduring history. The 140 colour
photographs are a visual memento of all that Arlington has to offer, from
the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns to the commemorative
ceremonies. JFK tomb is at Arlington. |
As I
saw it |
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Rusk Dean
1990 |
Rusk's government career spanned the birth of
the United Nations, the creation of Israel, the Korean War. As Secretary
of State to John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he was a key figure in the
Bay of Pigs decision, the Cuban missile crisis, the erection of the Berlin
Wall and, most overwhelmingly, the Vietnam War. In this autobiography,
that grew out of a father-son relationship strained by profound
disagreement over that war, Rusk reveals the inner workings of his public
life. |
Billie Sol
"The Man who knows
who shot JFK" |
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Estes Pam
2004 |
Pam Estes, Billie Sol's daughter, tells the
story of his troubles and triumphs as a participant.
A child when the first scandal broke in the early sixties, she was too
young to understand what was happening to her family.
An adult when the government pursued her father during his parole period,
she and other members of her family were threatened with indictment for
allegedly helping him elude his federal investigations.
Read the Epilogue for daddy's conclusions about who shot JFK. |
Blonde |
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Joyce Carol
Oates
2021 |
Italian
version.
Joyce Carol Oates transforms all of Marilyn
Monroe's lives into a novel: much more than a calendar sex symbol, with
her contradictions and fragilities Marilyn has entered the eternity of
myth. From solitary teenager to planetary beauty, but also insecure woman,
determined young woman, inconstant lover, child in love, playmate and girl
fighting with the mirror, venerated actress and patient in analysis, woman
with many lovers and little love, dead prematurely and still alive in the
collective memory.
Joyce Carol Oates, with her extraordinary narrative talent, manages to mix
history and fiction in a novel in which life is inextricably intertwined
with fantasy, a literary masterpiece in which the greatest diva of all
time lives again. |
Bombshell - The
night Bobby Kennedy killed Marilyn Monroe |
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Mike
Rothmiller & Douglas Thompson
2021 |
Conspiracy
book.
‘Bobby called. He’s coming to California. He wants to see me.’Drawing on
secret police files, Marilyn Monroe’s private diary and never before
published first-hand testimony, this book proves that Robert Kennedy was
directly responsible for her death. It details the legendary star’s
tumultuous personal involvement with him and his brother, President John
Kennedy, and how they plotted to silence her.The new evidence and
revelatory statements are provided by Mike Rothmiller who, as a detective
of the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID) of the LAPD, had
direct personal access to hundreds of restricted LAPD files on exactly
what happened at Marilyn Monroe’s Californian home on August 5, 1962.With
his training and investigator’s knowledge, Rothmiller used that
confidential information to get to the heart of the matter, to the people
who were there the night Marilyn died – two of whom played major roles in
the cover-up – and the wider conspiracy to protect the Kennedys whatever
the collateral damage.There will be those with doubts, but to them, the
lawman – who directed international intelligence operations targeting
organized crime – says the printed, forensic and oral evidence are totally
convincing. He insists: ‘If I presented my evidence in any court of law,
I’d get a conviction.’ |
Camelot's Cousin
[The Spy who
Betrayed Kennedy] |
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David R.
Stokes
2013 |
When a Dad tries to dig a
hole in his Northern Virginia yard to bury the remains of the family pet,
he chances upon something buried years before—a mysterious briefcase. Its
contents include a journal with cryptic writing. The father turns to his
friend—and boss—Templeton Davis, a former Rhodes scholar and popular
national radio talk show host, for help figuring out what he’s found.
They soon realize that they are in possession of materials that were
hidden more than 60 years earlier by a notorious deep cover agent for the
Soviet Union—Kim Philby. And buried with the materials were clues to a
great secret—the identity of someone else, the most effective spy in the
history of Cold War espionage.
Long a mere footnote in history, the story of this man’s treachery reaches
the pinnacles of power and geopolitics. It's a story that begins just
before the Second World War breaks out and reaches the depths of the Cold
War that followed.
