One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy de Manchester, William - 1983

Boston MA / Toronto Canada.: Little Brown and Company., 1983. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Volume sun fade, top, lower edges. Jacket edges, spine ends, corners have wear.. 1 Light blue cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. Blind-stamped front titles. 280 p. 16 pgs color, 180 B&W photos.28 cm. Audience: General/trade. U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, b.1917-d.1963, by assassination. This commemorative memoir and history was authored by William Manchester who hd first met Kennedy in Boston in 1946, when both were recovering from crippling World War II wounds suffered in the Pacific theatre. Their friendship, trust, and mutual respect grew while pursuing different careers. Manchester's authorized history, "The Death of a President" later went forward when J.F.K. 's widow Jacqueline Kennedy and brother Robert selected him as historian.