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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Caesar and The Last Lion offers a compelling account of one of American history's most dramatic and tragic events: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This vivid, powerful account of JFK's last six days -- the only record authorized by the Kennedy family -- is written with remarkable detail and immediacy, with an intimacy that is unparalleled. Though it is now fifty years in the past, the effects of that terrible day in 1963 are still felt today.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Caesar and The Last Lion offers a compelling account of one of American history's most dramatic and tragic events: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This vivid, powerful account of JFK's last six days -- the only record authorized by the Kennedy family -- is written with remarkable detail and immediacy, with an intimacy that is unparalleled. Though it is now fifty years in the past, the effects of that terrible day in 1963 are still felt today.
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WILLIAM MANCHESTER (1922-2004) was an award-winning American author, biographer, and historian and a professor emeritus of history at Wesleyan University. Among his many New York Times bestselling books are: The Last Lion, a three-volume biography of Winston Churchill; Goodbye, Darkness; A World Lit Only by Fire; The Glory and the Dream; The Arms of Krupp; and American Caesar. He received the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award.
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''A work of love, even passion . . . Mr. Manchester's final telling of the death of Kennedy is most moving.'' --Gore Vidal
''[An] articulately organized and utterly compelling compilation.'' --New York Times
''Mr. Manchester matches the dislocation and identification which almost everyone experienced during the tragic events of that long weekend. Inescapably.'' --Kirkus Reviews
''[An] articulately organized and utterly compelling compilation.'' --New York Times
''Mr. Manchester matches the dislocation and identification which almost everyone experienced during the tragic events of that long weekend. Inescapably.'' --Kirkus Reviews
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0330020277
- ISBN 13 9780330020275
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages960
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The Death of a President: November 20 - November 25, 1963
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