The trail leads to a picturesque town in Vermont, the streets of New York
City, the corridors of power in Washington, DC—but most importantly,
Oxford, England, where Davis realizes that the beautiful city of spires on
the Thames was once also a city of spies.
The Oxford spies may never have reached the level of public notoriety of
the Cambridge spies--but clearly the story had never been completely
known—or told. And investigating British spies was a very dangerous mine
of detail in which to dig, a fact borne out by a couple of suspicious
deaths left in the wake of Templeton Davis’s travels.
Davis discovers that at the moment when the world came closest to
unparalleled disaster, secrets were being betrayed at the highest levels.
He would also come to understand that what he had learned connected to a
time of great sorrow for mankind. This is ultimate Kennedy assassination
conspiracy story.
At a crucial moment, Templeton Davis quickly develops a bond borne of
necessity with a beautiful young woman from Russia—someone with her own
secrets. And when what she knows is combined with what the famous
broadcaster has learned, the two unlikely heroes find themselves in grave
danger, yet poised to rock the world.
Camelot's Cousin is a skillfully crafted example of both espionage fiction
and historical fiction. And it will leave the reader wondering if it could
have really happened. |
Campaigning & The
Presidency 1892-1974 |
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The Campaigns & Campaigners for The Nation's
Highest Office and the crucial decisions they made that changed the course
of U.S. & World History.
10 1/2 Hrs Packed into 155 MP3s on 1 CD. |
Candidate Images in
Presidential Elections |
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Hacker Kenneth L.
1995 |
This books presents a compendium of
up-to-date theory and research on image-making in U.S. Presidential
elections. The contributors to the work, among the best-known in the field
of political communication, describe and explain how presidential
election results hinge on voter perceptions of the candidates and how
candidates seek to project the images through to attract votes. |
CIA targets Fidel |
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CIA
1996 |
Declassified in 1994, this
secret report was prepared in 1967 for the CIA on its own plots to
assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro. Under pressure in 1967 when the press
were probing the alliance with the Mafia in these murderous schemes, the
CIA produced this remarkably frank, single copy report stamped "secret-
eyes only".
Included in the book is an exclusive commentary by Division General Fabian
Escalante, the former head of Cuba's counterintelligence body. |
Counselor |
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Sorensen Ted
2008 |
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's
closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience
counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.
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Da Kennedy a Watergate
[Quindici anni di
vita americana] |
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Colombo
Furio
1974 |
Italian
book.
Fifteen years of American history, from 1960 to 1974, as seen by famous
Italian journalist Furio Colombo. |
Dalla Rinascita al Declino
[Storia
internazionale dell'Italia repubblicana] |
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Antonio
Varsori
2022 |
Italian
book.
Using a wide range of sources, Antonio Varsori reconstructs the entire
history of the Italian position on the international scene from the end of
the Second World War to today.
In the cover President John F.Kennedy with Italian
Prime minister Amintore Fanfani. |
Dallas - Then and
Now |
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Fitzgerald
Ken
2001 |
It
would be a travesty if Dallas were only ever remembered in conjunction
with a single vile moment in American history that transpired on November
22,1963 , resulting in the assassination of President John F.Kennedy.
Instead it should be remembered for the determination and perseverance of
those who have fought and labored to build a city of over one million
people. Chosen from over one million early photographs catalogued by the
Dallas Library, the images included in this book illustrate how a modern
city grew from a single log cabin. |
Dallas, 22 Novembre
1963 |
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Braver Adam
2008 |
Italian version of the book "November 22,
1963: A Novel" by Adam Graver.
This novel chronicles the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination and
explores the intersection of stories and memories and how they represent
and mythologize that defining moment in history. Jackie's story is
interwoven with the stories of real people intimately connected with that
day: a man who shares cigarettes with Jackie outside the trauma room; a
motorcycle policeman flanking the motorcade; Abe Zapruder, who caught the
assassination on film; the White House servants waiting for Jackie to
return; and the morticians overseeing President Kennedy’s autopsy. |
Dea : Le vite
segrete di Marilyn Monroe |
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Anthony
Summers
2022 |
Italian version of the book ""Goddess: the
secret lives of Marilyn Monroe" (1985).
