Description: The Death Of a President Nov 1963 William Manchester Hardcover BOMC Ed 1967. Photos are of Actual item listed not stock photos The book is dedicated: "For all in whose hearts he still lives—a watchman of honor who never sleeps".[1]The book chronicles several days in late November of 1963, from a small reception the Kennedys hosted in the White House on Wednesday, November 20, the evening before the visit to Dallas, through the flight to Texas, the motorcade, the assassination, the hospital, the airplane journey back to Washington, D.C., and the funeral on Monday, November 25. The tension between the Kennedy and Johnson factions, the worldwide reaction, and Lee Harvey Oswald's televised murder by Jack Ruby are all discussed in painstaking detail. The Death of a President: November 20–November 25, 1963 is historian William Manchester's 1967 account of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. The book gained public attention before it was published when Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, who had initially asked Manchester to write the book, demanded that the author make changes in the manuscript.
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Book Title: The Death of a President
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Book Series: Historical
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper & Row
Intended Audience: Adults
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Edition: Book Club Edition
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Publication Year: 1967
Type: History
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1960s
Author: William Manchester
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Political History, Politics, John F Kennedy, Presi
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Political History
