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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Friend of the Arts
Gormley Beatrice
illustrated by Meryl Henderson
2002

One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies - easily read by children of eight and up- today's youngster is swept right into history.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - The Making of a First Lady
Lowe Jacques
1996

This book is Lowe's intimate reminiscence of this extraordinary woman and her husband as they began their march into history - from the lonely, anonymous days on the endless campaign road to the moment  of ultimate victory.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book - A portrait of an American Icon
Tracy Kathleen
2008

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - better known as Jackie O. to the tabloids, "the deb" to the Kennedy Clan and the 35th First Lady to historians - is easily one of the most recognizable presidential wives. She remains the model of the proper American woman. But what was Jackie O. hiding behind those big, dark shades?
From the New York society upbringing to her time in the White House to her days spent as a Doubleday editor, this book is the ultimate biography of a woman everyone recognized but few knew.

Janet & Jackie  [The story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]
Pottker Jan
2001

Despite hundreds of books and thousands of articles on Jackie Kennedy, surprisingly little is known about her mother's role in her life and achievements. Often dismissed as a social climber who faded into the woodwork after she divorced Jackie's father - the dashing, disreputable "Black Jack" Bouvier - and married the rich Hugh D.Auchincloss, Janet not only played a pivotal part in Jackie's own wedding to JFK, but often served as a stand-in for Jackie during the White House years, and helped her cope with John and Caroline after the assassination.
This book explores this fascinating mother-daughter relationship and is filled wit histories that shed new light on the personal life of an American icon.

JFK & Jackie - Unseen Archives

Hill Tim
2003

The President and First Lady were a golden couple, enjoying the kind of celebrity normally reserved for Holliwood stars.  This book charts the rise to power of a political giant. It also recounts the key moments in a marriage which survived betrayal and tragedy. The detailed commentary, together with more than 400 photos, gives a fascinating insight into the public and private faces of JFK and Jackie.

Joan, the Reluctant Kennedy

David Lester
1974

For Joan Bennet Kennedy, debutante and model from an upper-middle-class Bronxville family, life in the Camelot era was glamorous at first, but the glamour soon began wearing thin. Her background, training, and temperament had inadequately prepared her to be a member of the highly competitive Kennedy clan. The tragedies came one after another : the assassinations; Ted's near-fatal airplane crash, and then Chappaquiddick, Joan's crisis point. Lester David writes with sensitivity, insight and sympathy of this young woman, the reluctant Kennedy.

John and Caroline

Spada James
2001

They were the youngest children to live in the White House in over a century - Caroline just 3 and John Jr a newborn when their father took the oath of office.
In this book, we see their adolescence, their sorrows at senseless losses in the family, their first forays into romance, their efforts to establish themselves as responsible adults, their happy marriages and Caroline's motherhood.

Just Friends and Brave Enemies

Kennedy Robert F.
1963

This is a fascinating and often humorous personal story of the Kennedy's trip in February 1962. From tense Berlin, from Tokyo to Djakarta and Bandung in Indonesia, wherever walls of misunderstanding divide to conquer, the vigorous message of the Free World was carried to the hearts and minds of people around the world by Attorney General and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy.

Just Jackie : Her Private Years

Klein Edward
1998

This book is the story of a woman who struggles to recapture her old life with all its power and glory, only to discover that the key to her happiness lies where she least expects it - in the simple pleasures of family, friendship, work and nature.
Edward Klein, a friend of Joaqueline Onassis for many years, takes us behind the public image to give us a story that has never been told before.

Kennedy 5 Giugno 1968 - Quasi una Leggenda

Leonardo Valente
1968

Italian book.
Book about Bobby Kennedy, written few days after his assassination in Los Angeles on June 5,1968.

Kennedy Weddings : A Family Album

Mulvaney Jay
1999

Illustrated book of photographs and memorabilia, "Kennedy Weddings" chronicles three generations of the most famous family in the world on the days when their lives were full of hope, promise, happiness and love.

Kennedy White House : Family Life and Pictures, 1961-63

Sferrazza Anthony Carl
2001

This is the first truly intimate look at Kennedy family life inside the White House. It is an unprecedented visit behind the scenes, revealing the world's most famous family in the world's most famous house.

