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11.22.63

King Stephen
2011

Novel.
Jake Epping is an English teacher in Lisbon Falls,Maine, who makes extra money teaching in an adult education programme.
One day, he receives an essay from one of his students - a harrowing first person story about the night, fifty years earlier, when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed Harry's mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer.
Later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges an extraordinary secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane - an insanely possible - mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
Inspired by his desire to put things right for Harry Dunning, Jake leaves a world of iPods and mobile phones for a new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars, root beers and Lindy Hopping. It is a haunting world of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
With extraordinary imaginative power, King explores the culture of the era and weaves it into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense. 
11.22.63 is a love story, a tribute to a simpler time and place and a heartstopping "What if" tour de force the like of which no-one has ever read.

22/11/63

King Stephen
2011

Novel.
Italian version of Stephen King's book "11.22.63".

A prova di errore

Burdick Eugene & Wheeler Harvey
1968

Italian version (1968) of the novel "Fail-Safe"(1962).
On the cover of 1968 Italian edition :"il romanzo che non aveva previsto la morte di John F.Kennedy ma quella di Jacqueline".
Fail-Safe is a best-selling novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The story was initially serialized in three installments in the Saturday Evening Post on October 13, 20, and 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The popular and critically acclaimed novel, released in late October 1962, was then adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, and Walter Matthau. In 2000, the novel was adapted again for a televised play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS. All three works have the same theme—accidental nuclear war—with the same plot.

A Time to Heal [Autobiography of Gerald R.Ford]

Ford Gerald R.
1979

This book is at once the autobiography of a political career and the human story of a dedicated but unassuming man propelled by history into taking on the immense burdens of the Presidency. This is a refreshingly unpretentious yet vivid book. Jerry Ford simply tells it as it was : the journey from modest Midwestern beginnings to the White House - the tough choices, the personal sacrifices, the joys of success, the mistakes, the rousing partisan battles, the moments of terror during attempted assassinations, the times of fear when his beloved wife faced cancer.

A Very Private Woman
[The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer]

Burleigh Nina
1999

In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F.Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.

Ambassador's Journal

Galbraith John Kenneth
1969

A few days after the election in 1960, President Kennedy called Mr Galbraith to tell him he was to be his Ambassador to India. As he tells in the book, Mr Galbraith decided that it would be an interesting time and resolved to keep a journal. So he did and this is it. Never before has there been such an expert account of exactly what an American ambassador does.
His diary will be counted one of the most important, certainly one of the most readable, of the books on the Kennedy years.

American Tabloid

Ellroy James
2001

Italian version (2001).
American Tabloid
is a 1995 novel by James Ellroy. The novel chronicles three rogue American law enforcement officers from November 22, 1958 through November 22, 1963. Each becomes entangled in a web of interconnecting associations between the FBI, CIA, and the Mafia, which eventually leads to their involvement in the John F. Kennedy assassination. James Ellroy dedicated American Tabloid "To NAT SOBEL."
American Tabloid was Time's Best Book (Fiction) for 1995.It is the first novel of the Underworld USA Trilogy, followed by The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover.

ARI - The life and times of Aristotle Onassis

Evans Peter
1986

The Greek Tycoon. The Lover. The Legend. Here is the real Aristotle Onassis, the man behind the world's most publicized dynasty. Based on actual interviews with the "Golden Greek" himself... as well as those who knew, loved and feared him... ARI is the definitive portrait of one of the most ruthless, powerful and passionate men of all time.

Arlington National Cemetery

Dieterle Lorraine Jacyno
2001

This book is a memorial to America's heroes and heroines, those who sacrificed their lives for our country or contributes to its enduring history. The 140 colour photographs are a visual memento of all that Arlington has to offer, from the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns to the commemorative ceremonies. JFK tomb is at Arlington.

As I saw it

Rusk Dean
1990

Rusk's government career spanned the birth of the United Nations, the creation of Israel, the Korean War. As Secretary of State to John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he was a key figure in the Bay of Pigs decision, the Cuban missile crisis, the erection of the Berlin Wall and, most overwhelmingly, the Vietnam War. In this autobiography, that grew out of a father-son relationship strained by profound disagreement over that war, Rusk reveals the inner workings of his public life.

