John Fitzgerald Kennedy And His Times: 20th Century America and The World in the Early 1960s
BOOKS FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADES AND BEYOND
JFK PRESIDENCY / JFK BIOGRAPHY
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot The Dream That Will Not Die: by Bill O’Reilly Inspiring Words of John, 9780805096668 HC Robert, and Edward Kennedy $28.00 by Brian M. Thomsen 9780765328403 TP $17.99
The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in The words of three powerful brothers—men united gripping detail the brutal murder of John not just by family ties but by a tradition of inspiring Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how a sequence of service that continues today with their children and gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a grandchildren. Words which have united a nation, beloved president but also sent the nation into inspired generations to take up the very best and the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War most honorable of causes, and pushed individuals and its culture-changing aftermath. to do and be and give their best.
The Letters of John F. Kennedy Dear Mrs. Kennedy edited by Martin Sandler by Jay Mulvaney 9781608192717 HC (Pub: 10/29/13) 9780312386153 HC $30.00 $19.99
Drawn from more than two million letters on file at From the bestselling author of Kennedy Weddings and Diana and Jackie comes a the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum-- many never before published--this project presents powerful and moving collection of the condolence letters Jacqueline Kennedy readers with a portrait of both Kennedy the received after the assassination of John F. politician and Kennedy the man, as well as the times Kennedy he lived in.
John F. Kennedy: The The Kennedy Half-Century by Larry J. Sabato American Presidents Series 978-1620402801 HC (Pub: 10/22/13) by Alan Brinkley $28.00 9780805083491 HC $23.00
The young president who brought vigor and glamour to An original and illuminating narrative revealing the White House while he confronted cold war crises John F. Kennedy’s lasting influence on America, abroad and calls for social change at home. Brinkley gives us a full picture of the man, his times, and his by the acclaimed political analyst Larry J. Sabato. enduring legacy.
Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the Kennedys By Kitty Kelley 9780312643423 HC $29.99
Accompanied by an insightful, heartwarming essay from Kitty Kelley--Tretick's close friend--about the relationship between the photographer and
JFK, Capturing Camelot includes some of the most memorable images of America's Camelot and brings to life the uniquely hopeful historical era from which it emerged.
MUSIC AND ART / POP CULTURE OF THE 1960s
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions by Leslie Woodhead by Clinton Heylin 9781608196142 HC 9780312150679 TP $26.00 $17.99
The improbable, irresistible story of how the Clinton Heylin has devoted his career to Bob music of the Beatles helped bring down the Dylan's work and presents here a Soviet Union—plus eight never-before-seen comprehensive study of all of Dylan's photos of the Beatles from 1963. recording sessions.
When We Get to Surf City: A Magical Mystery Tours: My Journey Through America in Life with the Beatles Pursuit of Rock and Roll, by Tony Bramwell with Friendship, and Dreams
by Bob Greene Rosemary Kingsland 9780312376918 TP 9780312330446 TP $18.99 $18.99
Bob Greene has stepped into a universe that is hiding in Bramwell’s story has been sought after for years, plain sight: the touring world of the great early rock and now, here it is, full of untold stories and bands who gave America the car-radio-and-jukebox detailing with an insider's shrewd eye the Apple music it still loves best. empire's incomparable rise, Brian Epstein's frolics, Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, Phil Spector's eccentric behavior, and new stories about Yoko Ono, the Stones, and the life--his life.
The Wrecking Crew: The The Sixties Inside Story of Rock and Roll's by Jenny Diski Best-Kept Secret 9780312427214 TP by Kent Hartman $14.00 9780312619749 HC $25.99 9781250030467 TP $15.99
Mining invaluable interviews, the author follows the A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging careers of such session masters as drummer Hal Blaine London, Jenny Diski offers radical and keyboardist Larry Knechtel, as well as trailblazing reconsiderations of the social, political, and bassist Carol Kaye—the only female in the bunch—who personal meaning of that turbulent era. went on to play in thousands of recording sessions in this rock history. HISTORY / POLITICS IN THE KENNEDY ERA
America's Rasputin: Walt Lyndon Johnson's War: Rostow and the Vietnam War America's Cold War Crusade in by David Milne Vietnam, 1945-1968 9780374531621 TP by Michael H. Hunt $22.00 9780809016044 TP $14.00
David Milne examines one man’s impact on the United Using newly available documents from both States’ worst-ever military defeat. It is a portrait of American and Vietnamese archives, Hunt good intentions and fatal misjudgments. A true reinterprets the values, choices, ideologue, Rostow believed that it is beholden upon the misconceptions, and miscalculations that United States to democratize other nations and do shaped the long process of American “good,” no matter what the cost. America’s Rasputin intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders explores the consequences of this idealistic but more comprehensible--if no less troubling--the unyielding dogma. tangled origins of the war.