The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the
year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major
Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes
'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will' Guardian
More than half a century after her death, Marilyn Monroe is arguably still
one of the most famous people in the world. Her life was a contrast of
public brilliance and private misery, her death a tragedy suffused by dark
questions - about her relations with President John F. Kennedy and his
brother Robert. Drawing on more than 600 first-hand interviews, Anthony
Summers offers the classic, definitive biography of a woman who captivated
the world. Marilyn's tragic story is clouded by gossip-reporting more than
almost any other. GODDESS, however, delivers new, fully documented yet
exciting fact.
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Dealey Plaza |
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Abbott
Arlinda
2003 |
Long before Nov.22,1963 the Dealey Plaza site
was an important Dallas landmark. It was at this location in 1841 that
John Neely Bryan founded what would become the city of Dallas. This book
covers the story of this place. |
Dearest Madame |
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Irma Hunt
1978 |
U.S. Presidents have always been human, and
even in the days when women's public influence was limited, their
private influence was, as it is now, equal to men. In this book there is
the story of seven women who were loved by- but not married to- seven
American Presidents (G.Washington, T.Jefferson, G.Cleveland, W.Harding,
F.D.Roosevelt, H.Eisenhower and J.F.Kennedy). |
Decision-Making
in the WHite House |
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Theodore C.
Sorensen
1963 |
Theodore C.
Sorensen was Special Counsel to the President of the United States. He
first joined the staff of the then Senator John F. Kennedy upon the
latter's entry to the Senate in January,1953. He was names one of the Ten
Outstanding Young Men of the Year in 1961 by the United States Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
This book is based on the Gino Speranza Lectures for 1963, delivered at
Columbia University on April 18 and May 19, 1963. |
Dialoghi della Nuova
Frontiera |
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Luigi Preti
1970 |
In Italian.
"Dialoghi della Nuova Frontiera" is a theatrical script about John Kennedy
and his "New Frontier", written in 1970 from Luigi Preti
(1914-2009), historical leader of PSDI (Social Democratic Italian party) ,
a member of the Constituent Assembly and more times minister in
Italian government.
The term New Frontier was used by liberal, Democratic presidential
candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United
States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America
to support him. The phrase developed into a label for his administration's
domestic and foreign programs. |
Disobbedienza e
democrazia
[Lo spirito della
ribellione] |
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Howard
Zinn
2003 |
Italian
version of the book "The Zinn Reader. Writings on Disobedience and
Democracy".
.No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as
Howard Zinn. His A People's History of the United States has gone into
more than 25 printings and sold over 400,000 copies. It is rare that a
historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while
refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style
from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his
subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each
of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity can
mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one
voice.
The Zinn Reader represents the first time Zinn has attempted to present
the depth, and breadth, of his concerns in one volume. The result is a big
book, and a monumental book, one that will remain, alongside A People's
History of the United States, as an essential and necessary Zinn text.
One of the chapters in the book is: "Kennedy: The Reluctant Emancipator" |
Dr. Feelgood |
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Richard A.
Lertzman & William J.Birnes
2013 |
The Shocking Story of the
Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn,
Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures.
Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F.
Kennedy code-named “Dr. Feelgood,” developed a unique “energy formula”
that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic
figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank
Sinatra, and Elvis. JFK received his first injection (a special mix of
“vitamins and hormones,” according to Jacobson) just before his first
debate with Vice President Richard Nixon. The shot into JFK’s throat not
only cured his laryngitis, but also diminished the pain in his back,
allowed him to stand up straighter, and invigorated the tired candidate.
Kennedy demolished Nixon in that first debate and turned a tide of
skepticism about Kennedy into an audience that appreciated his energy and
crispness. What JFK didn’t know then was that the injections were actually
powerful doses of a combination of highly addictive liquid methamphetamine
and steroids.