Kennedys - Stories of Life & Death from an American Family

Willis Clint
2001

The Kennedy family for the past 50 years and more has lived at the intersection of politics, history, sex, fashion, gossip, war, murder and Hollywood - all elements of a good and gripping history. This book collects 21 of the best stories about the Kennedys, told by the finest political writers and social observers of the past half-century.

Kennedys - The complete 8-parts series

DVD
2011

The story of the most fabled political family in American history, told in a manner similar to The Godfather: a manipulative, egocentric father determined to live out his own ambitions through his sons, who in turn spent their lives dancing to his tune while at the same time trying to stand on their own. This is history through personality - the tangled relationships through which paint a picture of one of the most turbulent periods of the modern age. Viewers will be upstairs at the White House, not in the Cabinet Room. Through iconic events in history - the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the mob connection - viewers will learn about the lesser known, yet critical personal stories.

Episode 1 – Joe’s Revenge
The Kennedys rally to put Jack in the White House, but their difficult past illuminates a deeper struggle.
Episode 2 – TBA
The Presidential election comes down to the wire; Bobby tells Joe Sr. he’s leaving politics.
Episode 3 – Us Against Them
When the Bay of Pigs invasion proves disastrous, JFK makes a difficult decision he must later atone for.
Episode 4 – Who’s in Charge Here?
The Russians build a wall separating east and West Berlin, while Bobby prepares to go after Sam Giancana.
Episode 5 – Life Sentences
Riots over desegregation in the South force JFK to act; Jackie's use of amphetamines continues; Joe Sr. suffers a stroke.
Episode 6 – The Brink
The Cuban missile crisis brings America and Russia to the brink of war; Jackie leaves JFK after one infidelity too many.
Episode 7 – Untitled
Jack and Jackie suffer the loss of their newborn child; she and JFK are in Dallas on that fateful day in November.
Episode 8 – How are Things in Glocca Morra?
Bobby blames himself for his brother’s death. Five years later, tragedy strikes again. 

Kick
[The true story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's forgotten sister and the heir to Chatsworth]

Byrne Paula
2016

Everyone, with the exception of her mother, called Kathleen Kennedy, Kick.
The moniker suited her perfectly.
She was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Joack' favourite sister. Spirited vivacious and quick-witted, her charm was legendary and withher jokes, effervescence and ease of manner she became a star among friends, damily and the press.
When Kick sailed to Britain in 1938 after her father had been appointed US Ambassador in London, she was presented at court as a debutante, attended all the best parties and was a house-guest at the finest country estates. She was described as "the best thing America has ever sent us".
She kicked agaist family, faith and country. She was a rebel to the end. This wonderful book restores her story at last with all its energy, wit and tragedy.

La Maledizione dei Kennedy

Klein Edward
2003

Italian translation of the book "The Kennedy Curse".

Les Kennedy

Beugne' Richard
2013

In French.
The name of Kennedy is forever linked to the history of the twentieth century. More than any other, this family has embodied the American dream. But fate has thrown full light seemed to want to punish him for his unabashed success in hitting its most illustrious members of violent death. So the myth "Kennedy" has grown between truths and lies. And so the legend is made of a dynasty both elected and cursed ...

Life with Rose Kennedy

Gibson Barbara,
with Latham Caroline

1986

Barbara Gibson served as Rose Kennedy's personal secretary and close confidante in the 1970's.
This book is an intimate portrait of the Kennedy family by the woman who was Rose's personal secretary and close companion for years. From summers surrounded by grandchildren in Hyannis Port to winters at the Kennedy house in Palm Beach, Barbara Gibson shows the imperial matriarch at the heart of America's most famous family.

Living with the Kennedys - The Joan Kennedy Story

Chellis Marcia
1985

Marcia Chellis, friend, confidante and Joan Kennedy's administrative assistant during Ted Kennedy 1980 campaign, has written the story of this extraordinary woman with candour, compassion and profound insight.
Mona Lisa in Camelot
Davis Margaret Leslie
2008

"How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece charmed and captivated a Nation".
The fascinating true story of  Legend's celebrated visit - and the cultural Ambassador who helped bring her to America.
Sent as a personal loan to the President and Mrs Kennedy by the French government, the famous painting arrived in the States on December 19,1962, where it was exhibited in Washington, D.C., and New York for fifty-two days.

