Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot - Hardcover

O'Reilly, Bill; Dugard, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447233646 ISBN 13: 9781447233640

Verlag: Macmillan, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; 325 pages: illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white); 20 cm. Notes; Originally published: New York: Henry Holt, 2012. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; 'Killing Kennedy' recounts in detail the brutal murder 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. In January 1961, as the cold war escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of communism while he learns the hardships, solitude and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. At the same time, JFK acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Then, in the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, a sequence of gunshots kills a beloved president and sends America into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. A page-turner from beginning to end, Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life fifty years after the most notorious crime of the twentieth century. 'Immersively written ...A powerful historical precis' Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Subjects; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 - Assassination. Presidents - Assassination - United States - 20th century. American history: from c 1900 -. Political assassinations. USA; c 1960 to c 1970. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism. POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General. Kennedy, John F.

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Immersively written . . . Mr. O'Reilly and Mr. Dugard succeed in investing a familiar national tragedy with fresh anguish. . . A powerful historical precis. Janet Maslin, The New York Times

All the suspense and drama of a popular thriller. Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor

" --The Christian Science Monitor

"Immersively written . . . Mr. O'Reilly and Mr. Dugard succeed in investing a familiar national tragedy with fresh anguish. . . A powerful historical precis." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"All the suspense and drama of a popular thriller." --Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor

Reseña del editor:

More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of non-fiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal muder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent America into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader. This may well be the most talked about American book of the year.

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• Verlag: Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1447233646
• ISBN 13: 9781447233640
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336