She thinks the book was called “For one brief shining moment…there was Camelot.” And maybe it was written by Theodore Sorenson. Not positive. It was written in the late 60’s or early 70’s. It is fiction. It is about JFK telling what would have happened if he had lived. Does this sound familiar to anyone? In print or out of print? I'd like to buy it for her as a gift.
2006-07-28 13:02:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The only fiction featuring JFK I remember is called "The Immortals" by Michael Korda. I don't think Theodore Sorenson wrote any fiction; although he wrote quite a bit about JFK.
Good Luck!!
2006-07-28 13:28:05 · answer #1 · answered by MEL T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
on ebay
Book club edition. There are 783 pages. In January 1953, freshman Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts hired a 24 year old Unitarian from Nebraska as his Number Two legislative assistant -- on a trial basis. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, Sorensen in the eleven years that followed became known as Kennedy's intellectual blood bank top policy aide and alter ego. Sorensen knew Kennedy the man, the Senator, the candidate and the President as no other associate did throughout these eleven years. He was with him during the key crises and turning points -- including the spectacular race for the Vice Presidency at the 1956 convention, the launching of Kennedy's Presidential candidacy, the speech to the Protestant clergy of Houston, the TV debates with Nixon and election night at Hyannis Port. The first appointment made by the new President was to name Ted Sorensen his Special Councel. Sorensen relates the role of the White House staff and evaluates Kennedy's relations with his Cabinet and other appointees. He reveals Kennedy's errors on the Bay of Pigs, his attitudes toward the press and the Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sorensen saw firsthand Kennedy's actions in the Berlin and Cuban missile crises, his anger at the increase in steel prices and the evolution of his beliefs on civil rights and arms control. Three months to the day after Dallas, Sorensen left the White House to write the account of those eleven years that only he could write. He admits at the outset the bias of so personal a memoir. Yet he recounts failures as well as successes with surprising candor and objectivity
2006-07-28 20:19:12 · answer #2 · answered by Joe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theodore Sorenson has a few about Kennedy. Check out Amazon.com
2006-07-28 20:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by AfterThought 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a book called "Libra" by Don DeLillo. Its fiction and its about what happened with Kennedy, the Oswald theory and Castro.
There is another book called "One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy" by William Manchester. Its clearly about Kennedy and the years he served.
Both are on Amazon.com. Good luck!
2006-07-28 21:58:14 · answer #4 · answered by bella italia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the book your mom is looking for is One brief shining moment : remembering Kennedy by William Raymond Manchester
2006-07-29 18:56:13 · answer #5 · answered by sleepyredlion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It actually sounds familiar. Try looking up books on the Kennedys on Barnes and Noble's website, or maybe Amazon. Look up the author, and also just general Kennedy stuff.
2006-07-28 20:05:20 · answer #6 · answered by svetlana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you thought of going to Amazon or Books A Million? How about trying the library. You people really have little sense or imagination about how to find out information quickly and efficiently.
2006-07-28 20:07:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found several books with that quotation in them about the Kenedy's at Amazon, but nothing by that author. I will post the URL for the books I found and you or your mom can look at them and see if any of them are what she's looking for.
2006-07-28 22:21:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