Welcome to the Wayne G. Basler Library at Northeast State Community College
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This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new windowThese books are available online - clicking on the book will take you to it. If you are off-campus, you will need to enter your login information to access the books.
JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power by
The famed 19th century humorist Finely Peter Dunne once commented that life "would not be worth living if we didn't keep our enemies." Certainly John F. Kennedy could appreciate the wisdom behind this observation. At nearly every stage of his noteworthy political career, which stretched from the dank, run-down tenement houses of Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1946 to the gleaming downtown skyscrapers of Dallas, Texas in 1963, Kennedy had collected his fair share of enemies. Some, like Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in 1952 and Lyndon Johnson in 1960, presented formidable political obstacles to his attaining higher office. Others, like Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, threatened the very survival of the human race itself. Regardless of the stakes, Kennedy always seemed to rise to the level of the domestic or international challenge presented. "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man," he said. To those who knew him best, this single-mindedness was not surprising. "He clearly wanted to establish a place in history," insisted Robert McNamara, Kennedy's Secretary of Defense. But being an historian himself, Kennedy realized that political success did not come easily or cheaply. It required individual strength of character, clarity of thought, and the ability to act decisively. "There are risks and costs to action," he allowed. "But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
Who Shot JFK? by
The subject of nearly 1000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries and hundreds of Websites, the Kennedy assassination remains both the greatest whodunit of the post-World War Two era and the best route into recent American history.In Who Shot JFK? Robin Ramsay looks at the assassination through the work of the researchers who refused to buy the official cover-up story that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin. He explores; the major alternative theories produced by the critics of the official version, the major landmarks in the Kennedy assassination research and the disinformation produced on the subject since the event.'A potent little volume to sit on the shelf next to the downbeat lone-gunman version of the Don DeLillo novel and the all-singing, all-conspiring Oliver Stone DVD' - Guardian Unlimited
JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy by
The mother of all conspiracy theories is the supposed one about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Many of its elements have become part of American folklore: the single bullet, the grassy knoll shooter, and the mysterious deaths of interested parties. 'JFK Assassination Logic' shows how to approach such conspiracy claims.
Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art and Film by
On the historic 50th Anniversary, this reissued edition looks at the contemporary meanings and influences of images of the JFK assassination by filmmakers, photographers, and artists.
The Senator from New England: the rise of JFK by
Gold Winner for Political Science, 2015 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards John F. Kennedy's path to the presidency began during his eight years of service in the United States Senate. In The Senator from New England, Sean J. Savage contends that Kennedy initially pursued a centrist, bipartisan course in his rhetoric and policy behavior regarding the regional policy interests of New England. Following his narrow defeat for the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1956 and his nationwide speaking campaign for Adlai Stevenson, JFK's rhetoric and policy behavior became more partisan and liberal, especially during the 1958 midterm elections. While JFK claimed that he still protected and promoted the policy interests of New England on a bipartisan basis, he used his speaking engagements to interact with Democratic politicians throughout New England in an effort to secure the entire region's delegate votes at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Based on the use of primary sources, archives, and special collections from four presidential libraries, the Library of Congress, Boston College, the Margaret Chase Smith Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and other institutions, The Senator from New England provides an unrivaled glimpse into Kennedy's Senate career and early presidential campaign strategy.
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