Bay of Pigs Declassified : The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion
of Cuba
(National Security Archive Documents Reader)
by Peter Kornbluh (Editor)
Listed under Bay of Pigs
An
Unfinished Life
by Robert Dallek
A
Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
by Arthur M. Jr. Schlesinger (Author)
(Paperback)
Remembering
Jack and Bobby: A Kennedy Anthology
by Sheila L. Cassidy (Editor), Shelia L. Cassidy
(Paperback - December 1992)
Camelot
at Dawn : Jacqueline and John Kennedy in May, 1954
by Orlando Suero (Photographer), Anne Garside
Hardcover: 128 pages
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801868564; (November 2001)
Contract on America : The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
David E. Scheim
Listed under Kennedy Assassination
The
Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Paperback - 960 pages 1 touchsto edition (January 2001)
Touchstone Books; ISBN: 0743201752
The
Greatest Speeches of President John F. Kennedy
by John F. Kennedy
(Paperback)
Jack
and Bobby
by Tom Murphy
(Hardcover - November 1998)
Jack:
The Early Years of John F. Kennedy
by Ilene Cooper
(Hardcover - January 2003)
Jack
and Jackie : Portrait of an American Marriage
Christopher Andersen,
Paperback / Published 1997
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JFK: The Kennedy Tapes, Vol. I, Original Speeches of the Presidential
Years
Audio CD
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John
F. Kennedy and a New Generation (The Library of American Biography)
David Burner
Hardcover / Published 1988
Jack:
A Life Like No Other
by Geoffrey Perret
(Hardcover - October 2001)
The
Kennedy Men 1901-1963: The Laws of the Father
by Laurence Leamer
(Hardcover - October 2001)
Jacqueline Kennedy : The White House Years: Selections from the John
F. Kennedy Library and Museum
by Hamish Bowles (Editor), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Listed under Jacqueline Kennedy
Kennedy
White House : Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963
by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
(Hardcover - October 2001)
John F. Kennedy and His Family Paper Dolls in Full Color
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Kennedy:
Stories of Life and Death from an American Family
by Clint Willis (Editor)
(Paperback)
The Kennedy Tapes : Inside
the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Ernest R. May (Editor), Philip D. Zelikow (Editor)
For 13 days in October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union
teetered on the brink of a nuclear exchange after the Soviets placed intermediate-range
missiles on the island of Cuba. U.S. forces were poised at red alert while
the Soviets pledged to launch nuclear weapons if the island was invaded.
As the world watched anxiously, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev negotiated a truce that averted disaster. Amazon.com
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The
Kennedys at War, 1937-1945
by Edward J., Jr. Renehan
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Somebody once asked John F. Kennedy how he became a war hero. "It was
easy," he replied. "They sank my boat." JFK's adventure aboard PT-109 in
the Second World War is fairly well-known. Kennedy's boat did indeed sink
in the Pacific, but it was his able leadership that helped his men survive
in dangerous waters and then on a deserted island. This episode comprises
only a sliver of Edward J. Renehan Jr.'s story of the Kennedy family at
war. Father Joe Kennedy, who was FDR's isolationist ambassador to Great
Britain, looms over much of the book, especially the first half. JFK's
older brother, Joe Jr., was also involved in the war; when he died on a
bombing raid, the family's political aspirations shifted onto Jack. (Sisters
Kathleen and Rosemary also receive due attention.) Renehan provides a fascinating
glimpse at how the central event of the 20th century shaped one of America's
great dynasties. He disputes a few previous interpretations--he says JFK's
book Why England Slept became a bestseller because of its merits rather
than his father's eagerness to buy multiple copies. What emerges is a clear
picture of the future president as a young man and a story of how a war
changed him: He "looked at life and the world in a new and unique way,
operating from a perspective he could not have previously imagined." The
Kennedys at War is a welcome addition to a crowded field of Kennedy books
and highly recommended for anybody interested in this fascinating family.
--John
Miller - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 384 pages
Doubleday; ISBN: 038550165X; (April 16, 2002)
Kennedy's
Wars : Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam
by Lawrence Freedman
(Hardcover - November 2000)
Kennedy
Weddings : A Family Album
by Jay Mulvaney, Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Hardcover - October 1999)
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell, et al
Listed under Mythology
The
Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy: Volumes 1-3, The Great Crises
by Philip D. Zelikow (Editor), et al
(Hardcover - October 2001)
Profiles
in Courage
by John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy (Foreword)
(Paperback - March 2000)
PT 109 : John F. Kennedy in WWII
by Robert J. Donovan
Listed under PT Boats
Silencing the Lone Assassin : The Murders of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald
by John A. Canal
Listed under Kennedy Assassination
Why
England Slept
by John F. Kennedy
Written by John F. Kennedy in 1940 when he was still in college and
reprinted in 1961 when he was president, this book is an appraisal of the
tragic events of the thirties that led to World War II. It is an account
of England's unpreparedness for war and a study of the shortcomings of
democracy when confronted by the menace of totalitarianism. The Publisher.
(Hardcover - October 1981)
Kennedy's Quest for Victory : American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963
Thomas G. Paterson (Editor)
Hardcover / Published 1989
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