Dirty Little Secrets of the Kill Anything That Moves: Vietnam War The Real American War in by James F. Dunnigan Vietnam 9780312252823 TP by Nick Turse $19.99 9780805086911 HC $30.00
Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to Drawing on more than a decade of research in see what really happened to American forces in secret Pentagon files and extensive interviews Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from with American veterans and Vietnamese explosive reality in a clear, concise manner. survivors, Turse reveals for the first time how official policies resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded.
Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Submarine's Covert Operations Nitze, George Kennan, and Against the Soviet Union the History of the Cold War by Peter Sasgen by Nicholas Thompson 9780312605537 TP 9780312658861 TP $16.99 $17.00
Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes A brilliant and revealing biography of the two the action principally from the perspective of a most important Americans during the Cold War commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the era—written by the grandson of one of them. Cold War taking readers closer to the Soviet target than any work on submarine espionage has ever done before.
The Cold War: A History The Vietnam War: A by Martin Walker Graphic History 9780805034547 TP by Dwight Jon Zimmerman $19.00 9780809094950 HC $19.95
“The history of the Cold War has been the history of the Through beautifully rendered artwork, The Vietnam world since 1954." So begins this wide-ranging War: A Graphic History depicts the course of the narrative by an award-winning political commentator, war from its initial expansion in the early 1960s which is the first major study of the Cold War. Now that through the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, and what it is over, it is crucial to our future to understand how transpired at home, from the antiwar movement and the Cold War has shaped us and, especially, to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin recognize it as the economic and political dynamic that Luther King Jr. to the Watergate break-in and the determined the structure of today's global economy. resignation of a president.
For the Soul of Mankind: The The Age of Great Dreams: United States, the Soviet America in the 1960s Union, and the Cold War by David Farber by Melvyn P.Leffler 9780809015672 TP 9780374531423 TP $17.95 $21.00
Melvyn P. Leffler hones in on four crucial episodes In this book, David Farber grounds our when American and Soviet leaders considered understanding of the extraordinary history of the modulating, avoiding, or ending hostilities and asks 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. why they failed.
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren 9780374400231 TP $11.99
This affecting true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is Amerasian -- a mixed- race child -- with little future in Vietnam. Escape from Saigon allows readers to experience Long's struggle to survive in war-torn Vietnam, his dramatic escape to America as part of "Operation Babylift" during the last chaotic days before the fall of Saigon, and his life in the United States as "Matt," part of a loving Ohio family.
SCIENCE / HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY OF THE TIMES
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of Carrying the Fire: An the Cold War Space Race Astronaut's Journeys by David Scott by Michael Collins 9780312308667 TP 9780374531942 TP $19.99 $17.00
In this dual autobiography, Apollo 15 commander David The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Scott and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first man to ever Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the walk in space, recount their exceptional lives and careers Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have spent on the cutting edge of science and space done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the exploration —and their participation in the greatest event: man reaching the moon remains one of the technological race ever—to land a man on the Moon. great events—technical and spiritual—of our
lifetime. In this remarkable book, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor of that adventure.
The Last Man on the Moon: One Giant Leap: Neil Astronaut Eugene Cernan and Armstrong's Stellar America's Race in Space American Journey by Eugene Cernan by Leon Wagener 9780312199067 HC $25.95 9780312875923 TP 9780312263515 TP $16.99 $14.99
Written with New York Times bestselling author Don Relying on hundreds of interviews with family Davis, this is the astronaut story never before told - and friends of the astronaut, plus generous access about the fear, love and sacrifice demanded of the to the NASA files, Leon Wagener explores the few men who dared to reach beyond the heavens for life of one of America's true heroes, in a book the biggest prize of all - the Moon. filled with extraordinary adventure, and even greater achievement.
Deke! An Autobiography Flying to the Moon: An by Donald Slayton and Michael Cassutt Astronaut’s Story 9780312859183 TP by Michael Collins $17.99 9780374423568 TP $9.99
Deke! is Deke Slayton's' story--told in his own words and in In this entrancing account, space traveler Michael the voices of the men and women who worked with him and Collins recalls his early days as an Air Force test knew him best. Deke Slayton's knowledge of how the .S. pilot, his astronaut training at NASA, and his manned space program worked is the missing piece of every unparalleled experiences in orbit, including the space buff's puzzle. Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar landing.
JFK AND THE 1960s: BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
PERIOD FICTION
Me and Jack Dogtag Summer by Danette Haworth by Betsy Partridge 9780802794536 HC 1599901838 HC $16.99 $16.99 1599908298 TP $7.99
Joshua Reed is used to moving around since his dad Half Vietnamese, half American, Tracy’s not sure became an Air Force recruiter and the Vietnam War broke she fits in with her family in California. But when out. But their newest home, in the mountains of she and her best friend find a soldier’s dogtag, she Pennsylvania, feels special somehow. Josh has started to is jarred by memories from her life in Vietnam, make a new friend, his dad has finally allowed him to get a and the lingering anti-war sentiments that dog, and Jack-with his strange glowing ears and the way he surround her today. Where is home when you’re a seems to understand Josh's feelings-is like no other dog child of war? Is it the country that’s buried deep Josh has ever seen. When a local boy is killed overseas, the within your memories? Or is it the place you live, town turns on the new air force recruiter. And when a few among the people you call family? late-night disturbances all point to Jack, it will be up to Joshua to fight for his dog, his family, and his new home.
