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Italian DVD, focused on the speech "I have a dream" from Martin Luther King in Washington on August 29,1963, less than 3 months before JFK was assassinated.
 

Marilyn Monroe's confidante, business partner, artistic consultant and dear friend, Milton H.Greene was also one of his era's most sought after celebrity photographers. His proximity to Marilyn enabled him to capture images of her in poses and attitudes inaccessible to the hundreds of other photographers who pursued this engaging beauty. Now available for the first time in a mini-hardcover edition, the photographs in this rich and dynamic volume comprise what are undoubtedly the most remarkable portraits ever taken of Marilyn Monroe.

Italian book.
"America's black drama".
Volume of the "I Dossier Mondadori" series dedicated to the figure of Martin Luther King.

For 15 yrs, Judith Exner kept a tight lid on her secret love affair with John F.Kennedy in the White House - until a Senate investigation smeared the story across the nation's front pages. In 1977 Mrs Exner, after years of FBI harassment, broke her silence with this book, revealing her story - tender, intimate and unvarnished - of a passionate romance between a stunningly beautiful Los Angeles girl and the charismatic President of the United States, and of her close ties to Mafia chieftain Sam Giancana.
Special thanks to Yaacov (Itsyourturn.com) who sent me this book.

In 1956, fresh from Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (brother of maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a humble 'gofer' on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that disastrously united Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. This is the story of when Clark escorted a Monroe desperate to escape from the pressures of stardom. How he ended up sharing her bed is a tale too rich to summarise! Clark's extraordinary experiences on and off set have now been turned into a major film starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh and Dominic Cooper.

The rise, fall and rebirth of Richard Nixon is perhaps the most fascinating story in American politics. Presidential chronicles and other outside sources have tried to capture it in full, but "Nixon: A life" is the first to succeed.
This book is the first entirely objective biography of Richard Nixon. Jonathan Aitken conducted over sixty hours of interviews with Nixon and was granted unprecedented access to thousands of pages of Nixon's previously sealed private documents.

"Our Man in Haiti" is a harrowing journey into the belly of the beast.
Following the trail of George de Mohrenschildt, an obscure character lurking in the shadow of the JFK Assassination, Joan Mellen uncoversthe CIA's destructive machinations in Haiti from the 1950s until today.

Signed book from author, when I met her in Dallas in November 2013.

From finding JFK's Single Bullet to questioning Anita Hill to impeaching Clinton.
In thus brutally honest book, Senator Specter analyzes these and other controversies, assessing each through both a legal and historical lens. Throughout, he tells the truth, naming names, identifying where the system worked and where it failed - and even admitting to his own mistakes. Arlen Specter brings all these events to life, taking the reader into the courtroom, the cloakroom, and the Senate Chamber, and offers a clear and honest vision for reforming the way Main Street and Wall Street are governed.

As the successor to a martyred President, Lyndon B.Johnson sought to transform America into a "Great Society" of equal opportunity. Instead, he became the symbol of the most unpopular war in U.S. history.
Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland and Alec Baldwin star in a compelling drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams, set inside the LBJ White House in the volatile years leading up to and during Vietnam.

Novel written by Peter M.Olsen.
As written in his preface note "This story is part fictional, part historical fact and part non-fictional narrative".

22 Commercials selling Candidates for the Presidency
On one hour long DVD Video

A picturial guide of Presidents' Birthplaces, Homes and Burial sites, including Presidential Libraries.

Volume 12 of "The American Heritage Book of Presidents and Famous Americans", dedicated to John F.Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Jour J is an French Alternate History graphic novel series co-authored by Jean-Pierre Pécau, Fred Duval and Fred Blanchard. Each volume is stand-alone and explores a different counterfactual scenario, depicting how history could have turned out some years after the point of divergence.
Volume 5, Qui a tué le Président? (Who killed the President?) takes place in 1973, 13 years after Richard Nixon won the presidential election against John Kennedy and is beginning his fourth term.

An advicer and speechwriter in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Richard N.Goodwin was an intimate collegue and friend of the leading public figures of the day - John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy - and an active participant in national politics. After the hardships of the1960 presidential campaign, he helped form the new Kennedy administration, conceived the Alliance for Progress and after the assassination of the President he was among the very few Kennedy men invited by Lyndon Johnson to join his circle of advicers.
Goodwin originated the Great Society concept, and in this memoir he portrays the master politician at closest range.
The alarming deterioration of Johnson's mind and spirit, and the acceleration of the war in Vietnam, led Goodwin to break with the Johnson administration and join Eugene McCarthy  in New Hamshire in a campaign to end that war. A dramatic chroncile of Goodwin's journey through the sixties, "Remebering America" is a memoir of the hopes, dreams and ideals of an extraordinary decade and of the inspiring men and women who sought to realze them.

