In this beautifully written, bestselling account of the death of John F. Kennedy, Manchester speaks with a sense of immediacy and authenticity about what really happened and why. "A book that will be used by historians for the next 2,000 years".--James Michener.
The author of the bestsellers American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 and The Last Lion offers a compelling account of President John F. Kennedy's last six days--the only record authorized by the Kennedy family--written with remarkable detail and immediacy, and with an intimacy that is unparalleled in the literature.
This biography of John F. Kennedy draws on the author's access to documents and other sources that reveal some hitherto unknown information, including the true state of Kennedy's health. Author Dallek also reveals that Kennedy had an affair with a White House intern. But mostly this is a serious study of the life and 1,000-day presidency, with an ...
Bugliosi, brilliant prosecutor and bestselling author, is perhaps the only man in America capable of "prosecuting" Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder of John F. Kennedy. His book is a narrative compendium of fact, ballistic evidence, and, above all, common sense.
A critical view of John Kennedy and his administration, concentrating on the ways in which the president's personality influenced his decisions in affairs of state. Hersh maintains that Kennedy felt a profound urge to assert his masculinity in any confrontation, and that this led him--particularly in his foreign policy--into ill-advised blunders.
This prizewinning study of President Kennedy and and his administration was written by perhaps his closest aide and friend, and sets a high standard for insider accounts that aspire to the level of history.
In this memoir of loss, Carole Radziwill tells how, in the course of a month, three of the most important people in her life died: her husband, Anthony, who had fought a long bout with cancer, and their best friends, John and Carolyn B. Kennedy, who perished in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. An ABC staffer, Carole had married ...
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping expose of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret ...
Respected journalist and historian Jim Bishop re-creates, in hourly segments, that tragic day, November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was killed.
The explosive facts surrounding the CIA's involvement in President Kennedy's murder, presented for the first time in paperback. In 1966, Lane was therst to expose the flaws in the Warren Commission's official report, and his bestselling book Rush to Judgment revealed that Oswald could not have acted alone. Now he continues his ground-breaking ...
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When 'history' presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an ...
On the basis of more than 300 interviews with those who knew the couple, the author breaks through a wall of secrecy to reveal the true dynamic between John and Jacqueline Kennedy, the couple who "built Camelot".
For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a tawdry story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behaviour. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has long been submerged - until now. In Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, David Talbot sheds a dramatic new ...
Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, this book revisits the investigation of the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted (in 1969) a suspect in the murder of President John F. ...
'An epic tale' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Fascinating' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Anyone with curiosity will find a reason to read Origins Reconsidered: it is a superb account of the state of knowledge concerning the evolution of our species ...Richard Leakey sees the wood and not just the trees' NEW SCIENTIST
Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies. Scott ...
Film rights to Reclaiming History have been optioned by Tom Hanks. "Four Days in November" is an extraordinarily exciting, precise and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963. It is drawn from Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy", a huge and ...
Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows in particular the effects of his father's ruthless political tutelage and follows JFK through a career marked by an ever widening gap between the public image ...
This group biography of the powerful men in the Kennedy clan begins with Joseph P. Kennedy and follows the exploits of what became a dynasty in American politics. The author also wrote THE KENNEDY WOMEN.
This is a diary kept by J.F.K. during his travels through Europe in the summer of 1945. He was 28 years old and worked as a correspondent for the Hearst newspapers.
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" consists of a story cycle chronicling the political life of Horne Fisher, cousin and secretary to a politician--a life that distresses and horrifies his friend, journalist Harold March.
The thrilling, quirky adventures of WWII Coast Guard Lt. Josh Thurlow continue in this sequel to THE KEEPER'S SON. Josh is patrolling the Solomon Islands when he's given a new assignment: arrest or execute Lt. David Armistead, Josh's friend and President Roosevelt's cousin, who appears to have deserted. Josh's partner in this mission? Navy Lt. ...
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
