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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An account of the 1963 death of the author's father against a backdrop of JFK's assassination describes how her mother, three sisters and she were financially dependent on her father's wages and how their loss and Catholic faith resonated th experiences of the nation.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the longest-serving director of the CIA befriended the wealthy elite, targeted foreign leaders for assassination, and manipulated American presidents to further his own agenda, and offers new evidence of his involvement in the assassination of JFK.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Describes President Nixon's association, through a political advisor and lawyer, with individuals in the Mafia, including Mickey Cohen, Meyer Lansky, Jimmy Hoffa, and Carlos Marcello and details the favors he exchanged with them to advance his own career.
Author
Publisher
ISI Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating new book, acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Paul Kengor tells the untold story of the partnership between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan and how together they changed the course of world history. Kengor shows that the bonds between the pope and the president ran deeper than anyone has suspected, and that these bonds drove the two men to confront what they knew to be the great evil of the twentieth century:...
Author
Language
English
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Description
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring -- and surviving -- an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife...
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