Mrs Kennedy and me
Hill Clint
2012

For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the secrete Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During those four years, he went from being a reluctant guardin to a fircely loyal watchdog and, in many ways, her closest friend.
Now, looking back fifty years, Clint Hill tells his story for the first time, offering a tender, enthralling, and tragic portrayal of how a Secret Service agent who started life in a North Dakota orphanage became the most trusted man in the life of the First Lady who captivated first the nation and then the world.

Mrs Kennedy : the missing history of the Kennedy years
Leaming Barbara
2001

In this landmark work, critically acclaimed biographer Barbara Leaming has written the first full account - poignant and deeply sympathetic- of Jaqueline Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of John F.Kennedy's presidency.

Mutual Contempt
Shesol Jeff
1997

Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Larger-than-life rivalries have always fuelled American public life, but even in this context the visceral antagonism between Johnson and Kennedy was extraordinary - propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views and an abiding animosity. Until 1963 the two men were held in an uneasy truce by their allegiance to John F.Kennedy, but fate and personal ambition would drive them apart, into a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible.
Drawing on previously unexamined recordings and documents, as well as memoirs, biographies and scores of personal interviews, Jeff Shesol weaves the threads of this story into a tight and gripping narrative that reflects the profound impact of this relationship on politics, civil rights, the war on poverty and the war in Vietnam.

My life with Jacqueline Kennedy
Gallagher Mary Barelli
1969

Reading this book in its entirety, one can fully understand the complexities of Jacqueline Kennedy's life and personality.
The author, Mary Gallagher, was uniquely situated to understand the real woman beneath the goddess-figure that the world has made of Jacqueline Kennedy, having been her personal secretary for eight years. She joined her in 1954 shortly after her marriage to Senator John F.Kennedy staying with her through the White House years.

Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes [Robert F.Kennedy's war against organized crime]
Goldfarb Ronald
1995

When the newly elected president John F.Kennedy appointed his younger brother attorney general, there was a firestorm of criticism. Not only was the nepotism blatant, but Robert Kennedy had never tried a case in court. In addition, he was considered ruthless, highly politicized, and intemperate.
Ironically, this young man, widely thought to be unqualified, went on to become one of the most active, effective attorneys general in history.
Goldfarb tells the tale of how, under Kennedy's hands-on direction, law-enforcement agencies came together, pioneering new laws were crafted to fight organized crime and corruption.

President of the Other America
[Robert F.Kennedy & the Politics of Poverty]
Schmitt Edward R.
2010

Robert Kennedy's abbreviated run for the presidency in 1968 has assumed almost mythical proportions in American memory. His campaign has been romanticized because of its tragic end, but also because of the foreign and domestic crises that surrounded it. Yet while most media coverage initially focused on Kennedy's opposition to the Vietnam War as the catalyst of his candidacy, another issue commanded just as much of his attention. That issue was poverty. Stumping across the country, he repeated the same anti-poverty themes before college students in Kansas and Indiana, loggers and women factory workers in Oregon, farmers in Nebraska, and business groups in New York. Although his calls to action sometimes met with apathy, he refused to modify his message. "if they don't care" he told one aide "the hell with them".

Questions of Controversy : The Kennedy Brothers
Ayton Mel
2001

Intense controversy surrounds the lives of the Kennedy brothers : John, Robert and Edward Kennedy have all been the subject of close scrutiny for the latter part of the 20th century.
Based on his meticulous research, Mel Ayton attempts to sort fact from the fiction and to establish the truth about the three Kennedy brothers.

R.F.K. - A Photographer's Journal
Benson Harry
2008

As a friend, advisor and attorney general to his brother, John F.Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy stood at the heart of Washington politics.
Harry Benson's images capture unprecedented intimate family outings and outdoor adventures with friends alongside every moment of Kennedy's brief but unforgettable. presidential run, from his announcement of his candidacy on St Patrick's day,1968 and the fervour and excitement of his days on the campaign trail, and all the way through his shocking assassination in Los Angeles and the long funeral procession to Arlington Cemetery.