Billie Sol "The Man who knows who shot JFK"

Estes Pam
2004

Pam Estes, Billie Sol's daughter, tells the story of his troubles and triumphs as a participant.
A child when the first scandal broke in the early sixties, she was too young to understand what was happening to her family.
An adult when the government pursued her father during his parole period, she and other members of her family were threatened with indictment for allegedly helping him elude his federal investigations.
Read the Epilogue for daddy's conclusions about who shot JFK.

Campaigning & The Presidency 1892-1974

 

The Campaigns & Campaigners for The Nation's Highest Office and the crucial decisions they made that changed the course of U.S. & World History.
10 1/2 Hrs Packed into 155 MP3s on 1 CD.

Candidate Images in Presidential Elections

Hacker Kenneth L.
1995

This books presents a compendium of up-to-date theory and research on image-making in U.S. Presidential elections. The contributors to the work, among the best-known in the field of political communication, describe  and explain how presidential election results hinge on voter perceptions of the candidates and how candidates seek to project the images through to attract votes.

CIA targets Fidel

CIA
1996

Declassified in 1994, this secret report was prepared in 1967 for the CIA on its own plots to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro. Under pressure in 1967 when the press were probing the alliance with the Mafia in these murderous schemes, the CIA produced this remarkably frank, single copy report stamped "secret- eyes only".
Included in the book is an exclusive commentary by Division General Fabian Escalante, the former head of Cuba's counterintelligence body.

Counselor

Sorensen Ted
2008

In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.
 

Da Kennedy a Watergate
[Quindici anni di vita americana]

Colombo Furio
1974

Italian book.
 Fifteen years of American history, from 1960 to 1974, as seen by famous Italian journalist Furio Colombo.

Dallas - Then and Now

Fitzgerald Ken
2001

It would be a travesty if Dallas were only ever remembered in conjunction with a single vile moment in American history that transpired on November 22,1963 , resulting in the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. Instead it should be remembered for the determination and perseverance of those who have fought and labored to build a city of over one million people. Chosen from over one million early photographs catalogued by the Dallas Library, the images included in this book illustrate how a modern city grew from a single log cabin.

Dallas, 22 Novembre 1963

Braver Adam
2008

Italian version of the book "November 22, 1963: A Novel" by Adam Graver.
This novel chronicles the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination and explores the intersection of stories and memories and how they represent and mythologize that defining moment in history. Jackie's story is interwoven with the stories of real people intimately connected with that day: a man who shares cigarettes with Jackie outside the trauma room; a motorcycle policeman flanking the motorcade; Abe Zapruder, who caught the assassination on film; the White House servants waiting for Jackie to return; and the morticians overseeing President Kennedy’s autopsy.

Dealey Plaza

Abbott Arlinda
2003

Long before Nov.22,1963 the Dealey Plaza site was an important Dallas landmark. It was at this location in 1841 that John Neely Bryan founded what would become the city of Dallas. This book covers the story of this place.

Dearest Madame

Irma Hunt
1978

U.S. Presidents have always been human, and even in the days  when women's public influence was limited, their private influence was, as it is now, equal to men. In this book there is the story of seven women who were loved by- but not married to- seven American Presidents (G.Washington, T.Jefferson, G.Cleveland, W.Harding, F.D.Roosevelt, H.Eisenhower and J.F.Kennedy).

Decision-Making in the WHite House

 Theodore C. Sorensen
19
63

Theodore C. Sorensen was Special Counsel to the President of the United States. He first joined the staff of the then Senator John F. Kennedy upon the latter's entry to the Senate in January,1953. He was names one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year in 1961 by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce.
This book is based on the Gino Speranza Lectures for 1963, delivered at Columbia University on April 18 and May 19, 1963.

