Jack 1939

Author : Francine Mathews
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101588857

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Jack 1939 by Francine Mathews Pdf

Charming. Reckless. Brilliant. Deadly. A young Jack Kennedy travels to Europe on a secret mission for Franklin Roosevelt as the world braces for war. It’s the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In Washington, D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term and needs someone he can trust to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy. It’s a surprising selection. At twenty-two, Jack Kennedy is the attractive but unpromising second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain (and occasional political adversary). But when Jack decides to travel through Europe to gather research for his Harvard senior thesis, Roosevelt takes the opportunity to use him as his personal spy. The president’s goal: to stop the flow of German money that has been flooding the United States to buy the 1940 election—an election that Adolf Hitler intends Roosevelt lose. In a deft mosaic of fact and fiction, Francine Mathews has written a gripping espionage tale that explores what might have happened when a young Jack Kennedy is let loose in Europe as the world careens toward war. A potent combination of history and storytelling, Jack 1939 is a sexy, entertaining read.

Author : Jack O'Brien
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374603830

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Jack in the Box by Jack O'Brien Pdf

The Tony Award–winning director gathers memories of people, productions, and problems surmounted from his fifty-year career in this one-of-a-kind how-to handbook. What do directors do? Jack O’Brien, the winner of Tony and Drama Desk Awards and the former artistic director of San Diego’s historic Old Globe theatre, describes it like this: “You stand before a situation in which something is presented to you. You’re afforded a challenge. Like catching an enormous ball. And you respond. You come up with a vision of some kind. That is, if you respond to the material at all, and one must, or it’s doomed. You sort of feel that since you relate to the material at hand, you might as well try to be helpful.” In Jack in the Box, O’Brien’s follow-up to his memoir Jack Be Nimble, the director collects stories from the many productions he has worked on, the great talents he encountered and collaborated with (including Tom Stoppard, Mike Nichols, Jerry Lewis, Marsha Mason, and many others), and the choices he made, on the stage and off, that have come to define his career. With humor, warmth, and contagious excitement, O’Brien takes the reader by the shoulder, pulls them in, and tells them how to become a director—or, at the very least, relates an unfailingly honest story of how he did.

Author : David Pitts
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786732241

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Jack and Lem by David Pitts Pdf

I'm not that kind of boy,” Jack angrily wrote to Lem after his friend made a sexual advance. But Jack didn't end the relationship. From the time John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings met at Choate, until the President's assassination thirty years later, Jack and Lem remained best friends. Lem was a virtual fixture in the Kennedy family who even had his own room at the White House. Drawing on hundreds of letters and telegrams between the two, plus Lem Billings's oral history and interviews with family and friends like Ben Bradlee, Gore Vidal, and Ted Sorensen, award-winning Kennedy scholar David Pitts tells the story of an unusual friendship that endured despite an era of rampant homophobia.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00186958925

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Investigation of the Naval Defense Program by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:$B12361

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International Review of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520079086

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The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films by American Film Institute Pdf

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015065722830

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Colonial Office List ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Almanacs
ISBN : UOM:39015055427978

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The World Almanac and Book of Facts by Anonim Pdf

Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCR:31210015115999

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Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) Pdf

Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Voting registers
ISBN : NYPL:33433093300709

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Transcript of the Enrollment Books by New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119316615

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The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List for ... by Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations Pdf

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806537603

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Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Pdf

The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Medicine
ISBN : MINN:31951D00422786D

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National Library of Medicine Current Catalog by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Radio advertising
ISBN : UOM:39015080101259

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Broadcasting: Yearbook-marketbook Issue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alpheus Hyatt Mayor,Lillian Moore,Walter Terry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Dance
ISBN : OSU:32435024748329

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Dance Perspectives by Alpheus Hyatt Mayor,Lillian Moore,Walter Terry Pdf