A powerful memoir, compiled by Robert Kennedy's youngest son, contains stirring and compassionate writings recorded in the slain politician's personal journals throughout the 1960s. Reprint.
Published 20 years after his death, here are Robert Kennedy's startlingly candid recollections of what went on behind the Camelot curtain--everything from the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis to first-hand observations about Khruschev, early Civil Rig
New York: Harper, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author to Nevada State Senator Farrell L. Seevers. Purchased by the son of the senator to whom it is inscribed. Includes both Kennedy’s and the inscribee’s business c
A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father.Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Artic
A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first presidentRevolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustr
A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and GladstoneA protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executi
A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- d
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. In this updated edition, the prominent political historian continues to reflect on the "recurring strug
