D - Misc books/video related to JFK Years

In History's Shadow - An American Odyssey

Connally John
1993

In Retrospect  
[The tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam]

Robert McNamara
1995

In the President's Secret Service

Kessler Ronald
2009

Interview with the Assassin

Movie.
Almost forty years after John F.Kennedy's assassination an ex-Marine named Walter Ohlinger has come forward with a startling claim : "I was in Dallas November 22,1963. Does that mean anything to you? I've never told anyone this before : no one knows. I was the second gunman behind the stockade fence on what they call the grassy knoll. I fired one shot from there".

It rained in Dallas

This is a work of fiction, about the assassination of JFK in Dallas.
 

Jackie, a Boy and a Dog
[A Warm Cold War Story]

An incredible journey of life lessons, grief and unexpected friendship changes the life of a young Midwestern boy who accidentally kills his beloved dog during a backyard baseball game in the summer of 1963. In his grief, he reaches out to the most powerful family in the world, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy who give Mark a gift that changes his life. This true story not only gave this boy a dog to fill the void of his loss, but an unexpected friendship with the most iconic woman of the 20th century: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

In a series of unlikely divine interventions, Mark shares the journey and fulfillment of his love for dogs, brought back to life by a remarkable little dog, Streaker. Just as amazing is the long-term friendship Mark develops with Jacqueline, and how God used that friendship to mentor him. That sense of divine calling led Mark to opportunities of great service for the Kingdom of God, while at times dangerous, incredibly rewarding and important. Streaker may have been a mutt, but his simple bloodline showed Mark that anyone puts their giftedness in God's hands, and allows God to use them, amazing things happen.
 

JFK and Art

This book examines how American and European artists, including such twentieth-century icons as Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Norman Rockwell and others helped to shape the Kennedy legend and legacy. Published to accompany a ground-breaking exhibition of paintings, sculptures and photographs originated by the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, the book includes an essay by the highly regarded art historian Dr Kenneth Silver.

JFK and his family - Paper Dolls in Full Colour

Tierney Tom
1990

JFK and Mary Meyer. A Love Story.

Kornbluth Jesse
2020

JFK Memorial - Dallas

AA.VV.
 2000

JFK - Original Soundtrack

Williams John
 CD

Joe T.Patterson and the White South's Dilemma
[Evolving resistance to Black advancement]

Robert E. Luckett Jr
2015

John F.Kennedy Sites in Dallas-Fort Worth

Doty Mark and Slate John H.
2010

JOURNALS 1952-2000

Schlesinger Artur M., Jr
2007

For more than a half century, Arthur Schlesinger Jr was at the vital center of American political and cultural life.
From his entrance in political leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy White House and up until his very last days, he was that rare thing, a master historian who enjoyed an extraordinary eyewitness vantage on history as it was being made.
For most of his adult life, Arthur Schlesinger Jr dutifully recorded his experience and opinions in journals that, before this book, had never been seen. Edited by his oldest sons, they offer remarkably fresh and lucid observations on a half century of public life, and a rare and privileged view into the mind of one of America's most distinguished men of letters.

Kennedy's Ghost

Stevens Gordon
1994

Kick Kennedy's Secret Diary

Braudy Susan
2018

Killing the Dream

Gerald Posner
1998

La Banda Kennedy
[Trame occulte, segreti, delitti e crimini dall'ascesa alla caduta di una terribile dinastia]

Pier Carpi
1992

La donna piu' bella del mondo
[Vita, morte e segreti di Marilyn Monroe]

Andrea Carlo Cappi
2012

L'Agguato

 William Harrington
1997

L' "altro" Martin Luther King

 Paolo Naso
1993

La mia settimana con Marilyn

Colin Clark
2012

La Vita Segreta di J.Edgar Hoover

 Anthony Summers
1993

LEADER che hanno cambiato la storia

 Gribaudo
2020

Leaders
[I protagonisti del nostro tempo visti da un protagonista]

Richard Nixon
2020

Leadership Lessons from every US President

 Andrie
Sandria
2023

L'enigma della morte di Marilyn Monroe

Francesco Mari - Elisabetta Bertol - Barbara Gualco
2010

Le teste d'uovo

Using portraits of America’ s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’ s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic.
 

Lettere che hanno cambiato il mondo

Italian version of the book "Letters to Change the World".
In an era where the liberties we often take for granted are under threat, Letters To Change the World is a collection of inspiring letters offering reminders from history that standing up for and voicing our personal and political beliefs is not merely a crucial right but a duty if we want to change the world.

Edited by Travis Elborough, the collection includes George Orwell's warning on totalitarianism, Martin Luther King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail', Albert Camus on the reasons to fight a war, Bertrand Russell on peace, Emmeline Pankhurst rallying her suffragettes, Nelson Mandela's letter to his children from prison and Time's Up on the abuse of power.
It includes the letter written on October 24,1962 from Nikita Krushov to President John F.Kennedy on Cuban Missiles Crisis.

