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Zaprudered : the Kennedy assassination film in visual culture
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JFK : a vision for America
\"Combined with over seven hundred documentary photos, [this commemorative volume] tells the story, in words and pictures, of JFK's life and presidency, and depicts his ... vision for America\"--Amazon.com.
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The making of a Catholic president : Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960
The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated—New York Governor Al Smith in 1928—he was routed in the general election. From the outset, Kennedy saw the religion issue as the single most important obstacle on his road to the White House. He was acutely aware of, and deeply frustrated by, the possibility that his personal religious beliefs could keep him out of the White House. This book tells the fascinating story of how the Kennedy campaign transformed the “religion question” from a liability into an asset, making him the first (and still only) Catholic president. Drawing on archival research, including many never-before-seen documents, the book travels inside the campaign to show Kennedy's chief advisors—Ted Sorensen, John Kenneth Galbraith, Archibald Cox—grappling with the staunch opposition to the candidate's Catholicism. The book also reveals many of the Nixon campaign's efforts to tap in to anti-Catholic sentiment, with the aid of Billy Graham and the National Association of Evangelicals, among others. The alliance between conservative Protestants and the Nixon campaign, it shows, laid the groundwork for the rise of the Religious Right.
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Campaign of the Century
Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising
account of the twentieth century's closest election The
1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard
Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of
the twentieth century, yet the accounts to date have been
remarkably unbalanced. Far more attention is given to Kennedy's
side than to Nixon's. The imbalance began with the first book on
that election, Theodore White's The Making of the President
1960 -in which (as he later admitted) White deliberately cast
Kennedy as the hero and Nixon as the villain-and it has been
perpetuated in almost every book since then. Few historians have
attempted an unbiased account of the election, and none have done
the archival research that Irwin F. Gellman has done. Based on
previously unused sources such as the FBI's surveillance of JFK and
the papers of Leon Jaworski, vice-presidential candidate Henry
Cabot Lodge, and many others, this book presents the first
even-handed history of both the primary campaigns and the general
election. The result is a fresh, engaging chronicle that shatters
long†'held myths and reveals the strengths and weaknesses of both
candidates.
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Cruising for Conspirators
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest
Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967, set off a chain of events that
culminated in the only prosecution undertaken in the assassination
of John F. Kennedy. In the decades since Garrison captured
headlines with this high-profile legal spectacle, historians,
conspiracy advocates, and Hollywood directors alike have fixated on
how a New Orleans-based assassination conspiracy might have worked.
Cruising for Conspirators settles the debate for good,
conclusively showing that the Shaw prosecution was not based in
fact but was a product of the criminal justice system's
long-standing preoccupation with homosexuality. Tapping into the
public's willingness to take seriously conspiratorial explanations
of the Kennedy assassination, Garrison drew on the copious files
the New Orleans police had accumulated as they surveilled,
harassed, and arrested increasingly large numbers of gay men in the
early 1960s. He blended unfounded accusations with homophobia to
produce a salacious story of a New Orleans-based scheme to
assassinate JFK that would become a national phenomenon. At once a
dramatic courtroom narrative and a deeper meditation on the
enduring power of homophobia, Cruising for Conspirators
shows how the same dynamics that promoted Garrison's unjust
prosecution continue to inform conspiratorial thinking to this day.
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The Propaganda of Freedom
The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic
vitality
Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that
only artists in free societies can produce great art became a
bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied
centuries of historical evidence--to say nothing of achievements
within the Soviet Union--failed to impact impregnable cultural Cold
War doctrine.
Joseph Horowitz writes: \"That so many fine minds could have
cheapened freedom by over-praising it, turning it into a
reductionist propaganda mantra, is one measure of the intellectual
cost of the Cold War.\" He shows how the efforts of the CIA-funded
Congress for Cultural Freedom were distorted by an
anti-totalitarian \"psychology of exile\" traceable to its secretary
general, the displaced Russian aristocrat/composer Nicolas Nabokov,
and to Nabokov's hero Igor Stravinsky.
In counterpoint, Horowitz investigates personal, social, and
political factors that actually shape the creative act. He here
focuses on Stravinsky, who in Los Angeles experienced a \"freedom
not to matter,\" and Dmitri Shostakovich, who was both victim and
beneficiary of Soviet cultural policies. He also takes a fresh look
at cultural exchange and explores paradoxical similarities and
differences framing the popularization of classical music in the
Soviet Union and the United States. In closing, he assesses the
Kennedy administration's arts advocacy initiatives and their
pertinence to today's fraught American national identity.
Challenging long-entrenched myths, The Propaganda of
Freedom newly explores the tangled relationship between the
ideology of freedom and ideals of cultural achievement.
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