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The Kennedy half-century : the Presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of John F. Kennedy / Larry J. Sabato.

By: Sabato, Larry [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2013Edition: First U.S. edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-581) and index.Description: xiii, 603 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781620402801 (hardback) :; 1620402807 (hardback).Subject(s): Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Influence | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Public opinion | Public opinion -- United States | United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 | United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-DDC classification: 973.922092
Contents:
The birth of a legacy -- "President Kennedy dies at 1 P.M. Central Standard time" -- "All the marbles" -- Victory without a mandate -- The torch is passed -- Steel at home and abroad -- Europe, space, and Southeast Asia -- Echoes from Dealey Plaza -- 11/22/63 : questions, answers, mysteries -- Rounding up the usual suspects : the assassination's Puzzle Palace -- Examining the physical evidence : old and new controversies -- Inevitability : the assassination that had to happen -- The assassination and the Kennedy legacy -- "Let us continue" : Lyndon Johnson, pretender to the throne -- Crossed swords : Camelot vs. the Great Society -- "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming" : JFK's repudiation and revival -- The Carters and the Kennedys : Democratic Hatfields and McCoys -- Reagan and Kennedy : opposites attract -- Clinton grabs Kennedy's torch -- G.W. Bush : back to the Republican Kennedys -- Full circle : the twinning of Barack Obama and John Kennedy -- The people's president -- A flame eternal?
Summary: Reexamines John F. Kennedy 's assassination using heretofore unseen information and looks at the influence and legacy of JFK., which continues a half-century later.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-581) and index.

The birth of a legacy -- "President Kennedy dies at 1 P.M. Central Standard time" -- "All the marbles" -- Victory without a mandate -- The torch is passed -- Steel at home and abroad -- Europe, space, and Southeast Asia -- Echoes from Dealey Plaza -- 11/22/63 : questions, answers, mysteries -- Rounding up the usual suspects : the assassination's Puzzle Palace -- Examining the physical evidence : old and new controversies -- Inevitability : the assassination that had to happen -- The assassination and the Kennedy legacy -- "Let us continue" : Lyndon Johnson, pretender to the throne -- Crossed swords : Camelot vs. the Great Society -- "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming" : JFK's repudiation and revival -- The Carters and the Kennedys : Democratic Hatfields and McCoys -- Reagan and Kennedy : opposites attract -- Clinton grabs Kennedy's torch -- G.W. Bush : back to the Republican Kennedys -- Full circle : the twinning of Barack Obama and John Kennedy -- The people's president -- A flame eternal?

Reexamines John F. Kennedy 's assassination using heretofore unseen information and looks at the influence and legacy of JFK., which continues a half-century later.

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