Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye

Author : Kenneth P. O'Donnell,David F. Powers
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480437784

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"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye" by Kenneth P. O'Donnell,David F. Powers Pdf

This classic New York Times bestseller is an illuminating portrait of JFK—from his thrilling rise to his tragic fall—by two of the men who knew him best. As a politician, John Fitzgerald Kennedy crafted a persona that fascinated and inspired millions—and left an outsize legacy in the wake of his murder on November 22, 1963. But only a select few were privy to the complicated man behind the Camelot image. Two such confidants were Kenneth P. O’Donnell, Kennedy’s top political aide, and David F. Powers, a special assistant in the White House. They were among the president’s closest friends, part of an exclusive inner circle that came to be known as the “Irish Mafia.” In Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, O’Donnell and Powers share memories of Kennedy, his extraordinary political career, and his iconic family—memories that could come only from intimate access to the man himself. As they recount the full scope of Kennedy’s journey—from his charismatic first campaign for Congress to his rapid rise to national standing, culminating on that haunting day in Dallas—O’Donnell and Powers lay bare the inner workings of a leader who is cherished and mourned to this day, in a memoir that spent over five months on the New York Times bestseller list.

Author : Kenneth P. O'Donnell,David F. Powers
Publisher : Open Road Media Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1480437832

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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye by Kenneth P. O'Donnell,David F. Powers Pdf

The two devoted Kennedy aides provide a warm portrait of the former president drawn from their fifteen years in his service.

Author : Helen O'Donnell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480437791

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A Common Good by Helen O'Donnell Pdf

An illuminating account of the history-making friendship between RFK and the chief of staff to JFK—a bond built on shared ideals, but severed by tragedy. When they first met at Harvard in 1946, young Bobby Kennedy and Kenny O’Donnell could not have imagined where their lives would take them. Teammates on both the football and debate teams, they formed a partnership that would sustain them through the years, from Robert Kennedy’s tenure as attorney general to O’Donnell’s years as John F. Kennedy’s chief of staff. Together they lived, worked, and struggled through some of the most pivotal moments of the twentieth century, including the assassination of JFK in Dallas. Their harmonious relationship was cut short only by Bobby’s own tragic death. With full access to the Kennedy family archives, Helen O’Donnell brings an inspiring personal and political alliance to life. With A Common Good, she amply fulfills the promise she made to her late father to honor and preserve his memories of Robert F. Kennedy for future generations. Kirkus Reviews hails A Common Good as “a moving and intimate study of a unique friendship but also of the time and place, now long ago, in which this friendship formed and blossomed.” O’Donnell “set out to write ‘a good book about two good men.’ In this she has succeeded.”

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447249757

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Frog Music by Emma Donoghue Pdf

Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room. San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything – and leaving one of them dead. A New York Times bestseller, Frog Music is a dark and compelling story of intrigue and murder.

Author : Robert T. Littell
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466851856

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The Men We Became by Robert T. Littell Pdf

For over twenty years Robert Littell was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s closest confidant. Now, in a beautiful and moving memoir, Littell introduces us to the private John. A story of laughter and sorrow, joy and heartbreak, The Men We Became is an unforgettable memoir. Rob Littell was a freshman at Brown when he met the young JFK, Jr. during orientation week. Although Littell came from a privileged background, it was worlds apart from the glamorous life of the son of the late President and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Eager to be accepted on his own terms, Kennedy admired Littell's irreverence toward his celebrity and they became close friends. John opened up to Littell on a very personal level, revealing the complex and sometimes tense nature of his relationships with his sister and cousins, as well as his mother's extraordinary influence on John - and how they both worked to keep it from being overbearing. John's marriage had its ups and downs and Carolyn had made enemies of some of his friends, but she was in great shape mentally and physically and they were planning to have children. Littell recounts wonderful dinners at Jacqueline Onassis's apartment where she surprised him with his favorite dinner of specially burned hamburgers and weekends at her retreat in Martha's Vineyard where she critiqued their touch football while lying on a chaise lounge, her face covered in cold cream and cucumber slices. As students, Littell and Kennedy bummed around Europe. They slept in Hyde Park, sampled the pleasures of Amsterdam, ran afoul of customs officers and almost got busted at the Ritz Hotel for smoking pot. They even shared apartments in New York City until Jackie summoned them to dinner one day and gently suggested it was time to grow up. The two went on to pursue their professional lives. John trained as a lawyer - and Littell speaks of his friend's anguish at repeatedly failing the bar - and then he founded his own political magazine, which seemed only fitting because Kennedy yearned to live up to the family name and accepted that politics would be his destiny. Later on, Littell was a part of JFK, Jr.'s secret wedding to Carolyn Bessette on Cumberland Island, Georgia, and three years later a pallbearer at his funeral. From shared adventures, private moments and lasting memories, Robert Littell offers a unique look at John F. Kennedy Jr.'s life - one that has never been seen before.

