Caroline Kennedy
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxxii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 8 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President...
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 663 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From Publishers Weekly: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. The Declaration of Independence and...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of favorite holiday stories and excerpts including "The Night Before Christmas," by Clement C. Moore; "Little Tree," by e.e. cummings; and "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens.