Murrow's Cold War : public diplomacy for the Kennedy administration / by Tomlin, Gregory M., 1979-

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Flawed logics : strategic nuclear arms control from Truman to Obama by Lebovic, James H.

Table of Contents: “…Early Success at Arms Control: The Kennedy Administration and the Limited Test Ban Treaty --…”
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Money and security : troops, monetary policy and West Germany's relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971 by Zimmermann, Hubert

Table of Contents: “…Offset and Monetary Policy During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1962 --…”
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Window on freedom : race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988

Table of Contents: “…Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America: international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration /…”
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Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy : the National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy. by Bose, Meena

Table of Contents: “…""APPENDIX B Selected Speeches from the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""…”
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Between the branches : the White House Office of Legislative Affairs by Collier, Kenneth E., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Eisenhower administration -- The Kennedy administration -- The Johnson administration -- The Nixon administration -- The Ford administration -- The Carter administration -- The Reagan administration -- The Bush administration -- The Clinton administration -- Conclusion.…”
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Federal Judges : the Appointing Process. by Chase, Harold W. (Harold William), 1922-1982

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER I: An Overview; CHAPTER II: The Kennedy Administration; CHAPTER III: The Eisenhower Administration; CHAPTER IV: The American Bar Association Committee; CHAPTER V: The Johnson Administration; CHAPTER VI: Conclusions; NOTES; INDEX.…”
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Federal Judges : the Appointing Process. by Chase, Harold W. (Harold William), 1922-1982

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER I: An Overview; CHAPTER II: The Kennedy Administration; CHAPTER III: The Eisenhower Administration; CHAPTER IV: The American Bar Association Committee; CHAPTER V: The Johnson Administration; CHAPTER VI: Conclusions; NOTES; INDEX.…”
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The birth of Head Start : preschool education policies in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations by Vinovskis, Maris A., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Changing views of poverty and early child development -- Education, poverty, and early schooling in the Kennedy administration -- Education policy, the war on poverty, and the 1964 election -- Organizing OEO and passing ESEA -- Implementing, evaluating, and improving Head Start programs -- Congressional and administration debates about transferring Head Start.…”
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Blind over Cuba : the photo gap and the missile crisis by Barrett, David M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The making of a "photo gap": August 29 to October 14, 1962 -- Obscuring the photo gap -- The struggle over the postmortems -- Stonewalling the House -- The Senate steps in -- Tensions within the Kennedy administration: fashioning a unified story -- End of the trail: the "interim" report -- The costs of managed history -- Appendix: a historiography of the photo gap, 1963-2011.…”
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Federalizing the muse : United States arts policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965-1980 by Binkiewicz, Donna M.

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to policy -- Let us begin : arts policy during the Kennedy administration -- Let us continue : arts policy during the Johnson administration -- Creating an agency : the National Council on the Arts and its agenda -- A modernist vision : visual arts program administration, 1967-1975 -- The improbable patron : Richard Nixon and the expansion of arts policy -- The pluralist seventies.…”
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Blind oracles : intellectuals and war from Kennan to Kissinger by Kuklick, Bruce, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The social rule of the man of knowledge -- Scientific management and war, 1910-1960 -- Theorists of war, 1945-1953 -- RAND in opposition, 1946-1961 -- Accented and unaccented realism, 1946-1961 -- RAND and the Kennedy administration, 1961-1962 -- Cuba and Nassau, 1962 -- Intellectuals in power, 1961-1966 -- The Kennedy school of government, 1964-1971 -- The Pentagon papers -- Henry Kissinger -- Diplomats on foreign policy, 1976-2001.…”
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Blind oracles : intellectuals and war from Kennan to Kissinger by Kuklick, Bruce, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The social rule of the man of knowledge -- Scientific management and war, 1910-1960 -- Theorists of war, 1945-1953 -- RAND in opposition, 1946-1961 -- Accented and unaccented realism, 1946-1961 -- RAND and the Kennedy administration, 1961-1962 -- Cuba and Nassau, 1962 -- Intellectuals in power, 1961-1966 -- The Kennedy school of government, 1964-1971 -- The Pentagon papers -- Henry Kissinger -- Diplomats on foreign policy, 1976-2001.…”
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Advocating for Israel : diplomats and lobbyists from Truman to Nixon by Aridan, Natan

