(john fitzgerald)

Reexamines the last months of President John F. Kennedy's life to show a man in the midst of great change, finally on the cusp of making good on his promise.

"Historical photographs combined with . . . narration bring the story of the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debates to life. Readers will learn just how much effect seeing the debates had on the results of the election and how they changed presidential campaigning"--Provided by publisher.

Focuses on Kennedy's background, his political career, and responses to upheavals such as the civilrights movement and the Cuban missile crisis.

A collection of illustrated photographs that profile the life, career, and legacy of President John F. Kennedy.

Discusses the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Recounts the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.

Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events of the early 1960s, including conflicts between the U.S. and Soviet Union, and the stand-off between civil rights activists and segregationists.

A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.

A definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plot ever--with CIA agents, mob hitmen, 'kompromat' sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba's Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves amidst Congressional hearings and a national debate about the JFK assassination. This book revolves around the outlaw friendship of these two mob buddies and their fascinating world of CIA spies, fellow Mafioso in Chicago, Cuban exile commandos in Miami, beautiful Hollywood women, famous entertainers like Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack in Las Vegas, Castro's own spies in Havana and his double agents hidden in Florida, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI snooping, and the Kennedy administration's 'Get Castro' obsession in Washington. Who killed Johnny and Sam--and why wasn't Castro assassinated despite the CIA's many clandestine efforts?.

"...a narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films."--Provided by publisher.