Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1965. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering in red title bands and boxes to spine and front cover. No ISBN in book. A Very Good in a Good Jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and sound, ends bumped. Jacket clean with edge wear and chipping. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xvi + 1087 pages.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this is the classic study of the presidency of John F. Kennedy as told by a master historian who had the advantage of personally witnessing the great and tragic events of which he writes. Contents; 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 democracy; Peril in the skies; No truce to 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.

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Seller: Books of the World (US)
Seller's Inventory #: RWARE0000004131
Title: A Thousand Days. John F. Kennedy in the White House
Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Book Club Edition
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside
Place of Publication: Boston / Cambridge
Date Published: 1965
Pages: xvi + 1087
Size: 8vo
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: biography, Kennedy, JFK, government, history, politics, politicians, presidents, United States, Pulitzer, National Book Award
Bookseller catalogs: Politics & Government; History; International Relations; Biographies;

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