Table of Contents: “…Transitions : from the Jewish agency to the state of Israel, 1948-1952 -- Securing aid, 1948-1952 -- Winds of criticism and the downgrading of Israel -- The Hasbara struggle in the wake of US coercive diplomacy, 1954-June 1956 -- The ramifications of Israel's Sinai war -- Surmounting obstacles in the mending of fences, April 1957-December 1960 -- Great expectations of the Kennedy administration, 1961-1963 -- The Johnson administration, 1963-1969 -- The Nixon and Ford administrations, 1969-1975.…”
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Confronting America : the Cold War between the United States and the communists in France and Italy by Brogi, Alessandro, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The communists and national rebirth in France and Italy, 1944-1946 -- Confronting the communists in government : the American response, 1944-1947 -- Polarized confrontation : U.S. aid and propaganda versus cominform in France and Italy, 1947-1950 -- Communist peace campaigns and American psychological warfare, 1948-1955 -- The cultural Cold War at its peak : mass culture and intellectuals, 1948-1956 -- Diplomatic maneuvering : communist and American interplay of foreign and domestic policies during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations -- Redefining oppression : the 1960s, from affluence to youth protest -- Redefining interdependence : the Eurocommunism of the 1970s and the U.S. response -- Epilogue : cultural and political decline.…”
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U.S. foreign policy towards apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994 : conflict of interests by Thomson, Alex, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…A balancing act: key U.S. interests and Apartheid South Africa -- "Mutual cooperation" and "serious concern": the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, 1948-1961 -- "The best of both worlds": the Kennedy administration, 1961-1963 -- "A frustratingly difficult set of policy considerations to juggle": the Johnson administration, 1963-1969 -- "The whites are here to stay": the Nixon and Ford administrations, 1969-1977 -- "Andy Young is not a policy": the Carter administration, 1977-1981 -- "Neither the clandestine embrace nor the polecat treatment": the Reagan administration, 1981-1984 -- "There are occasions when quiet diplomacy is not enough": the Reagan administration, 1984-1986 -- "Sanctions by themselves do not represent a policy": the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations, 1986-1994.…”
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The Irony of Vietnam : the System Worked. by Gelb, Leslie H.

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Classic Edition; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: Decisions: Getting into Vietnam; Patterns, Dilemmas, and Explanations; Recurrent Patterns and Dilemmas from Roosevelt to Eisenhower; Picking Up the Torch: The Kennedy Administration; Intervention in Force: The Johnson Administration, I; Coming Home to Roost: The Johnson Administration, II; Part Two: Goals: The Imperative Not to Lose; National Security Goals and Stakes; Domestic Political Stakes; The Bureaucracy and the Inner Circle.…”
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Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965 : Britain, the United States, and the creation of Malaysia by Jones, Matthew, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Build-up. The Kennedy Administration, Indonesia and the resolution of the West Irian crisis, 1961-1962 -- The Greater Malaysia scheme I : the move towards merger -- The Greater Malaysia scheme II : the Cobbold Commission and the Borneo territories -- Britain, Indonesia and Malaya : from West Irian to the Brunei revolt -- pt. …”
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Bay of Pigs

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The civil rights movement by Newman, Mark (Historian)

Table of Contents: “…The End of Jim Crow in the South, 1960-1965; i) The Sit-Ins; ii) The Kennedy Administration and Civil Rights; iii) The Civil Rights Act of 1964; iv) Selam and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; 4. …”
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Window on freedom : race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988