Dialoghi della Nuova Frontiera

Luigi Preti
1970

In Italian.
"Dialoghi della Nuova Frontiera" is a theatrical script about John Kennedy and his "New Frontier", written in 1970 from Luigi Preti (1914-2009), historical leader of PSDI (Social Democratic Italian party) , a member of the Constituent Assembly and more  times minister in Italian government.
The term New Frontier was used by liberal, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. The phrase developed into a label for his administration's domestic and foreign programs.

Dr. Feelgood

Richard A. Lertzman & William J.Birnes
2013

The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures.

Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named “Dr. Feelgood,” developed a unique “energy formula” that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis. JFK received his first injection (a special mix of “vitamins and hormones,” according to Jacobson) just before his first debate with Vice President Richard Nixon. The shot into JFK’s throat not only cured his laryngitis, but also diminished the pain in his back, allowed him to stand up straighter, and invigorated the tired candidate. Kennedy demolished Nixon in that first debate and turned a tide of skepticism about Kennedy into an audience that appreciated his energy and crispness. What JFK didn’t know then was that the injections were actually powerful doses of a combination of highly addictive liquid methamphetamine and steroids.

Author and researcher Rick Lertzman and New York Times bestselling author Bill Birnes reveal heretofore unpublished material about the mysterious Dr. Feelgood. Through well-researched prose and interviews with celebrities including George Clooney, Jerry Lewis, Yogi Berra, and Sid Caesar, the authors reveal Jacobson’s vast influence on events such as the assassination of JFK, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy-Khrushchev Vienna Summit, the murder of Marilyn Monroe, the filming of the C. B. DeMille classic The Ten Commandments, and the work of many of the great artists of that era. Jacobson destroyed the lives of several famous patients in the entertainment industry and accidentally killed his own wife, Nina, with an overdose of his formula.
 

Executive action

Donald Freed & Mark Lane
1973

Novel written by Donald Freed and Mark Lane.
Written in the form of novel, it details the three months leading up to the JFK Assissination, and describes a high-level conspiracy involving Texas oil interests, the Military and Intelligence agencies, and incorporates Lane's own research as well as elements from Jim Garrison's New Orleans investigation of the Assassination and the plot outlined in the book "Farewell America."
It details a trained assissination team supervised by a "technician" who is overseen by a CIA case officer who reports to high ranking Intelligence officer. The novel also includes an Oswald impersonator and is well-written using a series of scenes by dates, as if it were a play or screen-play.

Frame 232

Wil Mara
2013

Novel written by Wil Mara.
"On Nov.22,1963 President John F.Kennedy was assassinated. In the years since, several photos have been discovered that show a woman standing not more than thirty feet feom the President's limousine, holding what appears to be a video camera. Thi woman has since become known as "the Babushka Lady". Yet her true identity, her camera and the footage she shot have never been found.
What if...half a century later, her film surfaced.. and it contained the final piece of evidence needed to solve the greatest crime of the twentieth century?"

Ho ammazzato JFK

Manuel   Vasquez Montalban
1972

Novel written by Manuel Montalban in 1970.
This book is an almost experimental and visionary novel.
Italian version.

 

I Grandi Discorsi che hanno cambiato la Storia

Gianluca Lioni & Michele Fina
2018

Book in Italian.

This book brings together in an ambitious and never banal way 100 great speeches, and reveals techniques of persuasion that are always current, even in the era of tweets. Among the 100 speeches there is a speech by John F. Kennedy (Berlin, June 26, 1963), one by Martin Luther King (Washington, August 28, 1963) and one by Robert F. Kennedy (Kansas, March 18, 1968).

I Grandi Enigmi della Guerra Fredda

Bernard Michal
1969

Book, in Italian, about 5 big mysteries of Cold War :
1. Otto John, due volte transfuga, è un traditore?
2. L'aereo che ha fatto fallire la conferenza al vertice
3. Il poker atomico di Cuba  (Cuba atomic poker)
4. Chi ha assassinato i fratelli Ngo?
5. Gli spari di Dallas  (Dallas shots)

I have a dream
 
[Writings and Speeches that changed the world]

Martin Luther King Jr
1992

On August 28,1963 Martin luther King Jr stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words "I have a dream...". It was a speech that changed the course of history.
This anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr's courageous dream and his immeasurable contribution by presenting his most memorable words in a concise and convenient edition.
As Coretta Scott King says in her foreword "This collection includes many of what I consider to be my husband's most important writings and orations".

