Jack 1939

Jack 1939
Author: Francine Mathews
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2012-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781101588857

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Charming. Reckless. Brilliant. Deadly. A young Jack Kennedy travels to Europe on a secret mission for Franklin Roosevelt as the world braces for war. It’s the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In Washington, D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term and needs someone he can trust to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy. It’s a surprising selection. At twenty-two, Jack Kennedy is the attractive but unpromising second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain (and occasional political adversary). But when Jack decides to travel through Europe to gather research for his Harvard senior thesis, Roosevelt takes the opportunity to use him as his personal spy. The president’s goal: to stop the flow of German money that has been flooding the United States to buy the 1940 election—an election that Adolf Hitler intends Roosevelt lose. In a deft mosaic of fact and fiction, Francine Mathews has written a gripping espionage tale that explores what might have happened when a young Jack Kennedy is let loose in Europe as the world careens toward war. A potent combination of history and storytelling, Jack 1939 is a sexy, entertaining read.

Jack in the Box

Jack in the Box
Author: Jack O'Brien
Publsiher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780374603830

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The Tony Award–winning director gathers memories of people, productions, and problems surmounted from his fifty-year career in this one-of-a-kind how-to handbook. What do directors do? Jack O’Brien, the winner of Tony and Drama Desk Awards and the former artistic director of San Diego’s historic Old Globe theatre, describes it like this: “You stand before a situation in which something is presented to you. You’re afforded a challenge. Like catching an enormous ball. And you respond. You come up with a vision of some kind. That is, if you respond to the material at all, and one must, or it’s doomed. You sort of feel that since you relate to the material at hand, you might as well try to be helpful.” In Jack in the Box, O’Brien’s follow-up to his memoir Jack Be Nimble, the director collects stories from the many productions he has worked on, the great talents he encountered and collaborated with (including Tom Stoppard, Mike Nichols, Jerry Lewis, Marsha Mason, and many others), and the choices he made, on the stage and off, that have come to define his career. With humor, warmth, and contagious excitement, O’Brien takes the reader by the shoulder, pulls them in, and tells them how to become a director—or, at the very least, relates an unfailingly honest story of how he did.

Jack and Lem

Jack and Lem
Author: David Pitts
Publsiher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786732241

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I'm not that kind of boy,” Jack angrily wrote to Lem after his friend made a sexual advance. But Jack didn't end the relationship. From the time John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings met at Choate, until the President's assassination thirty years later, Jack and Lem remained best friends. Lem was a virtual fixture in the Kennedy family who even had his own room at the White House. Drawing on hundreds of letters and telegrams between the two, plus Lem Billings's oral history and interviews with family and friends like Ben Bradlee, Gore Vidal, and Ted Sorensen, award-winning Kennedy scholar David Pitts tells the story of an unusual friendship that endured despite an era of rampant homophobia.

Investigation of the Naval Defense Program

Investigation of the Naval Defense Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1362
Release: 1942
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: LOC:00186958925

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The World Almanac Book of Facts

The World Almanac   Book of Facts
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1022
Release: 1942
Genre: Almanacs, American
ISBN: UOM:39015055427978

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International Review of Agriculture

International Review of Agriculture
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1945
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: UCAL:$B12361

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The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States Feature Films

The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States  Feature Films
Author: American Film Institute
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1198
Release: 1993
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 0520079086

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"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Colonial Office List

Colonial Office List
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1218
Release: 1939
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: UOM:39015065722830

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