Download or read book Jack 1939 written by Francine Mathews and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "one of the most deliciously high-concept thrillers imaginable" (The New Yorker) a young JFK travels to Europe on a secret mission for President Roosevelt 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.
Download or read book Jack Be Nimble written by Jack O'Brien and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A memoir from Jack O'Brien, one of America's best-loved theater directors and winner of three Tonys"--
Download or read book Jack in the Box written by Jack O'Brien and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Johnny Got His Gun written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review
Download or read book Ravensbr ck written by Jack Gaylord Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a case study of the Ravensbruck concentration camp, the only Nazi camp in Germany specifically designed for women. It successfully blends the larger history of Nazi Germany with the women's experiences, interspersing the text with illustrations done mostly by camp inmates.
Download or read book Jack and Lem written by David Pitts and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Investigation of the Naval Defense Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States Feature Films written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Surviving Hitler written by Andrea Warren and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the story of the Holocaust survivor who at fifteen was placed in a Nazi concentration camp and was forced to overcome intolerable conditions in order to not become a victim of Hitler's Final Solution.
Download or read book The World Almanac and Book of Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.
Download or read book Ghost Army of World War II written by Jack Kneece and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops was a force of only 1,000 men who, with skilled deceptions, often masqueraded as 34,000.
Download or read book Investigation of Un American Propaganda Activities in the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Convoy written by Philip Kaplan and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men of the American, British, & Canadian Merchant Marine -- the forgotten heroes of the Battle of the Atlantic -- are the focus of this lavishly illustrated large-format book, which includes unpublished reminiscences & some 250 photographs & paintings..
Download or read book Transcript of the Enrollment Books written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List for written by Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