I have a dream
 
[L'autobiografia del profeta dell'uguaglianza]

Martin Luther King Jr
2001

Italian version.
Ideal Autobiography of Martin Luther King, through a collection of his writings and speeches, collected and edited from Clayborne Carson, founder and director of the Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute.

I Love Music - 1960-64

AA.VV.
3CD Box

3CD Box with the  music of the Kennedy Presidency years- 1960-64
Johnny Kidd&the Pirates-The Shadows- The SWinging Blue Jeans- The Searchers- Gerry&the PAcemakers- Manfred Mann- Helen Shapiro- Cilla Black-Cliff Richard and many more

 

I Padroni del Mondo - America

Biagi Enzo
1995

In Italian.
Very interesting book written from one of the best Italian journalists, Enzo Biagi, about his travels in USA and his interviews.
In the cover a photo of President John F.Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline.

 

I, JFK

Mayer Robert
1989

A spirited novel written by Robert Mayer.

"Dictating from heaven, JFK tells his story...a piece of celestial kiss and tell!".

 

Il quarto sparo

Bruzzone Natalino
1993

In Italian.
A n
ovel written by Natalino Bruzzone, around JFK Assassination and implications on White House in 1997.

 

Il successore

Burdick Eugene
1964

IL SUCCESSORE is the Italian version of the book "The 480", a political fiction novel by Eugene Burdick (1964).

The plot evolves around the political turmoil after John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963. In the novel, a fictitious charismatic character, John Thatch, an engineer, is seeking nomination for the Republican Party candidate at 1964 presidential elections. He is described as being contaminated with the "political virus". A handful of political professionals is promoting his nomination, in confrontation with the Party establishment. There exist apparent parallels between Thatch and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a write-in hero at New Hampshire primary.
The novel criticizes the socio-political effects on society at large from the use of computers to run massive simulations, which predict the public reaction to certain (proposed) political moves before implementing them. Such simulations make it easy to manipulate the public consciousness.
The 480 in the title denotes the number of groups (by party affiliation, socioeconomic status, location, origin, etc.) that the computer simulation uses to classify the American electorate. The full list of these is reproduced in the Appendix, claimed by the author to be the true list used by the Simulmatics Corporation (real name) in Senator John F. Kennedy's Presidential campaign in 1960.
The Simulmatics Corporation was created by MIT Professor Ithiel de Sola Pool, who provided a non-fiction backup to "The 480" in "Candidates, Issues, and Strategies: A Computer Simulation of the 1960 Presidential Election," MIT Press, 1964 (with co-authors Robert P. Abelson and Samuel L. Popkin). They built their model from 130,000 archived interviews in Gallup and Roper polls over a ten-year period. Based on its output, they advised Kennedy that he would benefit from a strong civil rights stand and that he had nothing to lose, and much to gain, by attacking religious bigotry and dealing frankly with his Catholicism.

In His Steps
[Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique]

Paul R.Henggeler
1991

In the White House, Lyndon Johnson was haunted by the myth of Camelot. In this intimate personal and political history based on exhaustive new research, Paul Henggeler chronicles Johnson's frustrating struggle with John and Robert Kennedy.
LBJ saw in them both opportunities and threats. Towards John he felt affection and respect, and he often drew upon the "Kennedy legacy" in his conduct of the presidency, recognizing its immense political value. But Johnson feared Robert Kennedy as the living embodiment of that legacy and as a man who was determined to dethrone him.
Drawing upon thousands of fresh documents as well as published sources, Paul Henggeler has constructed a fascinating and revealing account of personalities and politics which crippled the Johnson presidency and produced dramatic upheaval at the highest level of government.

In History's Shadow - An American Odyssey

Connally John
1993

In June 1993, John Connally, a legend in Texas and a powerful figure in national politics for several crucial decades of XX century, died of complications of pulmonary fibrosis, a condition brought on by wounds sustained from an assassin's bullet that fateful day in Dallas - November 22,1963. This book, finished right before Connally's death, is the story of his life in politics, a life of almost Shakespearean range, marked by great triumphs as well as personal tragedy and heartbreak.

