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Product Description [Read by Arthur Morey] One of the most celebrated historians of the era brings us his viewpoints on the his fight to publish his book on President Kennedy's death as well as other events of the time. The writing of Death of a President, William Manchester's award-winning account of President Kennedy's assassination, is the topic of the title essay in this collection, as it was a controversy like few others, pitting one of the most prominent historians of the day against Jackie Kennedy, the most famous, and private, widow in the world. The seventy-six page essay provides an insider's account of the struggle to see the book published. This sweeping collection further provides a penetrating look at the period between World War II and the Vietnam era. In an account that's both exacting in its accuracy and a pleasure to listen to, these essays cover the events that shaped world history during this period of time -- from the Bay of Pigs fiasco to Watergate and Vietnam. Review ''A work of love, even passion…. Mr. Manchester's final telling of the death of Kennedy is most moving; it is also less controversial than one had been led to believe by those who read the original manuscript.'' --Gore Vidal, New York Times bestselling author ''Essays in popular history... The strongest pieces... the Bank Holiday of 1933 and a resourceful slumlord... have a lively sense of financial mechanisms and historic periods.'' -- Kirkus Reviews About the Author William Manchester (1922-2004) was an award-winning American author, biographer, historian, and a professor emeritus of history at Wesleyan University. Among his many New York Times bestselling books are A World Lit Only by Fire; The Glory and the Dream; American Caesar; Goodbye, Darkness; and The Last Lion, a multivolume biography of Winston Churchill. He was also a recipie