Table of Contents: “…., during the Kennedy years / Michael Krenn -- Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America : international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration / Mary L. Dudziak -- Antiwar Aztlán : the Chicano movement opposes U.S. intervention in Vietnam / Lorena Oropeza -- From Cold War to global interdependence : the political economy of African American antiapartheid activism, 1968-1988 / Donald R. …”
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Interview with Bill D. Moyers, 1981

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John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel. by Ben-Zvi, Abraham

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China's economic relations with the West and Japan, 1949-79 : grain, trade and diplomacy by Mitcham, Chad J., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms used in text -- Introduction -- Statistical note -- Part I 1949-August 1960 -- 1 Grain imbalances, CHINCOM and China's evolving economic and foreign trade strategy, 1949-June 1957 -- 2 China's 'Great Leap' famine, 'test purchases' of Western grain and return to 'readjustment', July 1957-August 1960 -- Part II September 1960-September 1962 -- 3 Chinese-Western grain trade diplomacy -- 4 Aircraft, grain and the Kennedy Administration's China policy debate, September 1961-September 1962 -- Part III September 1962-July 1964 -- 5 Japanese-Western China trade competition -- 6 China market rivalries intensify -- Part IV August 1964-October 1965 -- 7 The 'Third Front', Vietnam and China's foreign trade, August 1964-February 1965 -- 8 Vietnam escalation and the non-strategic China trade -- Part V October 1965-79 -- 9 Cultural Revolution delays -- 10 Emergence from Cultural Revolution -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations in notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Interview with Roger Hilsman, 1981

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Broken Ground (RLE Edu D) : John F Kennedy and the Politics of Education. by McAndrews, Lawrence J.

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Portrait of a President. by Manchester, William

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Murder, Inc. : the CIA under John F. Kennedy by Johnston, James H., 1944-

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John Bartlow Martin : a voice for the underdog by Boomhower, Ray E., 1959-

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Modernization as ideology : American social science and "nation building" in the Kennedy era by Latham, Michael E.

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At the crossroads of fear and freedom : the fight for social and educational justice by Green, Robert Lee

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Understanding John Updike by Svoboda, Frederic Joseph, 1949-

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Sport and the color line : black athletes and race relations in twentieth-century America

Table of Contents: “…Martin -- Civil rights on the gridiron : the Kennedy administration and the desegration of the Washington Redskins / Thomas G. …”
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The Schoolhouse Door : Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama. by Clark, E. Culpepper

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Inventing equal opportunity by Dobbin, Frank

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Running for Freedom Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941. by Lawson, Steven F.

Table of Contents: “…Community Mobilization and the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Massive Resistance and Eisenhower Moderation -- The Tuskegee Struggle -- Fayette County, Tennessee -- A Measure of Progress -- Chapter 3 Surging Protest, Shifting Politics -- Crusaders for Citizenship -- The Kennedy Administration and Civil Rights -- SNCC's Encounter with Mississippi -- Martin Luther King, Jr., the SCLC, and the Crisis at Birmingham -- Freedom Votes, Freedom Summer -- The Triumph of LBJ -- Chapter 4 Reenfranchisement and Racial Consciousness -- The Selma Movement and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- Rise of Black Power…”
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JFK and de Gaulle : how America and France failed in Vietnam, 1961-1963 by McLaughlin, Sean J., 1978-

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JFK and de Gaulle : how America and France failed in Vietnam, 1961-1963 by McLaughlin, Sean J., 1978-

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Resisting Brown : race, literacy, and citizenship in the heart of Virginia by Epps-Robertson, Candace

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An unseen light : black struggles for freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

Table of Contents: “…Green -- Black Memphians and new frontiers: the Shelby County Democratic Club, the Kennedy administration, and the quest for black political power, 1959-1964 / Elizabeth Gritter -- "Since I was a citizen, I had the right to attend the library": the key role of the public library in the civil rights movement in Memphis / Steven A. …”
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