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Many people think Walter Cronkite was the first to report on the shots fired at the Kennedy motorcade on November 22, 1963. But in fact it was UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith. This book tells the story about how Smith managed to pull off one of the most amazing reportorial coups in American history.
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Nationally best-selling author Robert Dallek is one of the most respected historians in America. He has won the American Book Award and the Bancroft Prize for his excellent biographies of U.S. presidents. In An Unfinished Life, Dallek offers the first authoritative, single-volume story of the life of John F. Kennedy.
Drawing from an archive of the previously unavailable information, Dallek paints a brilliant portrait of a legendary president who...
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President Abraham Lincoln grew up in a one-room log cabin. President John F. Kennedy was raised in the lap of luxury. One was a Republican and one a Democrat. They lived and served a hundred years apart.
Yet they had a number of things in common. Some were coincidental: having seven letters in their last names. Some were monumental: Lincoln's support for the abolitionist movement and Kennedy's support for the civil rights movement. They both lost...
10) Hit list: an in-depth investigation into the mysterious deaths of witnesses to the JFK assassination
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Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they're going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. For decades, government pundits have dismissed these "coincidental" deaths, even regarding them as "myths" as "urban legends."
Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these 'coincidences'. After all, events don't "consult...
16) JFK
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Katherine Tegen Books
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c2013
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An illustrated tribute to the 35th president's White House years, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination, offers insight into JFK's cultural significance to everyday Americans.
19) Jackie & me
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"A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
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Reevaluates the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history, seeking to explain the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and recreate the heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance.
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