Author and researcher Rick Lertzman and New York Times bestselling author
Bill Birnes reveal heretofore unpublished material about the mysterious
Dr. Feelgood. Through well-researched prose and interviews with
celebrities including George Clooney, Jerry Lewis, Yogi Berra, and Sid
Caesar, the authors reveal Jacobson’s vast influence on events such as the
assassination of JFK, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy-Khrushchev
Vienna Summit, the murder of Marilyn Monroe, the filming of the C. B.
DeMille classic The Ten Commandments, and the work of many of the great
artists of that era. Jacobson destroyed the lives of several famous
patients in the entertainment industry and accidentally killed his own
wife, Nina, with an overdose of his formula.
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Executive action |
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Donald Freed & Mark Lane
1973 |
Novel written
by Donald Freed and Mark Lane.
Written in the form of novel, it details the three months leading up to
the JFK Assissination, and describes a high-level conspiracy involving
Texas oil interests, the Military and Intelligence agencies, and
incorporates Lane's own research as well as elements from Jim Garrison's
New Orleans investigation of the Assassination and the plot outlined in
the book "Farewell America."
It details a trained assissination team supervised by a "technician" who
is overseen by a CIA case officer who reports to high ranking Intelligence
officer. The novel also includes an Oswald impersonator and is
well-written using a series of scenes by dates, as if it were a play or
screen-play. |
Fair vs Meredith
[U.S.
Supreme Court Transcript of record] |
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U.S.
Supreme Court
1962 |
This was a
desegregation suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Mississippi on May 31, 1961 involving the desegregation of the
University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Plaintiff, civil rights activist
James Meredith, claimed that he had been denied admission to Ole Miss
solely because of his race.
Initially, Meredith filed for a temporary restraining order with his
complaint. This motion was denied by the district court because it found
that there was evidence to conclude that Meredith was not denied admission
to Ole Miss solely because of his race; rather, he did not meet the Ole
Miss entrance requirements. 199 F. Supp. 754 (S.D. Miss. 1961). The Fifth
Circuit upheld this decision. Even though the Fifth Circuit admitted that
Ole Miss' entrance requirements denied black applicants their equal
protection rights, a full trial was needed "to clarify the muddy record."
298 F.2d 696 (5th Cir. 1962).
On February 3, 1962, District Judge Sidney Carr Mize held that Meredith
had not been denied admission to Ole Miss solely because of his race.
Judge Mize wrote, "The proof shows, and I find as a fact, that the
University is not a racially segregated institution" even though there
were no African American students enrolled at Ole Miss when Meredith
applied. Meredith was allegedly denied admission for failing to get the
proper recommendations from five Ole Miss alumni, the Ole Miss admissions
policy prevented transfers from unaccredited institutions (since Meredith
was applying as a transfer student from the then-unaccredited historically
black Jackson State College), and alleged "deficiencies" in Meredith's
character. 202 F. Supp. 224, 227 (S.D. Miss. 1962). Meredith then appealed
this decision and moved for an injunction pending appeal.
On February 12, 1962, the Fifth Circuit denied Meredith's motion for an
injunction pending appeal. The Fifth Circuit decided that the hardship to
Meredith was not enough to justify an injunction because the court of
appeals needed more time to study the full record and testimony. 305 F.2d
341 (5th Cir. 1962).
The Fifth Circuit ruled on Meredith's appeal on June 26, 1962. Circuit
Judge John Minor Wisdom reversed the Fifth Circuit's prior decision
denying Meredith an injunction and remanded the case demanding that an
injunction be issued. Judge Minor wrote, "[F]rom the moment the defendants
discovered Meredith was a Negro they engaged in a carefully calculated
campaign of delay, harassment, and masterly inactivity." He also noted
that Meredith had earned many credits from other, accredited institutions,
so Ole Miss' explanation that it refused any transfers from non-accredited
universities was "inadequate on its face." Additionally, Jackson State,
Meredith's previous school, was supervised by the same state Board of
Trustees as Ole Miss. The letters of recommendation requirement was also
found to be "a patently discriminatory device" because they required
letters from multiple alumni, all of whom were white. Further, Judge Minor
noted that Meredith's alleged bad character was not a valid reason to deny
him admission to Ole Miss. 305 F.2d 343 (5th Cir. 1962).
