John Fitzgerald Kennedy and His Times: 20Th Century America and the World in the Early 1960S

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 the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum-- Weddings and Diana and Jackie comes a 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.

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