"Almost 60 years ago I tried to stop the assassination of JFK. I’m the only person who tried to do so. I just happened to be in a certain place at a certain time."
How does this connect to the events of November 22, 1963?A 14-year-old boy was swept up in the assassination of JFK. He became involved in a counter-conspiracy to save the United States. This is a true story. Almost 60 years later this young man finally found a resolution for himself and for America. This is the story of that resolution.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (19172007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedys presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own rightS chlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his best-selling and immensely influential record of the Kennedy administration, cemented Schlesingers place as one of the nations greatest political image makers and a key figure of the American intellectual elite a peer and contemporary of Reinhold Niebuhr, Isaiah Berlin, and Adlai Stevenson.The first major biography of this defining figure in Kennedys Camelot, Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian presents a dramatic life and career set against the backdrop of the American Century. Biographer Richard Aldous draws on oral history, rarely seen archival documents, and the official Schlesinger papers to craft a portrait of the incandescently brilliant and controversial historian who framed Americas ascent to global empire.

Italian version of  the novel "SEVEN DAYS IN MAY", written in 1962 during JFK Presidency.
"Seven Days in May" is an authentic classic political thriller of the first rank. Authors Baily and Knebel present a scenario in which an unpopular President is targeted by America's top military brass for an actual military takeover of the government. The story is complex, but vividly presented with an authenticity that is both disturbing and plausible. The reader is brought to understand that it could happen here, and the story suggests how such a scenario could come about in these United States.
The novel is well-written and fast-paced, never drags, and absolutely holds the reader's interest throughout. The amazing thing about the story is that every bit of it hangs together without straining the reader's sense of credulity. The novel features excellent writing, and the authors weave the plot together towards a conclusion that is startling and believable.
This was a big budget movie in the 1960s featuring Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster.

Italian version of  the novel "SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?".
Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer keeps the pace sizzling in this final installment in the Kane and Abel trilogy, Shall We Tell the President?, a daring political thriller where treason and betrayal threaten to topple an American dynasty.
After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life.
The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy—in less than one week? The race to save the first woman president begins now…

David Lubin is Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. In this book he speculates on the iconic images of the Kennedys, using them to illuminate the entire American cultural landscape. He draws from a spectacularly varied intellectual and visual terrain to show how the public came to identify personally with the Kennedys and how, in so doing, they came to understand their place in the world.

Based on newly available information, the son of famed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers presents the facts and dispels misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that turned his father into a Cold War icon..One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The event was recently depicted in the Steven Spielberg movie Bridge of Spies. Powers was captured by the KGB, subjected to a televised show trial, and imprisoned, all of which created an international incident. Soviet authorities eventually released him in exchange for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. On his return to the United States, Powers was exonerated of any wrongdoing while imprisoned in Russia, yet, due to bad press and the government's unwillingness to heartily defend Powers, a cloud of controversy lingered until his untimely death in 1977. Now his son, Francis Gary Powers Jr. and acclaimed historian Keith Dunnavant have written this new account of Powers's life based on personal files that had never been previously available. Delving into old audio tapes, letters his father wrote and received while imprisoned in the Soviet Union, the transcript of his father's debriefing by the CIA, other recently declassified documents about the U-2 program, and interviews with the spy pilot's contemporaries, Powers and Dunnavant set the record straight. The result is a fascinating piece of Cold War history. This is also a book about a son's journey to understand his father, pursuing justice and a measure of peace.Almost sixty years after the fact, this will be the definitive account of one of the most important events of the Cold War.

This book, edited by Michael R.Beschloss, whom "Newsweek" has called "America's leading presidential historian", brings you into the room with an American political legend, still hated and revered a quarter century after his death. We hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards and punishes, tells tales of Washington,D.C., and Texas, and reveals a bedrock core of unshakable political beliefs.
The only President to record his private conversation from his first day in office, LBJ ordered the pates to be locked in a vault until year 2023. But new they have been unsealed, providing a close-up look at a President taking power such as we have never done before.

Madeleine Duncan Brown fills in a huge gap in our understanding of President Lyndon Baines Johnson with whom she had a long-term love affair. Johnson was one of the most complex figures in American history and the often severe conflict in his character and actions makes him most difficult to understand.

From back cover:
"Never has an American President ridden such a roller-coaster of popularity as has Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Sometimes LBJ's rating is up, sometimes it's down, but always the result is that a shocking proportion of the American people are not behind their President.
Why? What has appened to this countr's feeling about the Presidency?
THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT gives a vetern reporter's anser, in a stinging survey of LBJ's life and career, a book that has already raised a storm of rage and praise - a book that must be read in this crucial election year(1968)."

