Kennedy Books

This is a very attractive and extensive survey of World War II. It should be invaluable to the student of the period, enlightening to the history enthusiast, and an important reference work for scholars. It has an emphasis on the American experience overall, but adequately covers the relative involvements of all the major national powers (and many minor ones) from the level of private citizens and front-line soldiers, to the generals and leaders of states. There are discussions of individual combat weapons and machines as well as the composition, strategy and movement of entire armed forces. Topics are liberally illustrated with photographs and artwork, and supported with many letters, personal experiences (such as those collected from the Veterans History Project), maps, charts, statistics, and quantitative analyses to help the reader absorb the information.

The text is concise and easy to read, and includes a 35 page index and well organized chapter headings to help the reader search out topics of interest. At the end of each chapter, the authors have compiled principle sources and further reading.

Overall, this is quite a comprehensive survey (at 942 pages of text), of a topic of profound importance. Highly recommended.

I find this book to be a very good resource. In addition it is very vell organized and easy to read. A very good book for students and people with a general interest in the subject.

(One error I did find was that Albert Speer's name was left off the list of defendants at the first Nuremberg trial on pages 927 and 928)

If you've read Rose Kennedy's autobiography you'll definately want to read this too for another look. This is written by a former secretary of Rose's starting around 1974 (just after her autobiography was written). It's both interesting and comical.

For instance I was shocked to read the state of their Palm Beach Florida house had fallen into - it sounds like a disaster as no one seemed to have the responsiblity to maintain it (shredded curtains, everything old and dirty etc) but this is not how one thinks the Kennedy's live particularly Rose. And with only one overworked cook/maid/allaround at each home (Maine & Florida) but all the Kennedy children visiting and making demands just as if there was still the staff that there probably had been when they were growing up.

Also I was surprised at some of the Kennedy children & families behavior. For instance the author mentions when she introduced herself to Sargent Shriver (Eunice Kennedy's husband and father to Maria Shriver) as Rose's new secretary, he replied to her, laadeedaa, rather unpleasantly.

It's quick and easy reading and seems want to present things in a fair manner. It's very entertaining and one sees that even with all that money and power it doesn't mean that your life will be well ordered and just how you like it, like you think it would be if you had it all.

WOW... I just borrowed this book from my aunt and what a nice peice to read. Sadly, they don't print any more copies of it. It really is to bad because now i just have to keep her copy.

A very in depth study of the Name of Jesus. An excellent study for serious students of the Bible. A ton of information packed in here!

This book is another another excellent interactive Bible study by one of the best Bible teachers. Dean examines the I AM statements from the book of John and connects them to God's Old Testament name, I AM. Then she helps the reader understand the authority and power he or she has in Jesus' name. I highly recommend this book for individual or small group studies.

Winner of the Marian Library Medal in 1953, John S. Kennedy's book, Light on the Mountain: The Story of La Salette, is one of the most historically definitive books available regarding the Marian apparition in the mountains of La Salette, France to two iron-willed, overworked, discarded, uneducated shepard children-Maximin Giraud, aged 11 and Melanie Mathieu, aged 14-on September 19th, 1846. Through his own research and readings, John S. Kennedy creates a very visual and accurate and convincing profile that slowly transports the reader to the very day the apparition occurred, as well as to the positive aftereffects that continued, even to this very day. The La Selette apparition was quite unique in that it was the first time the Blessed Mother appeared to children, long before Lourdes, Fatima, Beauraing and Banneux. And she appeared to two less-than-stellar, rude, poor practitioners of the Christian faith. But in her choosing of them, she chose all of us, for these kids, were, in essence, a mirror for what we all were and unfortunately continue to be, self-absorbed and wolfish people with a heavy disregard not simply for faith but for people completely. Faith in God evolved, somehow, into an unnecessary philosophy whereby it was actually viciously derided with a unified sneering jocularity by almost all the villages that were on the outskirts of the mountains. People drank and cussed, lived lecherously and only went to church to mock it, for as the Virgin Mother stated to Melanie and Maximin: "If my people will not obey, I shall be compelled to loose my son's arm. It is so heavy, so pressing that I can no longer restrain it. How long I have suffered for you! If my Son is not to cast you off, I am obliged to entreat Him without ceasing. But you take no least notice of that. No matter how well you pray in the future, no matter how well you act, you will never be able to make up to me what I have endured for your sake. I have appointed you six days for working. The seventh I have reserved for myself. And no one will give it to me. This it is which causes the weight of my Son's arm to be so crushing. The cart drivers cannot swear without bringing in my Son's name. These are the two things which make my Son's arm so burdensome...Only a few rather old women got to Mass in the summer. All the rest work every Sunday throughout the summer. And in winter, when they don't know what to do with themselves, they go to Mass only to poke fun at religion. During Lent they flock to the butcher shops, like dogs..." What is so stark about the La Sallette apparition is not only the choice of messengers but the frightening directives and secrets, the very latter so relevant, especially in today's times.

