Keeping Kennedys Promise

Author : Kevin Lowther
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429727259
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Kennedy's Promise written by Kevin Lowther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conclusions in this book rest equally on four bodies of evidence that provide a comprehensive overview of the Peace Corps' major work from its creation in 1961, the first year of the New Frontier, to mid-1977, when the newly elected Carter administration was considering how best to restore the agency to prominence here and abroad.

Author : Lewis J. Paper
Publisher : New York : Crown Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promise and the Performance written by Lewis J. Paper and published by New York : Crown Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this analysis of the Kennedy presidency, Paper attempts to portray his strengths and weaknesses. He evaluates Kennedy's performance as against promises by examining Kennedy's concept of the presidency, methods of decisionmaking, education of the public, and whether he inspired support for his policies and confidence in his leadership. Paper paints the picture of a man, not a myth, who was President. He finds that the man made mistakes, was a politician, was both cautious and daring, and was clearly a product of America's historical past. ISBN 0-517-52342-6.

Author : Kevin Lowther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965560184
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Kennedy's Promise written by Kevin Lowther and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Fairlie
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kennedy Promise written by Henry Fairlie and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Americans life will be more difficult and more challenging in the 1960's than it has ever been in the past"--John F. Kennedy. For Americans in the 1970's, these words from John Kennedy's 1960 campaign have an eerily prophetic ring, since the past decade did indeed bring unprecedented difficulties and challenges to the American people. Henry Fairlie argues that these were a self-fulfilling prophecy, that the very rhetoric and style of the Kennedys were largely responsible for the unrest and disilussionment that marked the late 1960's. "One cannot blame the Kennedy's," writes Mr. Fairlie, "for the whole displacement of politics which took pace in the 1960's; and on cannot blame them only for any of it. But the fact remains that they had an unusual impact on the social imagination of the American people during the years in which they acted, beyond the meaning of anything which they did, and that the force of that impact was to persuade the people either that the limits of politics could be transcended, or that politics could transcend the limits of the commonplace world."

Author : Thurston Clarke
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101617802
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book JFK's Last Hundred Days written by Thurston Clarke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Best Book of 2013 A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend is what might have been. As we approach the anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, JFK’s Last Hundred Days reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise. Kennedy’s last hundred days began just after the death of two-day-old Patrick Kennedy, and during this time, the president made strides in the Cold War, civil rights, Vietnam, and his personal life. While Jackie was recuperating, the premature infant and his father were flown to Boston for Patrick’s treatment. Kennedy was holding his son’s hand when Patrick died on August 9, 1963. The loss of his son convinced Kennedy to work harder as a husband and father, and there is ample evidence that he suspended his notorious philandering during these last months of his life. Also in these months Kennedy finally came to view civil rights as a moral as well as a political issue, and after the March on Washington, he appreciated the power of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., for the first time. Though he is often depicted as a devout cold warrior, Kennedy pushed through his proudest legislative achievement in this period, the Limited Test Ban Treaty. This success, combined with his warming relations with Nikita Khrushchev in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, led to a détente that British foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas- Home hailed as the “beginning of the end of the Cold War.” Throughout his presidency, Kennedy challenged demands from his advisers and the Pentagon to escalate America’s involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy began a reappraisal in the last hundred days that would have led to the withdrawal of all sixteen thousand U.S. military advisers by 1965. JFK’s Last Hundred Days is a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy’s public and private lives, explains why the grief following his assassination has endured so long, and solves the most tantalizing Kennedy mystery of all—not who killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led us.

Author : Irving Bernstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promises Kept written by Irving Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781738998432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. History written by P. Scott Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Author : Larry J. Sabato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620402823
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kennedy Half-Century written by Larry J. Sabato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and illuminating narrative revealing John F. Kennedy's lasting influence on America, by the acclaimed political analyst Larry J. Sabato.

Author : Lewis J. Paper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John F. Kennedy written by Lewis J. Paper and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irving Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199879664
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promises Kept written by Irving Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A counter-revisionist examination of JFK and his administration, Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Bernstein focuses on administraive and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment, Medicare, and the Peace Corps. He persuasively argues that Kennedy was indeed a successful president, showing that many of JFK's campaign promises were well on their way to enactment by the time of his assassination, even after two years of dealings with a balky and often hostile Congress, and the difficulty of working in a political system changing from conservative to liberal.