The Adamses were America's longest dynasty, the closest thing to a royal family USA has ever known. The Adamses played a leading role in America's affairs for nearly two centuries - from John, the self-taught lawyer who rose to the highest office in the government he helped to create; to John Quincy, the child prodigy who followed his father to the White House and fought slavery in Congress; to Charles Francis, the Civil War diplomat: to Henry, the brilliant scholar and journalist. Indeed, the history of the Adams family can be read as the history of America itself.

Robert John Donovan (August 21, 1912-August 8, 2003) was a Washington correspondent, author and presidential historian. He was the author of "PT-109" book.
He published in 1962 this book "The Assassins" about seven men who made decisions to kill US Presidents : three succeeded, four failed, all died themselves. Here are the fascinating, almost unbelievable stories of these men.
The following year, 1963, L.H.Oswald killed President J.F.Kennedy.

This book chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr by a group of the nation's most violent right-wing extremist. Impeccably researched and thoroughly documented, this book examines a network of racist militants who were united in a holy cause to kill King.
"The Awful Grace of God" offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date study of the king assassination and presents a roadmap for future investigation.

The book is about Paul B.Fay (Red's father) who had six children and twenty two grandchildren. He took his family to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. He owned and operated a heavy construction company called The Fay Improvement Company, was generous to a fault and loved his gold game. He was influential in the growth of San Francisco and served as President of the wonderful Pacific Union Club.
There are sixty-three chapters in the book which highlights his encounters with the following individuals : Jack Kennedy, Bob McNamara, Bobby Kennedy, Rowland Evans, Ethel Kennedy, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy,Charles Lindbergh, Byron "Whizzer" White, Jesse Owens, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, David Brinkley and General Dwight Eisenhower, to name a few.
Paul B."Red" Fay Jr wrote the best selling book "The Pleasure of His Company", that chronicles his personal friendship with John F.Kennedy dating back to their time in P.T. Boats in the Pacific in World War II. 

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.

Italian version.
 Inspired by a true story
From this book the film that moved President Barack Obama
In 2008, on the eve of the epic elections that would have brought Barack Obama to the White House, Wil Haygood thought of celebrating that moment thanks to a privileged witness, someone who had experienced firsthand the last fifty years of American history.
He thus set out on the trail of Eugene Allen, the butler who had worked at the White House from 1952 to 1986. After dozens and dozens of phone calls and long searches, the journalist finally obtained Allen's address. He was still alive. He was almost ninety years old and lived with his wife Helene in a modest and decorous neighborhood of Washington. Haygood then had the opportunity to interview Allen, the butler who knew the private lives of eight presidents of the United States, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. The journalist later wrote a long article about it in the "Washington Post" which had enormous resonance. Thus was born the book The Butler, which tells the extraordinary life of Eugene Allen and reveals all the secrets that the walls of the White House have protected for decades.
Over 30 years serving in the White House
8 different US presidents
From Truman to Reagan, from John F. Kennedy to Nixon
The true story of the butler, an extraordinary witness of the daily life of the most powerful men in the world.

A collection of newsreel stories (B&W-28 minutes).
A collection of trailers for Marilyn's films (B&W/Color 45 minutes).
A complete collection of Marilyin Monroe's studio performances (24 songs).

This book is the complete record of the dramatic events that occurred on the day Mr Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre : the chapters start at 7 AM, April 14,1865 and close at 7AM, April 15, 1865.  The book opens with the President emerging from his bedroom, worried about a dream in which he saw himself dead, and ends with the Surgeon General placing two silver dollars on the President's eyelids.

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington.
America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.

Dulles’s decade as the director of the CIA—which he used to further his public and private agendas—were dark times in American politics. Calling himself “the secretary of state of unfriendly countries,” Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clients—colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
An exposé of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.

The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody" Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill.
These are the years that saw the political growth of JFK (deputy and then senator) up to his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States.

**Academy Award Winner - 2003 Best Documentary Feature**
Former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara was one of the most controversial and influencial political figures of the 20th century. Now -for the first time ever - he sits down one on one with award-winning director Errol Morris to offer a candid and intimate journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history.