That's exactly what I was looking for when I first wanted
to research the apparition of Our Lady of La Salette further
than what one could find on the internet.
And that's exactly what I found in this book! The author
obviously researched his material as much as is possible, providing an abundant supply of documentation, but he does not present it in a way that is dry or boring. He manages to put all the facts together and tell a very good and inspiring story in the process. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in this apparition.

An excellent book about people you can really grow to like. By the end of the book, I felt I knew Lizzie and her kids and the rest of the characters, and I cared about what happened to them. Granted, there were times when I wanted to tell her to leave that *(@&$( husband of hers but the story was so gently told that I could understand why she did what she did.

Lizzie had always been a quiet prim girl, but when she meets Bobby she gets more than she bargains for, for Bobby lives only for the dog and horse racing. Never the less, Lizzie stands by her man as WW2 erupts all around her in the back streets of London. Lizzie has some tough times and tougher decisions ahead of her, especially when her sister dumps her kids on the kindly Lizzie, and it's a long time before her and her beloved Bobby can settle down to a peacefull life of thier own. A great book full of the community spirit which helped Londoners through the terrible time of the Blitz.

The best of the best in Love Precious Humanity. I can read one a day or a chapter or submerge myself in the entire book and come up shining. Harry's compassion, appreciation, and integrity are interwoven into these pages.
Many years ago Kitchen Table Wisdom was published. This belongs on the same shelf or nightstand.

The aphorisms of Harry Palmer reflect humor, wisdom and remarkable insight, and cover some thirty categories of human experience that have been arranged and presented with fine sensitivity by Editor Kennedy. Comparison with other collections such as the TAO TE CHING reflects the same qualities; however Mr. Palmer presents something new: that the individual has the power to create her or his own life by fully experiencing his or her beliefs about life, and accepting full responsibility for them --something along the lines of Goethe's thought, "Whatever you can do or believe you can do, begin: boldness carries its own genius, power and magic." Well worth reading, meditating and enjoying, and acting upon for years to come.

Two books in one, because it divides sharply into two parts. The first half, running about 110 pages, is a very readable biography. The second half, running about 75 pages, provides analysis of what you'll hear in each of Mahler's compositions. For example, one chapter is devoted to "The Song of the Earth" and it runs 11 pages. This makes the book a very useful reference for getting to know each of Mahler's works.

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In the hackneyed phrase, this seems a "fair and balanced" presentation and critique of Mahler's life and works. It's not exhaustively long, which makes it a pleasant read.

By the way, Kennedy rates Das Lied von der Erde as Mahler's greatest overall work Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Bernstein, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ; he also highly esteems the Kindertotenlieder, and rates the Sixth as Mahler's greatest symphony Mahler: Symphony No6; Rückert Lieder : I think he's pretty close to being right on all scores.
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Robert Weisbrot's Maximum Danger provides another cogent analysis of the Kennedy/Cuba crisis: this from the viewpoint of Kennedy's overall attitude toward the Soviet Union's growing missile strength. Weisbrot argues that John Kennedy attempted to minimize confrontations with the Soviets, pursuing different options to avert the crisis. Maximum Danger provides an engaging, thoughtful series of different viewpoints about the missile crisis.

"A powerful and provocative look at what the publics view was on the Cuban missile crisis. Maximum Danger reveals startling information from both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. Robert Weisbort tells the real story of what Kennedy and his administration endured through almost near nuclear holocaust."

Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill: The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, edited by David Gould and James B. Kennedy (Kent, Ohio, 2004).