RFK - Collected Speeches
Edwin O.Guthman & C.Richard Allen
1993

Robert Kennedy died from an assassin's bullet on June 6,1968.
In 1993, commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of that tragedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edwin O.Guthman, a confidant of RFK's, and C.Richard Allen  assembled a moving and eloquent volume of his speeches.

RFK - His Life and Death
Jacobs Jay
1968

Book written just after Robert Kennedy's assassination. It is a brief history of his life by Jay Jacobs, with an eyewitness account of the last 36 hrs by Kristi N. Witker.

RFK Must Die
[The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy]
O'Sullivan Shane
DVD
2008

"RFK Must Die : the Assassination of Bobby Kennedy" is a new investigative documentary by Shane O'Sullivan, author of "Who killed Bobby?", that examins the events of that night and presents compelling evidence that Sirhan did not act alone.  Witnesses placed Sirhan several feet in front of Kennedy yet the fatal shot came from one inch behind. And even under hypnosis, Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting.
Leading psychiatrists believe he was a "Manchurian Candidate", hypnotically programmed to kill Kennedy or act as a decoy for the real assassin.

Robert F.Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary
Boomhower Ray E.
2008

Marking the 40th anniversary of Kennedy's Indianapolis speech, this books explains what brought the politician to Indiana that day, and explore the characters and events of the 1968 Indiana Democratic presidential primary in which Kennedy, who was an underdog, had a decisive victory.

Robert Kennedy - Brother Protector
Hilty James W.
1997

James Hilty offers an important new study of RFK as lifelong defender and promoter of his brother, President John Kennedy. This fascinating perceptive biography reveals a man struggling in his brother's shadow as he strives to confirm his own individuality as campaign manager, attorney general, and younger brother/confidant.

Robert Kennedy - His life
Thomas Evan
2000

Evan Thomas shows RFK as a human being, to bring to life an extraordinarily complex man who was at once kind and cruel, devious and honest, fearful and brave.
Thomas has unusual access to his subject's life. He is the first biographer since A.Schlesinger to see RFK's private papers, and he interviewed all of Kennedy's closest aides and advisers.

Robert Kennedy and his times
Schlesinger Arthur M.Jr
1978

Arthur Schlesinger chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful. His account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s.

Rose
Higham Charles
1995

Drawing on hundreds of recently declassified documents and with the cooperation of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's relatives, among others, NYT bestselling author Charles Higham chronicles the life of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in this dramatic, moving biography. During her times of glory, agony and ecstasy, Rose gave birth to nine children and to an unforgettable vision of the American Dream.

Senatorial Privilege - The Chappaquiddick Cover-up
Damore Leo
1988

Leo Damore has obtained confidential documents, interviewed investigators and finally persuaded a key witness to talk. This book is fascinating for its wealth of detail. Here, for the first time, is the whole truth about Chappaquiddick : the real events of that dark, muggy summer night - and the shocking cover-up that wealth and power wrought.

Shadow Play : the Murder of Robert Kennedy, the Trial of Shiran Shiran and the failure of American Justice
Klaber William & Melanson Philip H.
1997

This book is a new exploration of the murder of Robert F.Kennedy and a critique of U.S: justice system. Investigative journalist William Klaber and political science professor Philip Melanson have spent six years examining the crime. After poring over previously secret LAPD and FBI files, interviewing scores of witnesses and investigators, and talking with Sirhan in prison, they conclude that Sirhan may not have acted alone and that police investigation and courtroom defence were deeply flawed.

Sogno cose che non sono state mai
[Discorsi 1964-1968]
Kennedy Robert F.
2012

Italian book.
Collection of Robert F.Kennedy's speeches from 1964 to 1968.

Sons and Brothers : The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
Mahoney Richard D.
1999

This book gives us a portrait of the family that has haunted the American imagination for forty years.
It explores the bond between Jack and Bobby and the part it played in their rise and fall.