Novel.
A brilliant new novel by Laurie Graham set in wartime London, which follows Kick Kennedy, sister of future US President JFK, as she takes London society by storm.
Nora Brennan is a country girl from Westmeath. When she lands herself a position as nursery maid to a family in Brookline, Massachusetts, she little thinks it will place her at the heart of American history. But it's the Kennedy family. In 1917 Joseph Kennedy is on his way to his first million and he has plans to found a dynasty and ensure that his baby son, Joe Junior, will be the first Catholic President of the United States.
As nursemaid to all nine Kennedy children, Nora witnesses every moment, public and private. She sees the boys coached at their father's knee to believe everything they'll ever want in life can be bought. She sees the girls trained by their mother to be good Catholic wives. World War II changes everything.
At the outbreak of war the Kennedys are living the high life in London, where Joseph Kennedy is the American ambassador. His reaction is to send the entire household back across the Atlantic to safety, but Nora, surprised by midlife love, chooses to stay in England and do her bit. Separated from her Kennedys by an ocean she nevertheless remains the warm, approachable sun around which the older children orbit: Joe, Jack, Rosemary, and in particular Kick, who throws the first spanner in the Kennedy works by marrying an English Protestant.
Laurie Graham's poignant new novel views the Kennedys from below stairs, with the humour and candour that only an ex-nursemaid dare employ.

The Inauguration speeches from George Washington to Donald Trump (1789-2017)

Novel about JFK Assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald.

A historical novel by J.Arthur Jensen.

In this play of historical fiction, J.Arthur Jensen presents the story of Joseph Kennedy's service as Ambassador to England prior to and during the early months of World War II. This dramatization illustrates that negotiation rather than military conflict might have been used to address the Nazi threat.
In 1938, with tensions rising in Europe, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy to be the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James with instructions to support efforts to maintain the peace. Kennedy learned that much of the political tension was rooted in Nazi anger over the Treaty of Versailles-- the treaty which twenty years earlier had concluded the Great War. After he assessed the political choices, Kennedy supported Prime Minister Chamberlain's effort to maintain European peace by allowing the re-unification of the German people of the Sudetenland with Nazi Germany but he realized that the key to long term European peace was to create a mechanism for legal migration of Jews out of Germany. Kennedy lobbied for a plan which had been previously explored by British and American diplomats: allow Jewish migration to multiple different countries. Christened "the Kennedy Plan" by the press, the plan quickly brought condemnation from non-Jews who did not want new Jewish immigration and from Jews who favored only immigration to Palestine. As Hitler demonstrated the power of his new Luftwaffe and German Panzers, Kennedy urged negotiation and compromise. Voices to maintain peace were overwhelmed by voices for war and we are left to wonder if the Nazi threat was handled properly by the governments of the west. Might negotiation have avoided the massive loss of life that resulted from the Second World War?

Donald H.Wolfe has written a startling portrait of the twentieth century's greatest film star that not only redefines her place in entertainment history but also reveals what the author thinks have been the secret conspiracy that surrounded her during her last days.

Novel about JFK Assassination.
"The most shocking conspiracy theory of our time... is no longer a theory".

This superbly readable biography is a sweeping drama of power, money and politics on the grand scale. It chronicles one of the great political stories of our era, the life of a son of the Texas dust bowl who rose almost to the pinnacle of power in America.
"Connally is an Olympian figure" says james Reston,Jr "By virtue of his eloquence and sheer force of personality, he dominated Texas and Washington for more than twenty years. At the center of three presidencies, he came as close to becoming a president himself as he did to being a lesser martyr when Kennedy was assassinated. His life has drama of epic proportions."
John Bowden Connally, Jr. (February 27, 1917 – June 15, 1993), was an American politician. As a Democrat he served as the 39th Governor of Texas, as Secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy, and as Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon. As Treasury Secretary, Connally is best remembered for removing the U.S. dollar from the gold standard in 1971, an event known as the Nixon shock. On November 22, 1963, Connally, at the time the Governor of Texas, was a passenger in the car in which President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and was seriously wounded during the shooting.
In 1973 he switched parties to become a Republican, and ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President in 1980.

This What if John F. Kennedy had lost the 1960 election? The winner was supposed to have been the more experienced Republican, Vice President Richard M. Nixon. And some believe he would have been, had it not been for vote rigging and skullduggery on Kennedy's behalf. In The Madman Theory, 49-year-old Richard Nixon does win the ‘60 election and we find out for the first time how Nixon, rather than Kennedy, would have handled the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world stood at the brink of nuclear Armageddon. Would Nixon have pushed us over the edge? Could his wife, Pat, struggling to reconcile her proper role as a wife with her estrangement from the man who thrust her into a public life she despises, pull her husband back from the precipice?

Philip H.Melanson, Ph.D., is one of the U.S. leading experts on the history of American political violence. He found much lacking in the "official" explanation of the King assassination, so he conducted an independent investigations into the murder of King and discovered astonishingly flaws in the government's conclusions.
Questioning the "official" findings, he went on to uncover vast amount of new data that has never been considered in the case and that leads to unavoidable re-evaluations.

