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The Burden and the Glory, John F. Kennedy. The hopes and purposes of President Kennedy's second and third years in office as revealed in his public statements and addresses. Edited by Allan Nevins. Foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson."It is the fate of this generation- of you in Congress and of me as President- to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make. But the pressures of life are not always distributed by choice. And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom. John F. Kennedy to...
Harper & Row Publishers, Stated First Edition, 1964, with letters D-0. Very Good ++,clean, bright, ownership label on front pastedown. DJ Very Good, clean,colors vibrant, not clipped, back flap has small scrape , very slight shelf wear at top and bottom of spine. A Good, Collectable copy.

Set to publish for the 30th anniversary of RFK's assassination, this book is a major reassessment of the public and private life of Robert Kennedy and the heretofore unexamined politcal legacy he left behindLike Richard Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy continues to fascinate historians because of his Shakespearean complexity -- his ambivalent flirtation with the left combined with his tough law, anti-government stance that appealed to supporters on the right. In this provocative work, Michael Knox Beran reveals for the first ti
Book in Near Mint condition. No soiling, markings,owners' labels. Text clean and bright, colors vibrant. DJ in NearMint Condition, not clipped,clean and bright. A beautiful copy.me, the contradictions that distinguished Kennedy's career and his strong influence...

The state of New Hampshire is better known than any other by the nation of tourists at large. For this reason the numerous pictures, in a form to preserve, of the various portions of the state, will be the more valued by the public. The writer has an affection for New Hampshire, as he passed years of preparation there at Phillips Exeter Academy. It was in that state that he recovered and restored the famous Wentworth-Gardner House, which has now become the property of the Metropolitan Museum.
Here is a glimpse of New Hampshire as it was. Just as in his other volumes, Nutting, in poetry, prose and pictures, depicts the lush scenery of one of the nation's most beautiful mountain states. Included in the collection of photographs is the village meetinghouse in Hancock, an old schoolhouse in Westmoreland, farmers gathering hay in Tuftonboro, scenes of turn-of-the-century home life, and the interiors of some of the beautiful homes
Framingham Massachusetts, Old America Company 1923, First Edition, First… Read More

In five new novellas, the author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra, and The Campaign presents an ingenious and passionate reconstruction of history, past and present. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

Not a mere rehash of events, but a colorful tapestry of vibrantly expressive stories, Woodstock captures the true spirit of the festival at Woodstock and the times that spawned it. 150 photos.

A brief history of the twenty-first centuryWhen scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global… Read More

A brief history of the twenty-first centuryWhen scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global… Read More