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Shop nowThe Death of a President
November 20–November 25, 1963
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Joe Barrett
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Length
33 hours 20 minutes
Language
English
As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of President John F. Kennedy's death, including the days immediately preceding and following the assassination. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive travel, and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation, accumulating forty-five volumes of documents, exhibits, and transcribed tapes. His ultimate objective—to set down as a whole the national and personal tragedy that was JFK's assassination—is brilliantly achieved in this galvanizing narrative, a book universally acclaimed as a landmark work of modern history.
William Manchester (1922–2004) was an award-winning American author, biographer, historian, and a professor emeritus of history at Wesleyan University. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. Among his many New York Times bestselling books are two which made the #1 spot on the list: The Death of a President and The Last Lion: Alone.
Edith Sheffer is a historian and senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the prize-winning Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain.
Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.
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Reviews
“A work of considerable fascination…it is startlingly evocative.”
“William Manchester is a gifted and conscientious writer.”
“It tells you what happened, and it tells you how it felt while it was happening.”
“An extraordinarily impressive, fascinating, and absorbing piece of work.”
“An authoritative, powerful account of the Dallas tragedy.”
“It seems not at all inconceivable that we have here an American contribution to the great literature on the death of kings.”
“A work of love, even passion…Mr. Manchester’s final telling of the death of Kennedy is most moving.”
“This is a great piece of writing.”
“The book is astounding in its revelations, not only of affairs of state at the highest levels of power but also in its unique x-raying of a national disaster pursued by the author to its tiniest and ultimate reverberation. In this reviewer’s experience there has never before been a book like this.”
“Mr. Manchester matches the dislocation and identification which almost everyone experienced during the tragic events of that long weekend. Inescapably.”
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