Libra

Novel about JFK Assassination.
Italian version.

Life after Power
[Seven Presidents and their Search for Purpose beyond the White House]

Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington’s departure after two terms made him “the greatest character of the age.” But Alexander Hamilton worried former presidents might “[wander] among the people like ghosts.” They were both right.

Life After Power tells the stories of seven former presidents, from the Founding to today. Each changed history. Each offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life. This book follows the exceptional lives of past presidents including:
-Thomas Jefferson whose time after the White House saw him shaping public debates and founding the University of Virginia, an accomplishment he included on his tombstone, unlike his presidency.
-John Quincy Adams who served in Congress and became a leading abolitionist, passing the torch to Abraham Lincoln.
-Grover Cleveland who was the only president in American history to serve a nonconsecutive term.
-William Howard Taft who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
-Herbert Hoover who shaped the modern conservative movement, led relief efforts after World War II, reorganized the executive branch, and reconciled John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
-Jimmy Carter who had the longest post-presidency in American history, advancing humanitarian causes, human rights, and peace.
-George W. Bush who made a clean break from politics, bringing back George Washington’s precedent, and reminding the public that the institution of presidency is bigger than any person.

Jared Cohen explores the untold stories in the final chapters of these presidents’ lives, offering a “unique and fascinating look at how seven individuals made the transition from the most powerful position in the world to consequential and fulfilling lives post-presidency” (Condoleezza Rice, 66th Secretary of State). He tells how they handled very human problems of ego, finances, and questions about their legacy and mortality. He shows how these men made history after they left the White House.

Lo stile paranoide nella politica americana

A timely reissue of acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter’s authoritative and unforgettable essay. First published in 1964 and no less relevant half a century later, The Paranoid Style in American Politics scrutinizes the conditions that gave rise to the extreme right of the 1950s and the 1960s, and presages the ascendancy of the Tea Party movement and, now, Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Fringe groups can and do both influence and derail American politics, and Hofstadter remains indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand why paranoia, a persistent psychic phenomenon with an outsize role in American public life, refuses to abate.

Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream

Lyndon Johnson - brilliant, formidable, generous, troubled - is captured in one of the most revealing portraits of an American President ever written. Rarely, if ever, has a public figure talked so intimately about his personal and private life and thoughts as this President did to Miss Kearns during the last five years of his life.

Managing the President's message
[The White House Communication Operation]

Political scientists are rarely able to study presidents from inside the White House while presidents are governing, campaigning, and delivering thousands of speeches. It’s even rarer to find one who manages to get officials such as political adviser Karl Rove or presidential counselor Dan Bartlett to discuss their strategies while those strategies are under construction. But that is exactly what Martha Joynt Kumar pulls off in her fascinating new book, which draws on her first-hand reporting, interviewing, and original scholarship to produce analyses of the media and communications operations of the past four administrations, including chapters on George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Kumar describes how today’s White House communications and media operations can be at once in flux and remarkably stable over time. She describes how the presidential Press Office that was once manned by a single presidential advisor evolved into a multilayered communications machine that employs hundreds of people, what modern presidents seek to accomplish through their operations, and how presidents measure what they get for their considerable efforts.

Laced throughout with in-depth statistics, historical insights, and you-are-there interviews with key White House staffers and journalists, this indispensable and comprehensive dissection of presidential communications operations will be key reading for scholars of the White House researching the presidency, political communications, journalism, and any other discipline where how and when one speaks is at least as important as what one says.

Marilyn

Italian book.
Marilyn's biography written from the Italian journalist Alfonso Signorini.
From the back cover : "Era questa la sua condanna : essere nata per amare ed essere incapace di farlo".

Marilyn

Italian version.
An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe (originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Mailer, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, was the first writer to explore the relationship between Monroe and Bobby Kennedy. When first published, this book was the subject of Time and Life magazine cover stories, was on The New York Times Bestseller List and became a full selection of the Book of the Month Club.

Marilyn - Three Volume Set Box

This is Taschen Verlag's sumptuous, oversized (50x40 cm) three volume anthology of Andre De Dienes photographs of early Marilyn Monroe. A 2002 first edition containing one hardbound book, one volume of magazine cover reproductions and a facsimile of Marilyn's diary all housed in a facsimile of Andre De Dienes' Kodak photographic paper box.

Marilyn - The last take

This book, based on thousands of newly discovered documents, hours of newly available footage from her final film, and over 300 revealing new interviews, is a detailed and astonishing account of what really happened during the last fourteen weeks in the life of Hollywood's legendary sex goddess.

