A thousand days : John F. Kennedy in the White House

ISBN: 0618219277
ISBN: 9780618219278
Physical Description: print xix, 1087 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st Mariner books ed.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Summary: An account of John F. Kennedy's campaign, election, and days as President.

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General Note:	"A Mariner book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: January 1961 -- The Road to the Nomination -- Triumph in Los Angeles -- Campaign for the Presidency -- Kennedy on the Eve -- Gathering of the Forces -- Prelude to the New Frontier -- Latin American Journey -- The Alliance for Progress -- The Hour of Euphoria -- The Bay of Pigs -- Ordeal by Fire -- New Departures -- Legacy in Southeast Asia -- Encounter in Europe -- Trial in Berlin -- The Reconstruction of Diplomacy -- Peril in the Skies -- No Truce in Terror -- New Directions in the Third World -- Tangle in Southeast Asia -- Africa: The New Adventure -- The World of Diversity -- The Country Moving Again -- The National Agenda -- In the White House -- Down Pennsylvania Avenue -- The Bully Pulpit -- The Politics of Modernity -- Battle for the Hemisphere -- Again Cuba -- The Great Turning -- The Not So Grand Design -- Two Europes: De Gaulle and Kennedy -- The Pursuit of Peace -- The Travail of Equal Rights -- The Negro Revolution -- Autumn 1963.