This is Earl Warren's story, told in his own words - the personal narrative of an extraordinary life...
Warren was appointed by President Eisenhower to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he served as Chief Justice for sixteen years through some of the bitterest judicial controversies of 60s in US.
In this book Warren describes also his involvement in what came to be known as the "Warren Commission" investigating the assassination of John F.Kennedy. He ends with a strong defence of the Commission's conduct and findings.

A novel.
THE MEMOIRS OF JFK imagines that John F. Kennedy survived Dallas, that he served two terms and then wrote a flawed memoir in which he fails to confront many of the questions that had arisen in the aftermath of the assassination attempt. A worried publisher sends a seasoned ghostwriter to try to persuade Kennedy to deal with these omissions. Their combat is the engine of this novel. Although THE MEMOIRS OF JFK is an invention, both its factual aspects and post-assassination conjectures are informed by the author's interviews with some 50 sources-many of them members of Kennedy's administration, some of them journalists he favored, a few of them close friends. No one, of course, can know for certain what decisions Kennedy would have taken, but given the nature of the man and his expressed intent, the world described in the novel is one we might well have lived in had he survived Dallas.

A novel.
Ted Gault does the unthinkable: he brutally murders his great love, Mary Kelly. He cannot comprehend his own reprehensible actions. His action takes away his soul, and must find redemption, though it is impossible. Yet, he finds a way to become the protectorate of the community. The Black Arrow Man shows no mercy—he becomes the arbiter of justice. final.
Max Sarb, the police chief in Stone Eagle, Wisconsin, find's Mary's killer, but it costs him his life. Marc Sarb succeeds him as Chief of Police, but twenty years later still has doubts about Mary Kelly's killer. His twin sons are hard at work unraveling an even bigger mystery. The boys are determined to uncover the truth about the murder of President John F. Kennedy. There is no fiction here. Bob Lamacki proves we have been lied to.
Marc would never suspect his friend Ted Gault, a pillar of Stone Eagle’s tightly knit community, could be behind Mary Kelly’s murder. Then again, no one would believe the shocking historical revelations his boys dig up about Kennedy’s death. As Ted struggled to find a way to finally dam his river of guilt, Max’s dogged pursuit of justice closes in on him. In the meantime, the twins’ obsession with JFK’s death exposes the true nature of evil, past and future. The JFK murder report contained in the book, represents 40 plus years of study. There are no theories, but facts that prove Oswald innocent. He was a patsy.

Historical analysis of development of a new Government agency organization and management of policy for Public Administration.
 Early Peace Corps history has many lessons to teach about politics of public administration policy. Executive Actions to create U.S. Peace Corps and NASA were very different than the Executive Actions today and increasingly of interest to many college courses today. This past history of recent Executive Actions are problematic as the are fully progressed from an idea to reality. Yet, the idea was not so novel when seen from developmental and historical perspectives. In many ways, it represented secularization of many deeply-rooted humanitarian non-secular missionary volunteer traditions of American views, beliefs, and sincere desires to share freedom and prosperity to all. The first Peace Corps volunteers of the Sixties were doing, without religious connotation, what Christian missionaries had done for many decades. This book provides detailed documentation of the many people involved in creation of the U.S. Peace Corps by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, in the years of the "American Camelot", and for the first 25 years of the Peace Corps -- with insights for the future of such humanitarian movements to the present day and beyond. Special emphasis is given to previously unpublished insights into early influence and interests of the first Director of U.S. Peace Corps, Sargent Shriver. This book can be very useful as additional readings for courses and seminars as well as independent study for Political Science and History of government agency and for understanding of effective roles between Congress and executive government agency management. This book provides historical insights into early use of Presidential Executive Orders for fast action while working with Congress to permanently fund and organize new agencies to address critical national needs, as pioneered by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson for Peace Corps and NASA.

Explore the lives of America's 45 presidents, as well as notable first ladies, famous speeches, and major constitutional events, with this visual reference guide to the leaders of the United States.

From George Washington to Donald Trump, The Presidents Visual Encyclopedia presents a unique insight into life in the White House. More than 150 easy-to-read entries cover the presidents, first ladies, the Louisiana Purchase, the Gettysburg Address, and more, and over 200 fascinating photographs add to kids' knowledge of these leaders and the key moments that defined their time in office.

Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, The Presidents Visual Encyclopedia is the perfect one-stop reference guide, teaching kids all they need to know about the history of the United States and the remarkable impact our country has had on the rest of the world.