The Politics Of John F Kennedy

Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316370721

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The Death of a President by William Manchester Pdf

William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination--now restored to print in a new paperback edition. As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of the days immediately preceding and following President John F. Kennedy's death. Through hundreds of interviews, abundant travel and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation, accumulating forty-five volumes of documents, exhibits, and transcribed tapes. His ultimate objective -- to set down as a whole the national and personal tragedy that was JFK's assassination -- is brilliantly achieved in this galvanizing narrative, a book universally acclaimed as a landmark work of modern history.

Author : Edmund Ions
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317796589

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The Politics of John F. Kennedy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 1) by Edmund Ions Pdf

Drawing on material from many sources, including official and semi-official records, contemporary historical writing and reliable journals, this volume illustrates why John F. Kennedy's Presidency was one of the most eventful and significant in American history. Through this volume the student can learn how to read and asess historical documents and learn to discriminate among a number of sources and weigh evidence.

Author : Peter Dale Scott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0520917847

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Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott Pdf

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 offers a disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedy's death, and of the "structural defects" within the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the lone assassin theory and the investigations undertaken by the House Committee on Assassinations, and unearths new connections between Oswald, Ruby, and corporate and law enforcement forces. Revisiting the controversy popularized in Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Scott probes the link between Kennedy's assassination and the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He contends that Kennedy's plans to withdraw troops from Vietnam—offensive to a powerful anti-Kennedy military and political coalition—were secretly annulled when Johnson came to power. The split between JFK and his Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the collaboration between Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police in 1963, are two of the several missing pieces Scott adds to the puzzle of who killed Kennedy and why. Scott presses for a new investigation of the Kennedy assassination, not as an external conspiracy but as a power shift within the subterranean world of American politics. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK shatters our notions of one of the central events of the twentieth century.

Author : John F. Kennedy
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1579120148

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Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy Pdf

Describes the courage and conviction demonstrated by some great Americans

Author : Edmund S. Ions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415491118

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The Politics of John F. Kennedy by Edmund S. Ions Pdf

Author : Patrick Lacroix
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700630493

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John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith by Patrick Lacroix Pdf

In John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith Patrick Lacroix explores the intersection of religion and politics in the era of Kennedy’s presidency. In doing so Lacroix challenges the established view that the postwar religious revival disappeared when President Eisenhower left office and that the contentious election of 1960, which carried John F. Kennedy to the White House, struck a definitive blow to anti-Catholic prejudice. Where most studies on the origins of the Christian right trace its emergence to the first battles of the culture wars of the late 1960s and early 1970s, echoing the Christian right’s own assertion that the “secular sixties” was a decade of waning religiosity in which faith-based groups largely eschewed political engagement, Lacroix persuasively argues for the Kennedy years as an important moment in the arc of American religious history. Lacroix analyzes the numerous ways in which faith-based engagement with politics and politicians’ efforts to mobilize denominational groups did not evaporate in the early 1960s. Rather, the civil rights movement, major Supreme Court rulings, events in Rome, and Kennedy’s own approach to recurrent religious controversy reshaped the landscape of faith and politics in the period. Kennedy lived up to the pledge he made to the country in Houston in 1960 with a genuine commitment to the separation of church and state with his stance on aid to education, his willingness to reverse course with the Peace Corps and the Agency for International Development, and his outreach to Protestant and Jewish clergy. The remarks he offered at the National Prayer Breakfast and in countless other settings had the cumulative effect of diminishing long-standing anxieties about Catholic power. In his own way, Kennedy demanded of Protestants that they live up to their own much-vaunted commitment to church-state separation. This principle could not mean one thing for Catholics and something entirely different for other people of faith. American Protestants could not consistently oppose public funding for religious schools—because those schools were overwhelmingly Catholic—while defending religious exercises in public schools. Lacroix reveals how close the country came, during the Kennedy administration, to a satisfactory solution to the fundamental religious challenge of the postwar years—the public accommodation of pluralism—as Kennedy came to embrace a nascent “religious left” that supported his civil rights bill and the nuclear test ban treaty.

Author : Bruce Miroff
Publisher : David McKay Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000025991000

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Pragmatic Illusions by Bruce Miroff Pdf

Author : Ira Stoll
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547585987

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JFK, Conservative by Ira Stoll Pdf

For the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy comes a sure-to-be-controversial argument that by virtually any standard, JFK was far more conservative than liberal.