A mandate was issued on July 17, 1962 in accordance with the Fifth
Circuit's decision. The next day, Ole Miss filed an order seeking a stay
of this mandate. An order was issued by Circuit Judge Ben F. Cameron
granting the stay. Judge Cameron was not part of the Fifth Circuit panel
that had heard Meredith's appeals. The Fifth Circuit then had to review
Judge Cameron's actions. Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom wrote, "The Court
is bigger than a single judge. Assuming, but without deciding, that Judge
Cameron is indeed a judge of ‘the court rendering the judgment’, we hold
that the court determining the cause has inherent power to review the
action of the single judge, whether or not the single judge is a member of
the panel." After reviewing Judge Cameron's actions, the Fifth Circuit
vacated his stay and issued an injunction against Ole Miss. 306 F.2d 374
(5th Cir. 1962).
Despite the Fifth Circuit's July 1962 opinion, Judge Cameron continued to
issue stays to block Meredith's admission to Ole Miss. In total, he issued
three stays after the July 1962 Fifth Circuit decision and before the
September 1962 Supreme Court decision. Justice Black of the Supreme
Court reviewed Judge Cameron's actions and vacated his orders. The Supreme
Court held that continuing to stay the Fifth Circuit mandates would cause
further harm to Meredith and enforcing the mandates would not cause
appreciable harm to Ole Miss. 83 S. Ct. 10.
The Fifth Circuit found in a separate opinion that an agent of the State
of Mississippi who barred Meredith from entering Ole Miss was guilty of
civil contempt. 313 F.2d 534 (5th Cir. 1962).
There was a riot at Ole Miss on the night of September 30, 1962 when
Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss. Mississippi National Guard, U.S. Marshals,
and the U.S. Army were called in to control the crowds protesting
Meredith's entrance to Ole Miss. Two people were killed in the clash and
hundreds were injured. Meredith went on to graduate from Ole Miss, but had
to be protected by troops 24 hours per day during his tenure at the
school. |
Frame 232 |
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Wil Mara
2013 |
Novel written
by Wil Mara.
"On Nov.22,1963 President John F.Kennedy was assassinated. In the years
since, several photos have been discovered that show a woman standing not
more than thirty feet feom the President's limousine, holding what appears
to be a video camera. Thi woman has since become known as "the Babushka
Lady". Yet her true identity, her camera and the footage she shot have
never been found.
What if...half a century later, her film surfaced.. and it contained the
final piece of evidence needed to solve the greatest crime of the
twentieth century?" |
Frost
- Nixon |
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David Frost
2007 |
The British journalist
recounts his 1977 interview with the disgraced American president—the
basis for the Tony Award–winning play & Oscar-nominated film.
In Frost/Nixon, Sir David Frost tells the extraordinary story of how he
pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career—and how the series drew
larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States,
before being shown all over the world.
This is Frost’s absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no
less revealing of his own toughness and pertinacity than of the
ex-President’s elusiveness. Frost’s encounters with such figures as Swifty
Lazar, Ron Ziegler, potential sponsors, and Nixon as negotiator are
nothing short of hilarious, and his insight into the taping of the
programs themselves is fascinating.
Frost/Nixon provides the authoritative account of the only public trial
that Nixon would ever have, and a revelation of the man’s character as it
appeared in the stress of eleven grueling sessions before the cameras.
Including historical perspective and transcripts of the edited interviews,
this is the story of Sir David Frost’s quest to produce one of the most
dramatic pieces of television ever broadcast, described by commentators at
the time as “a catharsis” for the American people. |
George Wallace: an
enigma
[The complex life of Alabama's most divisive and controversial governor] |
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Mary
S.Palmer
2016 |
From George Wallace's "Stand
in the Schoolhouse Door" to President John Kennedy's historic civil rights
speech, and late at night, the shooting of Medgar Evers, June 11, 1963 was
one of the most significant days in the civil rights movement.
