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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of communism. Despite personal and political trials, Kennedy's approval ratings soar. At the same time, JFK acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khruschchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Allen Dulles, director of the CIA. Then, in the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down, resulting in national...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"As John Kennedy Jr.'s creative director for George magazine, Matt Berman had a wonderfully collaborative and fun-loving relationship with America's favorite son--his story is told here with unprecedented candor and wit. The Kennedys--their poise, the family secrets, and their grace in the face of unimaginable tragedies--have captured the imagination and interest of the public for more than fifty years. Now, colleague and friend of JFK Jr., Matt...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
An account of JFK's final months examines his roles in advancing civil rights and the Limited Test Ban Treaty, recounts the death of his premature infant son, and considers what might have occurred had he not been assassinated
Author
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Examines how popular memory of John F. Kennedy has been used politically by various interest groups, primarily the city of Dallas, Lyndon Johnson, and Robert Kennedy, as well as how the memory of Kennedy has been portrayed in various museums."--Amazon.com
66) John F. Kennedy
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
67) The legacy
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When Cole Egan, a Wall Street security trader inherits a video tape disproving the official version of the JFK assassination, he thinks his financial worries are over--the papers will pay a fortune. Instead, he becomes the target of assassins.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer, LSD explorer and early feminist living by her own rules.She was a longtime lover of JFK.She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Posts Ben Bradlee.She believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy...
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Series
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English
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January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power — a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
An account of Jack and Jackie Kennedy's final year together reveals details of their complex marriage, including rumored infidelities, the president's hidden medical problems, and the tragic death of their infant son.
74) John F. Kennedy
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Series
Publisher
Bookwright Press
Pub. Date
1986, c1985
Language
English
Description
Chronicles, the life, family background, political career, and assassination of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It's not even a clue. Its a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath. But its enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our time. Swagger...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact, told by Zapruder's granddaughter, draws on personal records and previously sealed archive sources to trace the film's role in the media, courts, government, and arts community.
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Language
English
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Description
"The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she’d stumbled onto the project of a lifetime—a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of extraordinary women who in 1960 passed the same tests as the legendary male astronauts...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
There are few days in American history so immortalized in public memory as November 22, 1963, the date of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Adding to the wealth of information about this tragic day is We Were There, a truly unique collection of firsthand accounts from the doctors and staff on scene at the hospital where JFK was immediately taken after he was shot.
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