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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
Author
Series
A Mentor book volume ME2514
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1969]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
224 p. illus., facsim. (on lining papers), ports. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 838 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades draws upon previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives to tell Kennedy's story. We learn for the first time just how sick Kennedy was, how Bobby was selected as Attorney General, exactly what Jack's father did to help his election to the presidency, and more.
Author
Language
English
Description
William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of the days immediately preceding and following President John F. Kennedy's death.
Through hundreds of interviews, abundant travel and firsthand observation,...
As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of the days immediately preceding and following President John F. Kennedy's death.
Through hundreds of interviews, abundant travel and firsthand observation,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and the deceit of Camelot. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
'What was he like?' Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that question. Chris Matthews gives us just that. The man you discover here wanted never to be alone, never to be bored. He loved courage, hated war, and lived each day as if it were his last. This extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those close to JFK, oral histories, primary documents, and notes from Jackie Kennedy's first interview after...
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
485 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger investigates the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy. Swagger is asking questions that few have asked before: Why did the third bullet explode? Why did Lee Harvey Oswald, about to become the most hunted man on earth, risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him? How could a conspiracy that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The man who saved the lives of his PT-109 crewmen during WWII and became the 35th president fought-and won-his first battle at the age of two-and-a-half, when he was stricken with scarlet fever. Although his presidency was cut short, our nation's youngest elected leader left an indelible mark on the American consciousness and now is profiled in our Who Was ...? series. Included are 100 black-and-white illustrations as well as a timeline that guides...
Author
Series
Paul Christopher novels volume 2
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
c1974
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Secret agent Paul Christopher develops a theory about who assassinated John F. Kennedy, but when his theory threatens to destroy the public's opinion of the president, Christopher is ordered off the investigation, forcing him to resign and continue the investigation on his own.
Publisher
Mascot Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
363 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
JFK: The Last Speech explores the dramatic relationship between two seminal Americans: President John F. Kennedy and the poet Robert Frost, which reached its tragic climax in a surprising encounter with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War. Born out of these events is Kennedys remarkable speech about poetry and power, which alters the life course of a group of Amherst College classmates who witness this compelling address...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p., ; black and white photos
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late...
19) Doing business
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone becomes a suspect when bathroom business is done in the wrong place.
This bright, brilliant, and dryly humorous new picture book is the perfect go-to guide for going Number Two. Someone has done business where they're not supposed to. But who was it? Suspense builds as suspects are rhythmically, methodically eliminated. We know it wasn't the baby (diaper), or Daddy (bathroom), or the lion at the zoo (too risky). There's a place for everything,...
20) Red Square
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
418 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigator Arkady Renco returns to Moscow and finds everything has changed and the only entity that functions is the economy, run by the Russian Mafia.
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