Author : Jonathan Lighter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1935243896

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"The Best Antiwar Song Ever Written" by Jonathan Lighter Pdf

The well-known folk song "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" is widely regarded as a traditional Irish anti-war song which was later rewritten as the pro-war "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." Jonathan Lighter, Lecturer in English at the University of Tennessee and editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, reveals the surprising history of "Johnny," uncovering its roots and tracing its ever-changing role in popular culture up to the present day.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann,Kirstie M. McClure
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271046929

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Feminist Interpretations of John Locke by Nancy J. Hirschmann,Kirstie M. McClure Pdf

Author : Kenneth P. O'Donnell,Joe McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1423884066

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"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye" by Kenneth P. O'Donnell,Joe McCarthy Pdf

Author : John Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Gibson guitar
ISBN : 0983082782

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Kalamazoo Gals by John Thomas Pdf

According to company lore, Gibson, the guitar manufacturer, had ceased guitar production during World War II with only "seasoned craftsmen" too old for battle doing repairs and completing the few instruments already in progress at their Kalamazoo, Michigan factory. However, beginning in 1942, Gibson started producing wartime guitars each marked with a small, golden "banner" displaying the slogan: "only a Gibson is good enough." Over 9000 of these "Banner" guitars were produced between 1942 and 1945 and they are considered to be some of the finest acoustic guitars ever produced but who was making them? In this work of musical and social history, Thomas explores the origins of the Gibson "Banner" guitars and the remarkable women, many of whom had no prior training in instrument construction, who built them.

Author : Murray Weiss
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060508234

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The Man Who Warned America by Murray Weiss Pdf

The first comprehensive inside look at the investigation into Al Qaeda, and at John O፥ill, the FBI counter–terrorism agent who warned that an attack like September 11 was imminent. For many people, September 11 was the day ೨e unimaginableߨappened. But one FBI agent, John O፥ill, had repeatedly warned the US Government that such an attack was possible. Ironically, O፥ill lost his own life on September 11, just days after beginning a new job as head of security for the World Trade Center. As one of the FBI's foremost counter–terrorism experts, John O፥ill played a leading role in almost every major investigation of terrorism against Americans in the past decade. O፥ill was a dashing, larger–than–life character who irritated many members of US and foreign governments with his aggressive, hands–on tactics and his insistent, repeated warnings about the possibility of an attack on US soil. Disillusioned by his experiences with the FBI, O፥ill left governmental service to assume the position of chief of security for the Twin Towers in August 2001. Full of twists and turns, John O፥ill's tragic story reveals how one man's unheeded warnings came back to haunt the country he worked so hard to defend.

Author : Chris Ware
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Boys
ISBN : OCLC:82163094

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"Jimmy" Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware Pdf

Author : Henry Bushkin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544217621

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Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin Pdf

An unreserved and incisive account of the career and personal life of the "King of Late Night" at the height of his fame and influence is shared from the perspective of his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant.

Author : S. E Hinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fugitives from justice
ISBN : 0137012608

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The Outsiders by S. E Hinton Pdf

Author : Henry Halliday Sparling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : PRNC:32101013711013

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Irish Minstrelsy by Henry Halliday Sparling Pdf

Author : Randal Allred
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813143217

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The Civil War in Popular Culture by Randal Allred Pdf

“An important read for anyone trying to sort through the current social and political controversy over the question of how do we memorialize the Civil War.” —Strategy Page Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country’s destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suffer the aftershocks of the nation’s largest and most devastating war. Over a century and a half later, portrayals of the war in books, songs, cinema, and other cultural media continue to draw widespread attention and controversy. In The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning, editors Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr. and Randal Allred analyze American depictions of the war across a variety of mediums, from books and film to monuments and battlefield reunions to reenactments and board games. This collection examines how battle strategies, famous generals, and the nuances of Civil War politics translate into contemporary popular culture. This unique analysis assesses the intersection of the Civil War and popular culture by recognizing how memories and commemorations of the war have changed since it ended in 1865.