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  • In His Own Words

    Alcoholic | Truck Driver | Governor | Us Senator the Harold Hughes Story

    by Russell Wilson, William Hedlund ...
    Written by two men who knew him very well, this book is not intended to be another biography of Harold E. Hughes. Nor is it intended to be an academic work. It is intended to reveal the many facets of Hughes’ colorful, tragic, complex, successful, productive, and spiritual life from the perspective of people who knew him best—his family, his friends and his co-workers. It’s also meant to give him ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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  • Sinatra and the Jack Pack

    The Extraordinary Friendship between Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy?Why They Bonded and What Went Wrong

    by Michael Sheridan, David Harvey ...
    A New York Times BestsellerFrank Sinatra desperately wanted to be part of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s gang. He had his own famed Rat Pack,” made up of hard drinking, womanizing individuals like himself-guys like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Peter Lawford-but the guy Ol’ Blue Eyes” really wanted to hang with was Lawford’s brother-in-law, the real chairman of the board, John F. Kennedy.In Sinatra ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Peter Lawford Story

    Life with the Kennedys, Monroe, and the Rat Pack

    by Patricia Lawford Stewart, Ted Schwarz ...
    As the brother in law to JFK and a member of the Rat Pack, Peter Lawford was one of America's most acclaimed movie stars.Lawford led an extraordinary life. His story, as told by the woman who knew him best, is the always candid, sometimes shocking unveiling of the most intriguing show business personalities and significant political events of our time.Now fully updated and revised for 2014 this is ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Promise and the Dream

    The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy

    by David Margolick ...
    "A fascinating, elegiac account" of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era's most important leaders—from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit ( Chicago Tribune).With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path toward fulfilling its promise of liberty and justice for all. In The Promise and the Dream, Margolick examines their ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • JFK: History in an Hour

    by Sinead Fitzgibbon ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, America’s youngest President, was assassinated barely one thousand days into his Presidency. In the fiftieth anniversary of his death, this is the story of the man who brought an aspirational new approach to American politics.Born into the glamorous cast of Kennedys, JFK was propelled to political success despite family ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • The Invisible Bridge

    The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

    by Rick Perlstein ...
    The New York Times bestselling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s is “a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today” (Frank Rich, The New York Times Book Review).In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until televised Watergate ... Read more

    $26.00 CAD

  • The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

    A Biography

    by David Halberstam ...
    "Far and away the best book written about Senator Kennedy," from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author ( The New York Times ).Structured around the 1968 Democratic presidential campaign, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy offers an in-depth exploration of Robert Kennedy, both as a man and a politician.Kennedy's mass appeal to minority groups, his antiwar stance, and ... Read more

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  • Who Was John F. Kennedy?

    by Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Jill Weber ...
    Series series Who Was?
    The man who saved the lives of his PT-109 crewmen during WWII and became the 35th president fought-and won-his first battle at the age of two-and-a-half, when he was stricken with scarlet fever. Although his presidency was cut short, our nation's youngest elected leader left an indelible mark on the American consciousness and now is profiled in our Who Was...? series. Included are 100 black-and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    "Sandra Day O'Connor takes you behind the closed doors of the Supreme Court to reveal how Justice O'Connor helped craft landmark decisions on abortion, affirmative action, and a host of other critical issues. Joan Biskupic has broken new ground in reporting on O'Connor's life and historic role on the high court. This lively, fast-paced account will make people rethink how they view this ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letters to Jackie

    Condolences from a Grieving Nation

    by Ellen Fitzpatrick ...
    "A terrific, original, and important work….Fitzpatrick provides a stunningly fresh look at the impact of JFK's assassination on the American people."—Doris Kearns GoodwinFor Letters to Jackie, noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick combed through literally thousands of condolence messages sent by ordinary Americans to Jacqueline Kennedy following the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • William Randolph Hearst: Media Myth and Mystique

    by Daniel Alef ...
    William Randolph Hearst was a man of mythical proportions and staggering contradictions. And he was a fascinating character so much so that he appears in various fictional works from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" to Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" as if his life was not sufficiently bizarre in its own right. At its peak Hearst's media empire included ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

    by Thurston Clarke ...
    After John Kennedy's assassination, Robert - formerly his brother's no-holds-barred political warrior - was left stunned and grieving. He was haunted by his brother's murder and by the nation's failure to address its most pressing challenges - race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. He sensed that America was wounded, and when he announced that he was running for president, much of the country was ... Read more

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