Showing results for "JFK" in Literature & Fiction

"JFK" es la segunda parte de la trilogía de Madrid del escritor Sergio Galarza, el descarnado relato de un joven que alquila su cuerpo y de una memoria a medio camino entre un padre exigente y lejano y una madre atrapada en un laberinto de afectos incomprensibles. Una radiografía de un alma a flor de piel, de una piel tatuada con miles de llamadas de teléfono a las tantas de la madrugada. Un audiolibro demoledor.

John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache. In the White House, he never had a headache. Kennedy met Mary Pinchot in 1935, when he was eighteen and she was sixteen. Twenty years later, when she was living in Virginia and married to Cord Meyer, a high-ranking CIA official, she was Jack and Jackie Kennedy’s next-door neighbor. In 1962, she was an artist, divorced, living in Washington—and Kennedy’s first serious romance. Mary Pinchot Meyer was more than a bedmate. She was Kennedy’s beacon light: his sole female adviser.

Ted Sorensen, JFK’s closest adviser, speech writer and friend, in his own words and final interview, brings us directly into the Oval Office as a member of Kennedy’s inner circle. This film reveals how essential Sorensen was to the administration, as Kennedy said: “My intellectual blood bank”. Not only with the epic speech “Ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country,” but as special counsel to the President.

This "absolutely irresistible" historical romance imagines the courtship between Jacqueline Bouvier and the future American president she loved (People).​ In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life...

The New Frontier is a collection of speeches and addresses from JFK's time in office - including his last ever speech, as well as the initial assassination report following his murder.