Author : Donald C. Lord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012406511

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John F. Kennedy by Donald C. Lord Pdf

An account of the life and times of John F. Kennedy stressing his political career and including chapters on image-making and the verdict of history.

Author : Robert C. Smith
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438445618

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John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance by Robert C. Smith Pdf

Political analysts and journalists often draw analogies between John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic Irish president, and Barack Obama, the first African American president. Their election to the nation's highest office was historic, but for reasons not fully appreciated. In John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance, Robert C. Smith provides a fascinating comparison of the challenges both men faced in their bid for the presidency, while at the same time providing comparative histories of the Catholic Irish and African American struggles to overcome racial and religious subordination in America. Kennedy's Catholicism was an explicit issue in the 1960 election, and once elected he was extremely careful to avoid appearing either "too Irish" or "too Catholic." While Obama's race was not an explicit issue in the 2008 election, he was just as careful to avoid appearing "too black." Paradoxically religion—thanks to rumors and lies about whether Obama was a Muslim—became a substitute for race, allowing Republican strategists to "otherize" Obama by raising the issue of religion in the context of national security and terrorism.

Author : Alan Brinkley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429974226

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John F. Kennedy by Alan Brinkley Pdf

The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961—the youngest man ever elected to the office—and he personified what he called the "New Frontier" as the United States entered the 1960s. But as Alan Brinkley shows in this incisive and lively assessment, the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend. His brief presidency encountered significant failures—among them the Bay of Pigs fiasco, which cast its shadow on nearly every national-security decision that followed. But Kennedy also had successes, among them the Cuban Missile Crisis and his belated but powerful stand against segregation. Kennedy seemed to live on a knife's edge, moving from one crisis to another—Cuba, Laos, Berlin, Vietnam, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. His controversial public life mirrored his hidden private life. He took risks that would seem reckless and even foolhardy when they emerged from secrecy years later. Kennedy's life, and his violent and sudden death, reshaped our view of the presidency. Brinkley gives us a full picture of the man, his times, and his enduring legacy.

Author : Donald C. Lord,Ivie E. Cadenhead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : United States
ISBN : 081200521X

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John F. Kennedy by Donald C. Lord,Ivie E. Cadenhead Pdf

Author : Alice L. George
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415895569

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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Alice L. George Pdf

This book traces the events of Kennedy’s assassination and Lyndon B. Johnson’s subsequent ascension to the presidency. Covering both the political shifts of the time and the cultural fallout of the national tragedy, this book introduces both an iconic event and the context in which that event was heralded as iconic. Drawing on newspaper articles, political speeches, letters, and diaries, the author critically re-examines the event of JFK’s death and its persistent political and cultural legacy.

Author : Jeff Greenfield
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780698138445

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If Kennedy Lived by Jeff Greenfield Pdf

What if Kennedy were not killed that fateful day? What would the 1964 campaign have looked like? Would changes have been made to the ticket? How would Kennedy, in his second term, have approached Vietnam, civil rights, the Cold War? With Hoover as an enemy, would his indiscreet private life finally have become public? Would his health issues have become so severe as to literally cripple his presidency? And what small turns of fate in the days and years before Dallas might have kept him from ever reaching the White House in the first place? The answers Greenfield provides and the scenarios he develops are startlingly realistic, rich in detail, shocking in their projections, but always deeply, remarkably plausible. If Kennedy Lived is a tour de force of American history from one of the country’s most brilliant and illuminating political commentators.

Author : Patrick J. Sloyan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250030603

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The Politics of Deception by Patrick J. Sloyan Pdf

Investigative reporter Patrick J. Sloyan, a former member of the White House Press Corps, revisits the last years of John F. Kennedy's presidency, his fateful involvement with Diem's assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Civil Rights Movement. Using recently released White House tape recordings and interviews with key inside players, The Politics of Deception reveals: Kennedy's secret behind-the-scenes deals to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis.The overthrow and assassination of President Diem.Kennedy's hostile interactions with and attempts to undermine Martin Luther King, Jr. Kennedy's secret and fascinating dealings with Diem, General Curtis LeMay, King and Fidel Castro. Kennedy's last year in office, and his preparation for the election that never was. The Politics of Deception is a fresh and revealing look at an iconic president and the way he attempted to manage public opinion and forge his legacy, sure to appeal to both history buffs and those who were alive during his presidency.