John F. Kennedy, President
by Hugh Sidey
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For generations, fathers and sons have used the language of sports to work out their differences and express their love for each other. Fathers & Sons & Sports""presents a""powerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life, written by such great sportswriters and authors as Henry Aaron, as told to Cal Fussman - Michael J. Agovino - Buzz Bissinger - Jeff Bradley - John Ed Bradley - James Brown - Darcy Frey - Tom Friend - Bill Geist - Mike show more Golic - Donald Hall - Paul Hoffman - Mark Kriegel - Norman Maclean - John Buffalo Mailer - Ron Reagan - Peter Richmond - Jeremy Schaap - Lew Schneider - Dan Shaughnessy - Paul Solotaroff - John Jeremiah Sullivan - Wright Thompson - Steve Wulf The unforgettable accounts here include the stories of a professional football player passing on his""father's secrets to his own sons, a severely disabled boy discovering joy on a surfboard, a wealthy NFL player taking his coddled children back to the mean streets that made him, and a major league manager who must face the hard fact that nothing, not even unconditional love, can save his son. Anyone who has ever been a father or a son will see himself in these moving snapshots of family life at its most emotional. Whether the stories take place on a diamond, a court, a gridiron, a fairway, or a chessboard, they're all about the same subject: fatherhood, one of the world's most intriguing sports. "From the Trade Paperback edition." show lessTags
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When reading this book 10 or 15 years ago the author conveyed to me that John F Kennedy was the right leader at the time. Reading it I am less impressed. The author presents a sort of hagiography, plenty of nice things to say about him (and his wife and family) and very little of the other facts, other than that he got grumpy and implying that he lied a bit to cover up bad language.
Missing is the underhand ways in which he came to power (i.e. Daley and Chicago), his links to unsavoury people and his extra-martial affairs (to put it politely - Trump's got nothing on JFK).
However, it's a very good essay of the presidency of John Kennedy. The book was completed prior to the assassination in Dallas, but this was included with little comment show more in the last few pages. It stood too close to the events of the previous three years to grasp to importance and weight of what the world was going through at the time. It's also unable to reflect on the missteps that were probably in relation to Vietnam - it was JFK that pulled USA and many other countries into the war. show less
Missing is the underhand ways in which he came to power (i.e. Daley and Chicago), his links to unsavoury people and his extra-martial affairs (to put it politely - Trump's got nothing on JFK).
However, it's a very good essay of the presidency of John Kennedy. The book was completed prior to the assassination in Dallas, but this was included with little comment show more in the last few pages. It stood too close to the events of the previous three years to grasp to importance and weight of what the world was going through at the time. It's also unable to reflect on the missteps that were probably in relation to Vietnam - it was JFK that pulled USA and many other countries into the war. show less
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Hugh Sidey joined the LIFE magazine staff in 1955 & began reporting on the White House in 1957. He has been writing his column "The Presidency" for TIME since 1966. Sidey has served as the president of the White House Historical Association since 1998 & in 2000 was featured as the narrator & interviewer in the popular PBS television series The show more American President. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- John F. Kennedy Presidente
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- John F. Kennedy President
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- John F. Kennedy
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
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- 973.922092 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- Cold War, Vietnam War, Digital Age (1953-2001) Dwight D. Eisenhower, 2nd Term (1953-1961) Sputnik Crisis, Little Rock Crisis, National Aeronautics and Space Act Biography
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- E842 .S5 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 Kennedy's administration, 1961-November 22, 1963 Assassination, funeral, memorial services, etc.
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