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Mutual contempt
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Jeff Shesol |
After the death of John Kennedy, LBJ and RFK were the dominant political figures of the 1960s, each fighting for the spotlight, each struggling to emerge from the other's shadow. Their arguments echo… |
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The death of a president
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William Manchester |
A self-portrait of the successful call -girl business run by a socially prominent young woman in New York which counted among its clients the world's business and political elite. |
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Reaching for glory
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
"Reaching for Glory is a mesmerizing journey into the inner psychological and emotional life of a frightened, lonely, driven, suspicious man. The Johnson of the secret tapes sees hidden enemies all a… |
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The passage of power
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Robert A. Caro |
Continues Johnson's career from the 1960 elections through his vice presidency to the first months of his presidency. |
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The greatest comeback
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Patrick J. Buchanan |
The former Nixon advisor and best-selling author of Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" traces the unanticipated political rise of the 37th President just six years after his gubernatorial l… |
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The revolution of Robert Kennedy
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John R. Bohrer |
On November 22, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother, had been shot. JFK would not survive. In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, journal… |
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Bobby Kennedy
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Matthews, Christopher |
396 pages : 25 cm |
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Delta epiphany
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Ellen B. Meacham |
"In April 1967, Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floo… |
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Chasing shadows
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Ken Hughes |
"This book, based on research on and transcripts of the Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy White House presidential recordings as well as other contemporary sources, reveals for the first time the origins o… |
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For a voice and the vote
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Lisa Anderson Todd |
"During the summer of 1964, more than a thousand individuals descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vote. Student organizers, volunteers, and community mem… |
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Flawed giant
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Robert Dallek |
*Flawed Giant*—the monumental concluding volume to Robert Dallek's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson—provides the most through, engrossing account ever published of Johnson's years in the national s… |
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The long reach of the Sixties
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Laura Kalman |
"Americans often hear that Presidential elections are about "who controls" the Supreme Court. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, eminent legal historian Laura Kalman focuses on the period between 1965… |
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Bobby Kennedy
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Chris Matthews |
601 pages (large print) : 23 cm |
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Reaching for Glory
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Michael R. Beschloss |
Transcribing, editing, and explaining the most powerful moments from hundreds of hours of newly released LBJ tapes, Michael Beschloss has added another lasting treasure to the American historical rec… |
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The Sixties Papers
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Judy Gumbo,Stewart Edward Albert |
The turbulent decade of the 1960s has been analyzed and interpreted by numerous journalists and scholars. The former movement leaders, Judith Albert and Stewart Albert "tell it like it was", presenti… |
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The last campaign
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Thurston Clarke |
After JFK's assassination, Robert Kennedy--Jack's political warrior--almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother's murder, and by the nation's inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, … |
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The liberal hour
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Robert S. Weisbrot,G. Calvin Mackenzie |
In most accounts of the 1960s, Washington is portrayedas a target of reform—a reluctant group of politicianscoaxed into accepting the radical spirit the day demanded. Inthe newest volume in the award… |
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The Path To Power
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Robert A. Caro |
Traces Johnson's life from his Texas childhood through his rise to political power and his successful 1948 senatorial campaign. |
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Legacy of Secrecy
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Lamar Waldron |
Legacy of Secrecy tells the full story of JFK's murder and the tragic results of the cover-ups that followed, as revealed by two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, backed by thousands of fi… |
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Vietnam and the American Political Tradition
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Randall B. Woods |
This volume is intended to demonstrate how opposition to the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergen… |
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