The Wall My Louisiana Sky by Peter Sis by Kimberly Willis Holt 9780374347017 HC 9780805052510 HC $17.95 $18.99 9780312660956 TP $6.99
Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and Set in the South in the late 1950s, this coming-of- dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a age novel explores a 12-year-old girl's struggle to child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of accept her grandmother's death, her mentally a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of deficient parents, and the changing world around Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. her.
JFK PRESIDENCY / HISTORY
Kennedy’s Last Days Kennedy Through the by Bill O’Reilly Lens: How Photography 9780805098020 HC and Television Revealed $19.99 and Shaped an Extraordinary Leader by Martin W. Sandler 9780802721600 HC $19.99
A riveting historical narrative of the shocking As the well-reviewed Through the Lens series events surrounding the assassination of John F. continues, Sandler aims the spotlight on John F. Kennedy. Kennedy, one of our most photogenic presidents, providing insight into how JFK used the new medium of television and the advances in color photography to further his ambitious agenda.
MUSIC AND ART / POP CULTURE OF THE 1960s
Fabulous: The Story of Action Jackson Andy Warhol by Jan Greenberg and by Bonnie Christainsen Sandra Jordan 9780805087536 PI 9780312367510 PI $16.99 $7.99
From his early days in Pittsburgh in the 1930s to the Take a look at Jackson Pollock's intriguing height of his glory in the 1960s, this book chronicles method of painting during the creation of one of Warhol’s remarkable transformation from a sickly his famous paint-swirled and splattered child into a renowned Pop Art icon. canvasses.
The Girl Who Became A Beatle Rebels in Paradise by Greg Taylor by Hunter Drohojowska- 9780312652593 HC $16.99 Philp 9780312606831 TP $9.99 9780805088366 HC $32.50
When 16-year-old Regina Bloomsbury wishes her The extraordinary story of the artists who band could be as famous as the Beatles, her wish propelled themselves to international fame in comes true, and she experiences fame and celebrity 1960s Los Angeles. Suitable for high school firsthand. readers and above.
POLITICS / CIVIL RIGHTS FOR YOUNG READERS
We March Rosa By Shane W. Evans by Nikki Giovanni 9781596435391 PI 9780312376024 PI $16.99 $7.99
A picture book tribute to Rosa Parks, A picture book about the American Civil Rights Movement. celebrating the 50th anniversary of her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus.
To The Mountaintop Leaving Glorytown by Charlayne Hunter-Gault by Eduardo F. Calcines 9781596436053 HC 9780374343941 HC $22.99 $17.95
The story of the Civil Rights Movement told from the Coming of age in Communist Cuba. frontlines perspective of Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who made history as one of the first black students to attend the University of Georgia in 1961.
The Private Thoughts of My Life With The Amelia E. Rye Lincolns by Bonnie Shimko by Gayle Brandeis 9780374361310 HC 9780805090130 HC $16.99 $16.99
That true friend finally arrives when Fancy Mina’s dad begins taking Mina along to Nelson, the first Negro kid Amelia has ever seen hear speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr in in person, walks into her fourth grade classroom. Chicago. And soon he brings the freedom movement to their own small town, with
consequences for everyone.
Yankee Girl Lunch-Box Dream by Mary Ann Rodman by Tony Abbott 9780312535766 TP 9780374346737 HC $16.99 $7.99 9781250016683 TP $6.99
The story of two white brothers visiting civil The year is 1964, and Alice Ann Moxley's FBI- agent father has been reassigned from Chicago to war battle fields on a family trip in the 1950s Jackson, Mississippi, to protect black people who intersects with that of a black family looking for are registering to vote. a missing child, when accident and crisis find them all on the same bus.
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 9780312661052 TP $9.99
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim
Crow South.
2009 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature and a 2010 Newbery Honor Book.
MULTICULTURAL STUDIES
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party 90 Miles to Havana by Ying Cheng Compestine by Enrique Flores-Galbis 9780805082074 HC $16.95 9781596431683 HC $17.99 9780312581497 TP $8.99 9781250005595 TP $6.99
A middle grade Cuban-American coming-of- A novel about a young girl growing up during the Chinese age novel inspired by the author's own cultural revolution. experience.
BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION
Part of Me by Kimberly Willis Holt 9780805063608 HC $16.95 9780312581459 TP $7.99
Tracing a family’s roots is like taking a journey through the years. In the case of one Louisiana family, that journey can be charted by the books they read and loved.
SCIENCE/BIOGRAPHY
One Small Step: Celebrating the First Men On the Moon by Jerry Stone 9781596434912 HC $24.95
Touch, feel, and experience the story behind the first moon landing… a collection of keepsakes and memories that bring that historic moment of pride an accomplishment to life for a new generation.