Sons of Camelot
[The Fate of an American Dinasty]
Leamer Laurence
2004

"Sons of Camelot" is the compelling story of the Kennedy sons and grandsons in the aftermath of the assassination of President john F.Kennedy.
It is the mot intimate biography ever written about the Kennedys, with the cooperation of family and friends at a moment when they are ready to talk with insight and depth about their lives. Among the many stunning portraits in the book is the definitive account of John F.Kennedy Jr's life, including interviews with his ten closest friends, none of whom has ever talked to an author before.
Based on five years of rigorous research and unprecedented cooperation from the five surviving sons of Robert Kennedy , the four Shriver sons, Maria Shriver, and other Kennedys, "Sons of Camelot" is not only the most authoritative account,  it is by far the most revealing book ever writtem about these lives.
Falling far short of teh great ambitions their patriarch, Joseph P.Kennedy, envisioned for his family, the lives of his youthful progeny are instead characterized by overwhelming drama full of exalted aspirations, notable achievements, and the most spectacular mishaps, excesses and tragedies.

Sweet Caroline
Andersen Christopher
2003

The sole surviving member of Camelot's first family, Caroline Kennedy, has remained largely a mistery till now. In this book Christopher Andersen draws on important sources - many speaking here for the first time- to provide a full, compelling portrait of Caroline, the young wife and mother left to carry on in her legendary family's name.

Ted Kennedy - An American Icon
[A tribute to the Lion of the Senate]
USA TODAY
2009

This book features a collection of stories and photos of Ted Kennedy from the pages of USA TODAY and other Gannett newspapers. The stories are grouped into categories covering different eras of the late Senator's remarkable life and career.

Ted Kennedy - Scenes from an epic life
The Boston Globe
2009

In this unique collection, archival materials and fresh interviews combine to create a richly detailed portrait of the man known to many as Uncle Ted. Vibrant photographs, most never before published in book form (and many unseen for decades), as well as essays and quotations illustrate the man and the statesman from a perspective that is both intimate and objective.

Ted Kennedy - The dream that never died
Klein Edward
2009

For most of his life, Ted Kennedy played a kaleidoscope of roles - from destructive thrill seeker to constructive lawmaker; from straying husband to devoted father and uncle.
In this book "Ted Kennedy - The dream that never died", celebrated Kennedy biographer Edward Klein at last reconciles these contradictions, painting a stunningly original, up-to-the-moment portrait of Ted Kennedy and his remarkable late-in-life redemption.
Drawing on a vast store of original research and unprecedented access to Ted Kennedy's political associates, friends and family, Klein takes the reader behind the scenes to reveal many secrets.

Ted Kennedy - Triumphs and Tragedies
David Lester
1975

Here is a straightforward look, written in 1975, at one of the most controversial figure in American politics in that period, when Ted Kennedy was still hoping to become a President of United States.

The Classic Album of the Kennedy Family
Shaw Mark
2000

Wonderful Photo album of Kennedy family!

The eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Adler Bill
2004

Forty years ago, when the nation was coming out from under a period of mourning, Bill Adler edited "The Kennedy Wit" and in so doing helped the world remember a man and a president, not just a sorrowful event. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's death, he has edited yet another book of quotas celebrating life - this time the life of Jackie.
The accompanying DVD documentary is considered by many to be the definitive film biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and was produced by CBS News Production for Arts&Entertainment Network.

The Enemy Within
Kennedy Robert F.
1960

This book is a report on the work of the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labour or Management Field, highlighting some of the typical problems and abuses that were discovered. It is based on the record of the investigations conducted by the Committee's professional staff, the sworn testimony taken before the Committee, and the official reports of the Committee to the United States Senate.
"Mr Kennedy exposed himself and his family to terrible danger for three years... an example of courage that calls for more imitation if we are to delay any surrender to the mob" [New York Times]

The Final Hour - The JFK Jr Tragedy
Pecker Albert
2003

This book attempts to illustrate what the final hour of JFK Jr may have been like through recalling the exciting flying experience of a less prominent private pilot, with some 20 plus years of flying experience. This book should answer many of the questions about what happened that tragic night.

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