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Author Morrow, Lance.

Title The best year of their lives : Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948 : learning the secrets of power / Lance Morrow.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2005]
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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  328.73092 MORROW    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.9 M83    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  328.73 MORROW    Check Shelf
Description xl, 312 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index.
Contents Three crises -- The anxiety of the overdog -- Annus mirabilis -- 1: Three young men -- Jack's favorite movie -- The transformation of a quaker boy -- Johnson at bay -- Interlude: the American scene -- Washington -- Brumidi's frescoes and film noir -- Ellis Island, the frontier, and the Taft-Hartley Act -- 2: Families -- The Johnsons of Texas -- The Kennedy's: John Buchan and a strange Irish anglophilia -- The Nixons of California -- Interlude: the world scene -- From society of necessity to society of choice -- Marshall -- Science and discoveries -- 3: Early 1948 -- Lyndon for sale -- Young, obscure and orthogonian -- Jack and Kick: May 1948 -- Interlude: questions of character -- The sinking of PT-109 -- The Caracas thesis -- LBJ's silver star -- 4: Late summer -- The Hiss case -- Lyndon vs. Coke --
Subject Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
ISBN 0465047238 hardcover
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