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The Last Campaign
Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
by Thurston Clarke
The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president — a revelatory history that is especially resonant now. After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Robert Kennedy — formerly Jack’s no-holds-barred political warrior — a lmost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother’s murder, and by the nation’s seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty and the war in... (more)
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Robert Kennedy and His Times
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). 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... (more)
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A Leader Becomes a Leader
Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation
by J. Kevin Sheehan
A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)
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The Enemy Within: The McClellan Committee's Crusade Against Jimmy Hoffa and Corrupt Labor Unions
by Robert F. Kennedy
This is the authoritative, compelling account of one of the most famous, consummate, and effective Senate investigations in modern Congressional history. From 1956 to 1959 the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field (chaired by Sen. McClellan and guided by chief counsel Robert Kennedy) heard more than 1500 witnesses and uncovered a shocking story, proving that labor leaders,... (more)
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Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid
by Joe Klein
People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be found. There is a cynicism in Washington that appalls those in every... (more)
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Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
by Robert F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
Throughout the 1960s, Robert F. Kennedy kept a private journal of favorite quotations, recording the philosophies of great leaders and thinkers throughout history. Thirty years after his father's tragic death, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy has culled the highlights of this journal, along with moving portions of Robert Kennedy's most memorable speeches, to create an inspiring, immortal voice for his father's vision. With... (more)
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Kennedys an American Drama
by David Horowitz, Peter Collier
The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both family members and hundreds of people close to the Kennedys. An immediate classic, "The Kennedys" combines intimate... (more)
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Courage: Eight Portraits
by Gordon Brown
What is it that makes some men and women take difficult decisions and do the right thing against the odds when easier and far less dangerous alternatives are open to them? Why is it that some people - like the undercover heroes working for SOE in Occupied France or the passengers of the United 93 flight on 9/11 - have the courage to dare? To answer these questions, Gordon Brown explores the lives of eight... (more)
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Thirteen Days
A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Robert F. Kennedy
The unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities involved in the... (more)
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The Train of Small Mercies
by David Rowell
In haunting and crystalline prose, The Train of Small Mercies follows six characters' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy. In New York, a young black porter struggles through his first day on the job-a staggering assignment aboard Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train. In Pennsylvania, a woman creates a tangle of lies to sneak away from her disapproving husband and pay her respects... (more)
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You Hear the News?
by Walter J. Lamberg
1968 is not proving to be a very good year for Sergeant E-5 William Hirschfield, assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division, in the Republic of Korea. Shortly after he arrived, he made three discoveries: First, there was some kind of warfare going on in Korea, in spite of the fact that the Korean War Armistice was signed in 1953. Second, if, as so many said, war is hell, well Korea in the winter is colder than hell.... (more)
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Fearless
by Sherry Laymon
One of the most powerful members of Washington during one of the most controversial periods in recent history-who was John McClellan, and how does his legislation still impact the nation today?
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Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob
by Gil Reavill
Mafia Summit is the true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra conference in 1957, exposing the Mafia to America In a small village in upstate New York, mob bosses from all over the country—Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Cuba boss Santo Trafficante, and future Gambino boss Paul Castellano—were nabbed by Sergeant Edgar D. Croswell as they gathered to... (more)
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by Andy Williams Moon River and Me, A Memoir 1ST edition
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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
by Thurston Clarke
The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for presidenta revelatory history that is especially resonant now After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Robert Kennedyformerly Jack’s no-holds-barred political warrioralmost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother’s murder, and by the nation’s seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam.... (more)
The great conspiracy trial; an essay on law, liberty and the Constitution.Jason Epstein
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Castles Made of Sand
by Keair Snyder
When Liz Sanders leaves her parents’ home in Ohio with her best friend Julie at her side, she is full of expectations for her future but none of them can compare with what she gets. At first the California scene she has entered intimidates her but on her first day of classes at Berkeley, California becomes her home. She tries to carve out her place there while also keeping herself together despite the pressure of... (more)
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Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)
by Happy Traum
Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan
Women of Camelot
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Jacqueline Bouvier. Ethel Skakel. Joan Bennett. Three women who married into America's royal family and became forever linked in legend. Set against the panorama of explosive American history, this unique story offers a rarely-seen look at the relationship shared among the three women — during the Camelot years and beyond. Whether dealing with their husbands' blatant infidelities, stumping for their many political... (more)
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Robert Kennedy in His Own Words
The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years
by Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman
Immediately after 1963, Robert Kennedy organized an oral history project to preserve the accounts of his brother's associates. Now 20 years after his own death, interviews conducted with RFK himself are first being published. The public events of JFK's Administration are the bounds of these sessions focusing on civil rights and foreign affairs. Terse, frequently pungent, RFK's transcripted remarks are valuable for... (more)