In the President's Secret Service

Kessler Ronald
2009

Because Secret Service agents are sworn to secrecy, the American public rarely knows what presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, and cabinet officers and their families are really like.
If they did, says a former Secret Service agent, "They would scream".

Interview with the Assassin

Levien David & Koppelman Brian
DVD

Movie.
Almost forty years after John F.Kennedy's assassination an ex-Marine named Walter Ohlinger has come forward with a startling claim : "I was in Dallas November 22,1963. Does that mean anything to you? I've never told anyone this before : no one knows. I was the second gunman behind the stockade fence on what they call the grassy knoll. I fired one shot from there".

It rained in Dallas

Rienzi Robert
2002

This is a work of fiction, about the assassination of JFK in Dallas.
 

JFK and Art

Silver Kenneth E.
2003

This book examines how American and European artists, including such twentieth-century icons as Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Norman Rockwell and others helped to shape the Kennedy legend and legacy. Published to accompany a ground-breaking exhibition of paintings, sculptures and photographs originated by the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, the book includes an essay by the highly regarded art historian Dr Kenneth Silver.

JFK and his family - Paper Dolls in Full Colour

Tierney Tom
1990

In his skilful rendering of President John F.Kennedy and his family, noted paper doll artist and illustrator Tom Tierney touchingly recaptures a few public and private moments in this immensely popular family's life. Six dolls representing President, his wife Jacqueline and two likenesses each of Caroline and John,Jr are accompanied by 34 full-colour costumes- including formal, informal, and everyday suits for the President, elegant evening wear for the First Lay; and casual wear for the children.

JFK and Mary Meyer. A Love Story.

Kornbluth Jesse
2020

A Novel.
John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache. In the White House, he never had a headache. Kennedy met Mary Pinchot in 1935, when he was eighteen and she was sixteen. Twenty years later, when she was living in Virginia and married to Cord Meyer, a high-ranking CIA official, she was Jack and Jackie Kennedy’s next-door neighbor. In 1962, she was an artist, divorced, living in Washington—and Kennedy’s first serious romance. Mary Pinchot Meyer was more than a bedmate. She was Kennedy’s beacon light: his sole female adviser, spending mornings in the Oval Office, and, at night, discussing issues. After the 1964 election, Kennedy said, he would divorce Jackie and marry her.

After the assassination, Mary didn’t believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and she shared that view, loudly and often, in Washington’s most elite circles. Her ex-husband urged her to be silent, but when the report of the Warren Commission was released, she was even more loudly critical.

On October 10, 1964, two days before her forty-forth birthday, as she walked in Georgetown, a man shot her in the head and the heart. That night, Mary's best friend called her sister. “Mary had a diary,” she said. “Get it.”

The diary was filled with sketches, notes for paintings—and ten pages about an affair with an unnamed lover. Her sister burned it. In JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story, Jesse Kornbluth recreates the diary Mary might have written. Working from a timeline of Kennedy’s presidency and every documented account of their public relationship, he has written a high-octane thriller that tracks this secret, doomed romance—and invites readers to solve Mary’s murder.

JFK Memorial - Dallas

AA.VV.
 2000

The assassination of President JFK is the most significant event in the history of Dallas,Texas. This horrible, shocking occurrence on November 22,1963 changed Dallas- and the world - forever.
The Kennedy Memorial, which was dedicated on June 24,1970 to honor the fallen President, is an integral part of the city's urban landscape and cultural heritage.
This booklet tells the history of the monument, from design to its restoration in 2000.

