Kampion, Helen

Summary: "The true story of First Lady "Lady Bird" Johnson's historic 1964 Whistle-Stop train journey, making almost fifty stops through eight Southern states in four days to campaign on behalf of her husband's reelection in the wake of the signing of the Civil Rights Act"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2024

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Kalman, Laura

Summary: "The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed, his Court cast a shadow that extends to our own era. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017

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Powers, Thomas

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grossman Publishers 1973

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VanDeMark, Brian

Summary: Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly, until now.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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Stone, I. F. (Isidor F.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1970

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Maraniss, David.

Summary: Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey to the battlefields of war and peace. In a seamless narrative, Maraniss weaves together three very different worlds of that time: the death and heroism of soldiers in Vietnam, the anger and anxiety of antiwar students...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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Bohrer, John R.

Summary: On November 22, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother, had been shot. JFK would not survive. In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, journalist John R. Bohrer focuses in intimate and revealing detail on Bobby Kennedy's life during the three years following JFK's assassination. Torn between mourning the past and plotting his future,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2017

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Shesol, Jeff.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997

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Caro, Robert A.

Summary: Examines Lyndon Johnson's volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns.

Summary: Explores the thirty-sixth President's background, his personal outlook and behavior, his political career, and the political system that fostered his rise.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991

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Summary: In the midst of riots, rebellion, and revolution of the 1960s, a reluctant soldier finds himself in the center of two wars. Randy is ripped from the front lines of the civil rights struggle and thrust into the war in Vietnam to battle for his life. An explosive story of one man's coming of age during the assassinations, protest, and war that defined the 60's and changed the world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Kennedy, Robert F.

Summary: "In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures. Twenty-five years after Robert Kennedy was assassinated, RFK: Collected Speeches, a celebration of Kennedy's life and legacy, was published and immediately became the standard for activists, elected officials,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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Hersh, Burton.

Summary: An evaluation of the complex relationship between the Kennedy family and the FBI director traces their shared political years through their parallel rises and controversial deaths and considers the roles played by such figures as Joe McCarthy and Martin Luther King.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2007

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Kaiser, David E.

Summary: Fought as fiercely by politicians and the public as by troops in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War, its origins, its conduct, its consequences, is still being contested. In what will become the classic account, based on newly opened archival sources, David Kaiser rewrites what we know about this conflict. Reviving and expanding a venerable tradition of political, diplomatic, and military history,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2000

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Summary: "RFK, a new biography of Robert Kennedy ... takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory: "He who learns must suffer." RFK is a tragedy in two acts. In part one: The garish sun, Robert Kennedy devotes himself to his glamorous brother John, suppressing his own ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name. In part two: The awful grace of God, after an assassin's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004

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Halberstam, David.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1992

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Shultz, Richard H.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999

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Woods, Randall Bennett

Summary: "In Prisoners of Hope, prize-winning historian Randall Woods presents the first comprehensive history of the Great Society, exploring both the breathtaking possibilities of politics, as well as the limits of liberalism. During his first two years in office, Johnson passed a host of historic liberal legislation as part of his Great Society campaign, from the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: The untold story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war in Vietnam. This movie profiles an event that profoundly impacted American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from memory.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006

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Summary: LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso. He rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus, like something from Shakespeare, filling the stage -- 10, 12 characters in one. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done, the size of the problems he faces. Before Lyndon Johnson, we were essentially a segregated society. Inequality...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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