Marilyn among friends

The photographer Sam Shaw introduced Norman Rosten to Marilyn Monroe in 1955. Their relationship grew : Marilyn's analyst, Dr Ralph Greenson, described Rosten as one of her "closest friends". She married another of his friends, Arthur Miller, and from then saw a great deal of Norman and his wife Hedda.
Photographer Sam Shaw met Monroe on the set of "Viva Zapata" when she was an out-of-work contract player. Shaw was to take many famous photographs of Marilyn, but he too became her friend and over many years took the kind of photographs that only friends can.
As her closest friends, both the author and the photographer are uniquely placed to reveal the real Marilyn. This book conveys its subject with greater authority, candour and, above all, affection than any previous book.

Marilyn & Me [Un memoir fotografico]

When he pulled his station wagon into the 20th Century-Fox studios parking lot in Los Angeles in 1960, twenty-three-year-old Lawrence Schiller kept telling himself that this was just another assignment, just another pretty girl. But the assignment and the girl were anything but ordinary. Schiller was a photographer for Look magazine and his subject was Marilyn Monroe, America's sweetheart and sex symbol. In this intimate memoir, Schiller recalls the friendship that developed between him and Monroe while he photographed her in Hollywood in 1960 and 1962 on the sets of Let's Make Love and the unfinished feature Something's Got to Give, the last film she worked on.
Schiller recalls Marilyn as tough and determined, enormously insecure as an actress but totally self-assured as a photographer’s model. Monroe knew how to use her looks and sexuality to generate publicity, and in 1962 she allowed Schiller to publish the first nude photographs of her in over ten years, which she then used as a weapon against a studio that wanted to have her fired—and ultimately succeeded. The Marilyn Schiller knew and writes about was adept at hiding deep psychological scars, but she was also warm and open, candid and disarming, a movie star who wished to be taken more seriously than she was.
Accompanying the text are eighteen of the author’s own photographs, some never previously published. Many writers have tried to capture her essence on the page, but as someone who was in the room, a young man Marilyn could connect with and trust, Schiller gives us a unique look at the real woman offscreen.

Marilyn confidenziale

Italian version of the book "Marilyn Monroe confidential".
Lena Pepitone's personal account as Marilyn's seamstress and maid. Offers information on the last 6 years of her life, including her marriage to Arthur Miller, the making of Some Like It Hot, a notorious affair with Yves Montand, her addiction to sleeping pills and alcohol, and her early expieriences as a struggling actress. The book is shocking with specific details about Marilyn's lack of personal hygenine and love of nudity. It also suggests that Marilyn gave birth to a child, but gave it up for adoption. widely criticized however highly quoted.

Marilyn Monroe

Barbara Leaming's book is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will forever change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality.
Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the centre of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which some of the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the worlds of movies, theatre and politics.

Italian version.
Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe's humanity.

Marilyn's image is so universal that we can't help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety—and by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her.

Beyond the headlines—and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation—was a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts—notes to herself, letters, even poems—in Marilyn's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos.

Wonderful book about the Life and the Myth of Marilyn Monroe.
Italian version.

This is the Italian version of the book "Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures".
This  book brings together all of the most iconic images of the legendary bombshell. Glamorous shots by celebrity photographers mix with casual snapshots and childhood portraits to span Marilyn's luminous but too-short life. Hundreds of evocative images, both lush and poignant, are interwoven with quotations by and about Marilyn to create an elegant collective portrait like no other. Aesthetically arresting throughout, this volume illuminates the life of a legend, both onscreen and off.

Even many years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is still one of the greatest legends of the twentieth century. This book cahrts Marilyn's fascinating life, from her unhappy childhood, through her years as a superstar, to her tragic and untimely death in 1962. The collection of photographs documents the important events in her life.

Italian Version of "The Marilyn Monroe Treasures" book.
With her ineffable combination of girlish innocence, glamorous sex appeal, and palpable presence on the silver screen, Marilyn Monroe bears an unmatched legacy marked by beauty, style, and mystique. This book, both a compelling biographical narrative and a collector’s delight, is a unique and meaningful addition to the Marilyn library. Featuring a number of unseen photographs, such as a soldier’s snapshots of Marilyn entertaining the troops in Korea, as well as many unpublished pieces of memorabilia, including an exquisite watercolor rose that Marilyn painted as a gift for President John F. Kennedy’s birthday, this book is a lavishly illustrated feast of beautiful imagery and ephemera from the life of one of the world’s most beloved stars.

Italian Version.
This is the story of the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, who met for the first time in 1951 and married on June 29 1956.

Set with 7 Marilyn's movie (italian version) :
1. Fermata d'autobus
2. Niagara
3. Gli uomini preferiscono le bionde
4. A qualcuno piace caldo
5. La magnifica preda
6. La tua bocca brucia
7. The final day

Set with 6 Marilyn's movie (italian version) :
1. Come sposare un milionario
2. Follie dell'anno
3. Quando la moglie è in vacanza
4. Gli spostati
5. Il magnifico scherzo
6. Facciamo l'amore