The Alabama governor, who months earlier had famously said
“segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” physically
blocked African American students Vivian Malone and James Hood as they
attempted to attend classes at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
President John F. Kennedy responded by federalizing the Alabama National
Guard and ordering 100 troops to escort the students into the campus. When
the troops arrived, Wallace stepped down. Hood and Malone–whose
future-brother-in-law Eric Holder became the nation’s first
African-American attorney general–enrolled.
Wallace’s support for segregation inspired President John F. Kennedy to
give an historic speech on civil rights, a moment seen by many historians
as one of the turning points in the civil rights movement.
Governor George Wallace was a
complex man who passionately attempted to retain white supremacy in the
South. Even after an attempted assassination confined him to a wheelchair,
he didn’t waver in pursuing his controversial goals.
Did he achieve a temporary measure of success, or did his fight for
integration under the guise of States Rights have an ironic result?
Author Mary S. Palmer had exclusive access to interview George Wallace
shortly before the end of his life at his home--one of the last interviews
he granted. Using her journalistic skills, she delved deep into matters
previously not privy to the public. It may have been the most revealing
interview ever conducted by friend or foe. |
Gli anni della Luna
[1950-1972: l'epoca d'oro della corsa allo spazio] |
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Paolo
Magionami
2009 |
On October 4, 1957, the
cosmic beep of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth,
officially opened the space age. The news of the launch communicated by
Tass went around the world faster than the satellite itself, arousing
perplexity, wonder, amazement, admiration.
For the United States, the defeat was unprecedented. The image of the most
technologically advanced superpower in the world collapsed in the face of
the cosmic beep of the Russian "traveling companion".
Under the spectre of a nuclear war, an extraordinary era for the conquest
of space began, marked by great, historic milestones such as that of Yuri
Gagarin or Valentina Tereshkova but also by the great popular enthusiasm
that saw the race to the Moon, Mars and the stars as a goal now within
reach.
The formidable Soviet satellites oust Sophia Loren from the covers of
lifestyle magazines, Yuri Gagarin bursts into the pages of photo novels,
John Glenn and his associates sign a million-dollar contract for Life
without having done anything; rockets and spaceships push Mickey Mouse
into the attic. A story within a story begins, outlined and retraced using
the words of that time, rewriting the events of the conquest of space with
the typical tones of an era of ferment and tension, dominated by the Cold
War but also by the desire to reach the stars. |
Ho ammazzato JFK |
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Manuel
Vasquez Montalban
1972 |
Novel written
by Manuel Montalban in 1970.
This book is an almost experimental and visionary novel.
Italian version. |
How
did we get here?
[From
Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump] |
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Robert
Dallek
2020 |
The struggle to preserve
the Republic has never been easy or without perils. The rise of
conflicting political parties, which the founders opposed, and President
John Adams’ Alien and Sedition Acts repressing First Amendment rights made
Franklin’s observation at the conclusion of the Constitutional
Convention—“a republic, if you can keep it”—seem prescient.
In the twentieth century, America endured numerous struggles: economic
depression, World War II, McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the
Iran-contra scandal, the war in Iraq—all of which gave rise to demagogues,
as did the growth and reach of mass media. But this wasn’t the Founding
Fathers’ vision for our leadership. The resistance to putting a demagogue
in the White House survived the anti-Communist agitation of the 1950s and
the Vietnam War in the 1960s. But the latter opened the way for Richard
Nixon’s election in 1968 and Watergate, which again tested our democratic
institutions and the rule of law. Nixon’s resignation in August 1974 moved
Vice President Gerald Ford, his successor, to declare, “My fellow
Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”
But was it? Donald Trump’s 2016 election has presented a new challenge.
