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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 368 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
Presents the annotated transcription and original audio for the 1964 interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy on her experiences and impressions as the wife of John F. Kennedy, offering an intimate and detailed account of the man and his times
Author
Description
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs. " And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose influence is still felt even today. Kids will be fascinated...
44) Jackie & me
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is “not to be a housewife,” but when she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown party, her resolution begins to falter. Soon the two are flirting over secret phone calls, cocktails, and dinner dates, and as Jackie is drawn deeper into the Kennedy orbit, and as Jack himself grows increasingly...
45) Dallas 1963
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Presents an account of the radicals, reactionaries, and extremists who turned Dallas into a city infamous for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 395 min.) : sound, color & black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journey through the pivotal moments that created one of America's most beloved, influential and controversial figures through 8 programs that commemorate the man and the myth that is John F. Kennedy.
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
493 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, photographs ; 28 cm
Description
JFK brings together in one volume John F. Kennedy?s greatest speeches alongside essays by America?s top historians, analysis from leading political thinkers, and personal insights from preeminent writers and artists. Here is JFK at his best?thought-provoking, inspiring, eloquent, and wise?on a number of wide-ranging topics, including civil rights, the race to the moon, the environment, immigration, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and much more. JFK demonstrates...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 324 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
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.
49) Jackie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of A...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations (black & white) photographs, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
Examines the story behind the bizarre trial of Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, live on national television.
51) If Kennedy lived: the first and second terms of President John F. Kennedy : an alternate history
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xv, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Shares an assessment of Kennedy's administration as it might have evolved had he not been assassinated, covering such topics as the 1964 campaign, his private life issues and his approaches to Vietnam, civil rights and the Cold War.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"'If you are reading this, I am dead.' So begins this engrossing debut novel the ingeniously reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of behemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer, a woman ahead of her time, a feminist who lived by her own rules and paid the ultimately price for her independence. 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 Post's Ben Bradlee....
53) Jackie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of 'Camelot'...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fifty years after the tragic shooting of President John F. Kennedy, this program chronicles minute-by-minute the assassination as it was revealed in the CBS newsroom from the moment the President was shot until Walter Cronkite's emotional pronouncement of his death, one hour and eight minutes later. The title is taken from the time the President was declared dead at the hospital. Included in the program are interviews with men and women who were there...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2020-
Physical Desc
792 pages
Description
"By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War era. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had ascended the ranks of Boston's labyrinthine political machine, Kennedy was bred for government, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest president ever...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
426 pages, [8] p. of plates : ill., facsim. ; 24 cm
Description
Roger Stone lays out the case that Lyndon Johnson manipulated the situation in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and murdered President John F. Kennedy as he murdered numerous other victims along the way. LBJ was not just shooting his way into the White House, he was avoiding political ruin and prosecution and jail for corruption at the hands of the Kennedys.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8, 1960 over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower's former vice president, John F. Kennedy became the thirty-fifth president of the United States. But beneath the stately veneers of both Ike and JFK, there was a complex and consequential rivalry. In Rising Star, Setting Sun, John T. Shaw focuses on the intense ten-week transition between JFK's electoral victory and his inauguration on...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xix, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Traces the author's longtime friendship and love affair with John F. Kennedy, Jr., describing their prep-school antics and shared stage productions before entering into a love affair that ended when Kennedy decided he was not ready to settle down.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xii, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm + 1 CD (79:57 min.; 4 3/4 in.).
Description
Let Every Nation Know is the first book of its kind-a historical biography in Kennedy's own words. Combining a remarkable audio CD of Kennedy's most famous speeches, debates and press conferences with the insights of two of America's preeminent historians, the result is a unique look at the world-changing words and presidency of John F. Kennedy.
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