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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. One leading contemporary observer called it the finest American political document in more than forty years. Another said it was the best expression of the American spirit since Woodrow Wilson, and perhaps since Emerson. Approaching a half-century after its delivery, historians agree that there is at least one way in which John F. Kennedy ranks with Jefferson, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt_in the quality of his inaugural address. In Sounding the Trumpet, Richard Tofel tells the full story of this mythic moment in American history. He draws on original research materials in the Kennedy Library and elsewhere around the country, and, unlike earlier treatments of the subject, on exclusive conversations with Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy's aide and chief speechwriter. Sounding the Trumpet thus reveals many unknown details about this landmark speech: _Why JFK's famous handwritten 'draft' of the speech is not a draft at all _What happened to the speech's first draft _How Kennedy rejected a last-minute, path-breaking addition about civil rights _How extensive portions of the speech came from a draft submitted by Adlai Stevenson _How John Kenneth Galbraith tried to supplant Sorensen as Kennedy's draftsman _Precisely how much of the speech Kennedy wrote himself, and how much came originally from a draft by Sorensen Mr. Tofel sets the political scene for Kennedy's inaugural address, tells the story of the inaugural day in detail, and follows closely the writing of the speech, its delivery, and its reception then and later. He plumbs its many sources, from Shakespeare to the Old and New Testaments, from a key sentence crafted by John Kenneth Galbraith to an important change suggested by Walter Lippmann, and notes the influence on the speech of authors from Maxwell Taylor to Walt Rostow to Strunk and White. The context of the address_representing not only the transition from America's oldest president to its youngest elected leader, but also Kennedy's desire to respond to Nikita Khrushchev's push for wars of national liberation_is fully explained. Appendices include never-before-published drafts and transcriptions of the address. In all, Sounding the Trumpet is not only a fascinating story but the definitive history of one of the great speeches in American history. With 5 black-and-white photographs. THE BOOK INCLUDES A DVD OF THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. …

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The story of perhaps the greatest team in baseball history, narrated against a background of one of the game's most remarkable seasons-an original work of history based on considerable research. Mr. Tofel presents a good many usually overlooked findings and sets the sport in its social and historical context. The best book about a single baseball team in a single year I have ever read. -Donald Honig.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. One leading contemporary observer called it the finest American political document in more than forty years. Another said it was the best expression of the American spirit since Woodrow Wilson, and perhaps since Emerson. Approaching a half-century after its delivery, historians agree that there is at least one way in which John F. Kennedy ranks with Jefferson, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt_in the quality of his inaugural address. In Sounding the Trumpet, Richard Tofel tells the full story of this mythic moment in American history. He draws on original research materials in the Kennedy Library and elsewhere around the country, and, unlike earlier treatments of the subject, on exclusive conversations with Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy's aide and chief speechwriter. Sounding the Trumpet thus reveals many unknown details about this landmark speech: _Why JFK's famous handwritten 'draft' of the speech is not a draft at all _What happened to the speech's first draft _How Kennedy rejected a last-minute, path-breaking addition about civil rights _How extensive portions of the speech came from a draft submitted by Adlai Stevenson _How John Kenneth Galbraith tried to supplant Sorensen as Kennedy's draftsman _Precisely how much of the speech Kennedy wrote himself, and how much came originally from a draft by Sorensen Mr. Tofel sets the political scene for Kennedy's inaugural address, tells the story of the inaugural day in detail, and follows closely the writing of the speech, its delivery, and its reception then and later. He plumbs its many sources, from Shakespeare to the Old and New Testaments, from a key sentence crafted by John Kenneth Galbraith to an important change suggested by Walter Lippmann, and notes the influence on the speech of authors from Maxwell Taylor to Walt Rostow to Strunk and White. The context of the address_representing not only the transition from America's oldest president to its youngest elected leader, but also Kennedy's desire to respond to Nikita Khrushchev's push for wars of national liberation_is fully explained. Appendices include never-before-published drafts and transcriptions of the address. In all, Sounding the Trumpet is not only a fascinating story but the definitive history of one of the great speeches in American history. With 5 black-and-white photographs. THE BOOK INCLUDES A DVD OF THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. …

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The story of perhaps the greatest team in baseball history, narrated against a background of one of the game's most remarkable seasons-an original work of history based on considerable research. Mr. Tofel presents a good many usually overlooked findings and sets the sport in its social and historical context. The best book about a single baseball team in a single year I have ever read. -Donald Honig.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. The sudden disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater nearly 75 years ago led to perhaps the most famous missing persons case of the twentieth century. Crater, a justice of New York's state Supreme Court, vanished amid political scandal. Within days, questions arose about Judge Crater's finances and his liaisons with numerous women. A public frenzy about what happened to Crater provided impetus for scrutiny of New York's Tammany Hall political machine--and ultimately for the vanishing of Tammany Hall as well. The cast of characters in this book--the first-ever serious look at the Crater case--includes Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor who named Crater to the bench; Senator Robert Wagner, Crater's mentor, but also the leader with the most to lose from having Crater found; Al Smith, Tammany's ebbing leader and failed presidential candidate; Jimmy Walker, the rogue Mayor of New York City and the darling of Tammany Hall; and Fiorello La Guardia, the crusading reformer who finally came to power on the back of the scandals. Richard J. Tofel's Vanishing Point is a revealing look at New York as the Jazz Age gave way to the Depression, and at one of the most intriguing stories in the annals of urban America.…