How did past politics and presidential administrations pave the way for
this current assault on American democracy? Our nation’s history provides
reassurance that we will restore our better angels to government. Yet it
must be considered that earlier administrations and public outlook
facilitated the rise of such an un-presidential character as Trump in the
first place. In How Did We Get Here?, Robert Dallek considers a century of
modern administrations, from Teddy Roosevelt to today, shining a light on
the personalities behind the politics and the voters who elected each. His
cautionary tale reminds us that the only constant in history is change,
but whether for good or ill the choice is Americans’ to make. |
I Discorsi che hanno cambiato
il Mondo Moderno |
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Hywel
Williams
2014 |
Book in
Italian.
This book collects 45 of the most memorable, passionate and influential
speeches given from 1945 to today. From stark warnings against the threat
of totalitarianism to celebrations of long-sought independences, from
fervent defenses of moral principles to calls for political change, Hywel
Williams' selection covers a wide variety of themes and topics. It is an
anthology of many voices: dictators and champions of democracy,
conservatives and progressives, soldiers and pacifists, politicians and
entrepreneurs, popes and internationally renowned professionals. Some of
the most eminent figures of the modern world - Churchill and de Gaulle,
John F. Kennedy (3 speeches) and Martin Luther King, Nehru and
Nasser, Mandela and Mao, Thatcher and Reagan, Castro and Obama, Renzo
Piano and Pope Francis - show off their honed oratory skills. Each speech
is accompanied by a concise chronology that frames the speaker's life and
by an in-depth analysis that historically contextualizes the speech
itself, examining its impact and consequences. The book presents some of
the most important and memorable speeches in recent history: from the
famous "Iron Curtain" speech held by Churchill in Fulton in 1946, to David
Ben-Gurion's historic statements before the elected Assembly of the Jews
of Palestine in 1947; from Eleanor Roosevelt's inspiring speech at the
adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
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I Grandi Discorsi che hanno cambiato la Storia |
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Gianluca
Lioni & Michele Fina
2018 |
Book in
Italian. This book
brings together in an ambitious and never banal way 100 great speeches,
and reveals techniques of persuasion that are always current, even in the
era of tweets. Among the 100 speeches there is a speech by John F. Kennedy
(Berlin, June 26, 1963), one by Martin Luther King (Washington, August 28,
1963) and one by Robert F. Kennedy (Kansas, March 18, 1968). |
I Grandi Enigmi della Guerra Fredda |
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Bernard
Michal
1969 |
Book, in
Italian, about 5 big mysteries of Cold War :
1. Otto John, due volte transfuga, è un traditore?
2. L'aereo che ha fatto fallire la conferenza al vertice
3. Il poker atomico di Cuba (Cuba atomic poker)
4. Chi ha assassinato i fratelli Ngo?
5. Gli spari di Dallas (Dallas shots) |
I have a dream
[Writings
and Speeches that changed the world] |
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Martin Luther King Jr
1992 |
On August
28,1963 Martin luther King Jr stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial
looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the
name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words "I have a dream...".
It was a speech that changed the course of history.
This anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr's courageous dream
and his immeasurable contribution by presenting his most memorable words
in a concise and convenient edition.
As Coretta Scott King says in her foreword "This collection includes many
of what I consider to be my husband's most important writings and
orations". |
I have a dream
[L'autobiografia
del profeta dell'uguaglianza] |
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Martin Luther King Jr
2001 |
Italian
version.
Ideal Autobiography of Martin Luther King, through a collection of his
writings and speeches, collected and edited from Clayborne Carson, founder
and director of the Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute. |
I Love Music -
1960-64 |
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AA.VV.
3CD Box |
3CD Box with the music of the Kennedy
Presidency years- 1960-64
Johnny Kidd&the Pirates-The Shadows- The SWinging Blue Jeans- The
Searchers- Gerry&the PAcemakers- Manfred Mann- Helen Shapiro- Cilla
Black-Cliff Richard and many more |
I Padroni del Mondo
- America |
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Biagi Enzo
1995 |
In Italian.
Very interesting book written from one of the best Italian journalists,
Enzo Biagi, about his travels in USA and his interviews.
