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The Kennedy half-century : the Presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of John F. Kennedy / Larry J. Sabato.

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New York : Bloomsbury, c2013.

9781620402801 (hbk.)

1620402807 (hbk.)

xiii, 603 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

The birth of a legacy -- "President Kennedy dies at 1 P.M. Central Standard time" -- "All the marbles" -- Victory without a mandate -- The torch is passed -- Steel at home and abroad -- Europe, space, and Southeast Asia -- Echoes from Dealey Plaza -- 11/22/63 : questions, answers, mysteries -- Rounding up the usual suspects : the assassination's Puzzle Palace -- Examining the physical evidence : old and mew controversies -- Inevitability : the assassination that had to happen -- The assassination and the Kennedy legacy -- "Let us continue" : Lyndon Johnson, pretender to the throne -- Crossed swords : Camelot vs. the Great Society -- "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming" : JFK's repudiation and revival -- The Carters and the Kennedys : Democratic Hatfields and McCoys -- Reagan and Kennedy : opposites attract -- Clinton grabs Kennedy's torch -- G.W. Bush : back to the Republican Kennedys -- Full circle : the twinning of Barack Obama and John Kennedy -- The people's president -- A flame eternal?

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