 

JFK - Original Soundtrack

Williams John
 CD

Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "JFK" by Oliver Stone.
Music composed, conducted and produced by John W
illiams.
1.Prologue
2. The Motorcade
3.Drummers' salute
4.Theme from JFK
5. Eternal father, strong to save
6. Garrisons obsession
7. On the sunny side of the street
8. The conspirators
9. The death of David Ferrie
10. Maybe September
11. Garrison family theme
12. Ode to Buckwheat
13. El Watusi
14. The witnesses
15. Concert #2 for horn and orchestra
16. Arlington
17. Finale
18. Theme from JFK

John F.Kennedy Sites in Dallas-Fort Worth

Doty Mark and Slate John H.
2010

November 22,1963 is a date that will forever live in the minds and hearts of those who were witness to or touched by the assassination of President John F.Kennedy in Dealey plaza.
Surprisingly, the majority of sites associated with events surrounding that day still stand along the streets and in the neighborhoods of th greater Dallas-Fort Worth region.
From Fort Worth's Hotel Texas to the Texas Theater and the Old Municipal Building in Dallas, this book explores and cocuments the buildings, neighborhoods and places with a direct connection to the assassination and its figures, both major and minor, in one of the darkest chapters in American and Texas history.
The historic images in this volume camefrom the collections of the Dallas Municipal Archives, "Dallas Morning News" and other sources.

JOURNALS 1952-2000

Schlesinger Artur M., Jr
2007

A landmark publication in the history of American letters and a unique opportunity to celebrate the legacy of one of the great public intellectuals of our time.

For more than a half century, Arthur Schlesinger Jr was at the vital center of American political and cultural life.
From his entrance in political leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy White House and up until his very last days, he was that rare thing, a master historian who enjoyed an extraordinary eyewitness vantage on history as it was being made.
For most of his adult life, Arthur Schlesinger Jr dutifully recorded his experience and opinions in journals that, before this book, had never been seen. Edited by his oldest sons, they offer remarkably fresh and lucid observations on a half century of public life, and a rare and privileged view into the mind of one of America's most distinguished men of letters.

Kennedy's Ghost

Stevens Gordon
1994

Novel.
This is not 22 November 1963, but now. This is Kennedy's Ghost, a nerve-shredding thriller of kidnap, conspiracy and assassination.

Kick Kennedy's Secret Diary

Braudy Susan
2018

Historical fiction diary.
At the dawn of the Blitz, American Ambassador Joseph Kennedy rushes his family from England back home to Bronxville - but his beautiful rebellious daughter Kathleen ("Kick") has bigger plans. Ignoring air raids and family banishment Kick returns to her forbidden sweetheart in London.
Everybody adored fun-loving Kick Kennedy except her cold mother Rose who loved being very-rich and very-Catholic and the Ambassador's wife. Kick Kennedy's Secret Diary is an intimate peek behind the spurious facade of America's royal family. This historical fiction diary is the whirlwind story of JFK's little sister and favorite person-- she's a bobby dazzler with an awesome trail of swooning British suitors.
Ambitious and daring and the star of every party, Kick earns the nickname la petite questionneuse for asking many many questions, such as "Will God desert me if I marry a good Anglican?" Ever pushing boundaries Kick struggles to balance her strong faith and family loyalty with a marriage proposal from the Anglican and kind William Cavendish, heir to the most powerful duchy in England. As his wife, Kick would one day be second only to the Queen herself.
Kick and her beloved Billy-o marry knowing she may alienate her family forever. But when her loyal husband of two weeks disappears on the battlefield, Kick struggles to make a life for herself alone in London where sexual awakening lurks.
Praised by author Michael Wolff (Fire and Fury) for exhibiting the "literary charm of Penelope Lively" and the "romantic fervor of Barbara Cartland," Kick Kennedy's Secret Diary is damn good fun. Readers will love Kick's cheeky adventures with Winston Churchill, Aly Khan and the ribald Pamela Digby Churchill.
Caught between her father's political ambitions and her mother's rejecting jealousy, Kick's defiance is a treat for lovers of historical fiction: her struggles to be her own person inspire.

Killing the Dream

Posner Gerald
1998

James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Marthin Luther King, Jr.
After thirty years, this book re-examines the assassination of Marthin Luther King,Jr, based on explosive new interviews, confidential files, and previously undisclosed evidence. It not only uncovers the errors of previous investigations -both private and governmental- but resolves the speculation about whether the FBI, CIA or Mafia was involved in the death of Dr. King.

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