Books 81 - 90 |
Presidents |
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Kochmann Rachel M.
2003 |
A picturial guide of
Presidents' Birthplaces, Homes and Burial sites, including Presidential
Libraries. |
Presidents and
Famous Americans |
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AA.VV.
1968 |
Volume 12 of "The American
Heritage Book of Presidents and Famous Americans", dedicated to John
F.Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. |
Qui a tue' le
President? |
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Jean-Pierre Pecau, Fred Duval and Fred
Blanchard.
2011 |
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. |
Remembering
America
[A voice from the Sixties] |
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Richard N. Goodwin
1989 |
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. |
Sette giorni a Maggio |
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Knebel Fletcher & Bailey Vharles W. II
1963 |
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. |
Shooting Kennedy :
JFK and the culture of images |
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Lubin David M.
2003 |
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. |
Taking Charge -
The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 |
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Beschloss Michael R.
1997 |
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. |
Texas in the
Morning |
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Duncan Brown Madeleine
1997 |
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. |
The Accidental President
[The
Electio Year Blockbuster on LBJ] |
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Robert Sherrill
1968 |
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
1735-1918 - America's First Dinasty |
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Brookhiser Richard
2002 |
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.
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