This is my favorite Civil War book. It provides the reader with as vivid a sense a book could afford of what it was like to live the daily life of a foot-soldier during the Civil War, except of course for the absolute horror that attended the battles of that conflict. We experience through the eyes of a seasoned and insightful soldier some of the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of his world. While John Henry Otto was a well-trained former Prussian soldier, he was above all a civilized and thoughtful man of good-will and humanity. He approached faults and weakness in others with humor , kindness, and realism, and he clearly saw himself as one of the many, rather than as one deserving aggrandisement.

The 21st Wisconsin was a regiment which suffered a high number of casualties during the war. It received a harsh initiation into battle, when, just one month after the regiment was formed, it was thrown into a key position at the battle of Perryville. The regiment lost heavily in that conflict, with the serious wounding of its colonel, Benjamin J. Sweet, and the deaths of many officers and men. Battle was not the only thing with which these soldiers had to contend as part of their introduction to war: they were late in receiving essential equipment such as tents and waterproof blankets, as a result of which many suffered and died from exposure, as well as from the diarrhea and foot ailments which plagued most troops. Many of the regiment, including Surgeon Samuel J. Carolin, died from the impact of these deprivations upon their health in the month following Perryville.

The battles of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Resaca, Atlanta, Savannah, and Bentonville are also depicted and the narrative concludes with the grand parade in Washington which celebrated the end of the war. Otto's memoirs are one the only detailed first-hand accounts of some aspects of these battles and they provide much needed insight into their atmospheres -- how people reacted under crisis, how they interacted, how they sustained one another.

The felicitous collaboration of David Gould, John Henry Otto's great-grandson, and James B. Kennedy, a scholar of the 21st Wisconsin Regiment, has resulted in a readable, personalized classic. They wisely avoid over-editing some of Otto's spelling, grammar, and punctuation idiosyncrasies save where understanding might be compromised, and they permit the intelligent and eloquent soldier to speak for himself. That he was eminently capable of doing so is evident from the following passage in which John Henry Otto describes camping on Lookout Mountain: "We lived now so to speak in another Climate. At such an elevation the air was allways pure and keen and nearly allways, especially at night time, a lively wind blowing." (P. 215.)

This is a unique book, one deserving of several readings and one to share with family.

This is the best Civil War account of a midwestern (Wisconsin) soldier and the day to day activities that a common soldier had to endure that I have read. It chronicles the day to day life, as well every battle from Murfreesboro, to Atlanta, to the Savannah. Written from the perspective of a common soldier rather than from the perspective of a General. It reads like a novel. Excellent!

The best kept secret from the underground JFK conspiracy books will soon be available on DVD complete with the historic telephonic interviews of key Assassination witnesses in mp3 audio format and the updated original manuscript in pdf file format. William Greer, Roy Kellerman, the motorcycle cops behind the limo (who smelled gunpowder and thought the shooter was "real close"), Senator Ralph Yarborough, Cops who saw a "Bullethole" in the windshield at Parkland Hospital and many more. These historic interviews were conducted in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Most of these people are now deceased.
Murder From Within will challenge all your basic assumptions about the assassination and it's aftermath. It's about how a small, clever and crude brutal "inside job" was able to both kill the President and then control the flow of evidence. Evidence designed to frame a "patsy". This modus operandi is how they could both kill the President AND get away with it. No other conspiracy scenario answers the question of how "they" got away with it than this one. As detailed in Murder From Within back in 1974 this could only be possible if the killers were also in the possesion FIRST of all the "chain of custody" prime evidence. The very same Secret Service agents who failed to protect the President also had possession of the body,the crime scene(limo) and all photgraphic and forensic evidence before the FBI or Warren Commission had a chance to look at it.

Ty Newcomb (son of the author Fred T. Newcomb)

The entire research community is so indebted to Fred Newcomb: he gave us the body alteration theory (years before David Lifton), cogent criticisms of the Secret Service (while I was in diapers!), analysis of the LHO backyard photos (later made fmaous by jack White), the Dodd/ Seaport Traders theory (in "Reasonable Doubt" and "Ultimate Sacrifice", among others), and, unfortunately, the Greer-shot-JFK theory (years before William Cooper et. al.). That aside, this book reads well and even has good comments about JFK's foreign policy (Vietnam). I am a proud owner of an original.
Vince Palamara-JFK/ Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of two books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.)
Pittsburgh, PA
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