In the cover a photo of President John F.Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. |
I, JFK |
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Mayer
Robert
1989 |
A spirited novel written
by Robert Mayer.
"Dictating from heaven, JFK tells his
story...a piece of celestial kiss and tell!".
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Il principe del
mondo |
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Antonio
Monda
2021 |
Italian edition. Novel.
New York, October 1927. These are the days in which Sam Warner, the most
authoritative of the Warner Bros, with the introduction of sound, is
changing the history of cinema and culture of the twentieth century
forever. The assistant of the great film producer is the young Jake
Singer, who after Warner's sudden death will go to the service of Joe
Kennedy, the founder of the most important American family of the
twentieth century. Kennedy is a controversial, tough, controversial,
immoderately ambitious man and willing to do anything to achieve his
goals. But he is also very intelligent, visionary and courageous. His, and
that of his children, will be a legendary and dramatic story, of which
Jake Singer is a privileged witness and narrator, and with his tight and
compelling story, he gives us back the lights, shadows, atmospheres and
protagonists of a family that has become a legend. With "The Prince of the
World" Antonio Monda continues his fictional reconstruction of New York,
the "capital of the world", the city where everything happens, the beating
heart of the American century. |
Il quarto sparo |
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Bruzzone Natalino
1993 |
In Italian.
A novel written
by Natalino Bruzzone, around JFK Assassination and implications on White
House in 1997. |
Il
successore |
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Burdick Eugene
1964 |
IL SUCCESSORE is the Italian version of the
book "The 480", a political fiction novel by Eugene Burdick (1964).
The plot evolves around the political turmoil after John F. Kennedy
assassination in 1963. In the novel, a fictitious charismatic character,
John Thatch, an engineer, is seeking nomination for the Republican Party
candidate at 1964 presidential elections. He is described as being
contaminated with the "political virus". A handful of political
professionals is promoting his nomination, in confrontation with the Party
establishment. There exist apparent parallels between Thatch and Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., a write-in hero at New Hampshire primary.
The novel criticizes the socio-political effects on society at large from
the use of computers to run massive simulations, which predict the public
reaction to certain (proposed) political moves before implementing them.
Such simulations make it easy to manipulate the public consciousness.
The 480 in the title denotes the number of groups (by party affiliation,
socioeconomic status, location, origin, etc.) that the computer simulation
uses to classify the American electorate. The full list of these is
reproduced in the Appendix, claimed by the author to be the true list used
by the Simulmatics Corporation (real name) in Senator John F. Kennedy's
Presidential campaign in 1960.
The Simulmatics Corporation was created by MIT Professor Ithiel de Sola
Pool, who provided a non-fiction backup to "The 480" in "Candidates,
Issues, and Strategies: A Computer Simulation of the 1960 Presidential
Election," MIT Press, 1964 (with co-authors Robert P. Abelson and Samuel
L. Popkin). They built their model from 130,000 archived interviews in
Gallup and Roper polls over a ten-year period. Based on its output, they
advised Kennedy that he would benefit from a strong civil rights stand and
that he had nothing to lose, and much to gain, by attacking religious
bigotry and dealing frankly with his Catholicism. |
In
His Steps
[Lyndon Johnson and
the Kennedy Mystique] |
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Paul R.Henggeler
1991 |
In the White House, Lyndon Johnson was
haunted by the myth of Camelot. In this intimate personal and political
history based on exhaustive new research, Paul Henggeler chronicles
Johnson's frustrating struggle with John and Robert Kennedy.
LBJ saw in them both opportunities and threats. Towards John he felt
affection and respect, and he often drew upon the "Kennedy legacy" in his
conduct of the presidency, recognizing its immense political value. But
Johnson feared Robert Kennedy as the living embodiment of that legacy and
as a man who was determined to dethrone him.
Drawing upon thousands of fresh documents as well as published sources,
Paul Henggeler has constructed a fascinating and revealing account of
personalities and politics which crippled the Johnson presidency and
produced dramatic upheaval at the highest level of government. |
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