Arthur M. Schlesinger
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family’s second presidential hopeful.
Schlesinger’s 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. Robert Kennedy and His Times is “a picture of a deeply compassionate
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Series
(Arthur Meier),Age of Roosevelt volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Author
Series
(Arthur Meier),Age of Roosevelt volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam War. Few figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, master of the U.S. Senate in the 1950s and successor to President John F. Kennedy after his assassination. Part of the Kennedy-Johnson administration from 1961 to 1968, political observer Charles Peters offers...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President...
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