A Thousand Days
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1128
ISBN-13: 9780618219278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of John F. Kennedy's campaign, election, and days as President.
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Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1128
ISBN-13: 9780618219278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of John F. Kennedy's campaign, election, and days as President.
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 1112
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Special Assistant to President Kennedy describes the historic events in which John F. Kennedy participated during his three years in the White House." --
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781579124496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger's close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president "walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing" (John Kenneth Galbraith). A THOUSAND DAYS is "at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance" (New York Times).
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 939
ISBN-13: 9780449308523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger's close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president "walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing" (John Kenneth Galbraith). A THOUSAND DAYS is "at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance" (New York Times).
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thurston Clarke
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1101617802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Kirkus Best Book of 2013 A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend is what might have been. As we approach the anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, JFK’s Last Hundred Days reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise. Kennedy’s last hundred days began just after the death of two-day-old Patrick Kennedy, and during this time, the president made strides in the Cold War, civil rights, Vietnam, and his personal life. While Jackie was recuperating, the premature infant and his father were flown to Boston for Patrick’s treatment. Kennedy was holding his son’s hand when Patrick died on August 9, 1963. The loss of his son convinced Kennedy to work harder as a husband and father, and there is ample evidence that he suspended his notorious philandering during these last months of his life. Also in these months Kennedy finally came to view civil rights as a moral as well as a political issue, and after the March on Washington, he appreciated the power of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., for the first time. Though he is often depicted as a devout cold warrior, Kennedy pushed through his proudest legislative achievement in this period, the Limited Test Ban Treaty. This success, combined with his warming relations with Nikita Khrushchev in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, led to a détente that British foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas- Home hailed as the “beginning of the end of the Cold War.” Throughout his presidency, Kennedy challenged demands from his advisers and the Pentagon to escalate America’s involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy began a reappraisal in the last hundred days that would have led to the withdrawal of all sixteen thousand U.S. military advisers by 1965. JFK’s Last Hundred Days is a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy’s public and private lives, explains why the grief following his assassination has endured so long, and solves the most tantalizing Kennedy mystery of all—not who killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led us.
Author: Richard Reeves
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2013-12-09
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 1613122365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revealing and intimate portrait of a president, husband, and father as seen through the lens of the first official White House photographer. Cecil Stoughton’s close rapport with President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave him extraordinary access to the Oval Office, the Kennedys’ private quarters and homes, state dinners, cabinet meetings, diplomatic trips, and family holidays. Drawing on Stoughton’s unparalleled body of photographs, most rarely or never before reproduced, and supported by a deeply thoughtful narrative by political historian Richard Reeves, Portrait of Camelot is an unprecedented portrayal of the power, politics, and warmly personal aspects of Camelot’s 1,036 days. “Reveals an intimate account of a very public figure...the rare archive of images features the president during state dinners and cabinet meetings at the White House to family holidays and vacations at their private homes.” —Vanity Fair
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)
Publisher:
Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the influences on the now legendary Kennedy administration. This account of John F. Kennedy's presidency reveals his personality and politics and describes the men of his administration.
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Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781401304713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn July 1962, in an effort to preserve an accurate record of Presidential decision-making in a highly charged atmosphere of conflicting viewpoints, strategies and tactics, John F. Kennedy installed hidden recording systems in the Oval Office and in the Cabinet Room. The result is a priceless historical archive comprising some 265 hours of taped material. JFK was elected president when Civil Rights tensions were near the boiling point, and Americans feared a nuclear war. Confronted with complex dilemmas necessitating swift and unprecedented action, President Kennedy engaged in intense discussion and debate with his cabinet members and other advisors. Now, in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy presidency, the John F. Kennedy Library and historian Ted Widmer have carefully selected the most compelling and important of these remarkable recordings for release, fully restored and re-mastered onto two 75-minute CDs for the first time. Listening In represents a uniquely unscripted, insider account of a president and his cabinet grappling with the day-to-day business of the White House and guiding the nation through a hazardous era of uncertainty. Accompanied by extensively annotated transcripts of the recordings, and with a foreword by Caroline Kennedy, Listening In delivers the story behind the story in the unguarded words and voices of the decision-makers themselves. Listening In covers watershed events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, Vietnam, and the arms race, and offers fascinating glimpses into the intellectual methodology of a circumspect president and his brilliant, eclectic brain trust. Just as the unique vision of President John F. Kennedy continues to resonate half a century after his stirring speeches and bold policy decisions, the documentary candor of Listening In imparts a vivid, breathtaking immediacy that will significantly expand our understanding of his time in office.
Author: Aurther M. Schlesinger Jr.
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 1087
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