The Death of a President
- Author William Manchester, William Manchester, Edith Sheffer
- Narrator Joe Barrett
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 1 November 2013
- Run Time 33 hours and 21 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre History of the Americas.
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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.
Critics Review
u201cA work of considerable fascinationu2026it is startlingly evocative.u201d
u201cWilliam Manchester is a gifted andnconscientious writer.u201d
u201cIt tells you what happened, and it tells you how it felt while it was happening.u201d
nu201cAn extraordinarily impressive, fascinating, and absorbing piece of work.u201d
nu201cAn authoritative, powerful account of thenDallas tragedy.u201d
u201cIt seems not at all inconceivable that we havenhere an American contribution to the great literature on the death of kings.u201d
u201cA work of love, even passionu2026Mr. Manchesteru2019s final tellingnof the death of Kennedy is most moving.u201d
u201cThis is a great piece of writing.u201d
u201cThe book is astounding in its revelations, notnonly of affairs of state at the highest levels of power but also in its uniquenx-raying of a national disaster pursued by the author to its tiniest andnultimate reverberation. In this revieweru2019s experience there has never beforenbeen a book like this.u201d
u201cMr. Manchester matches the dislocation and identificationnwhich almost everyone experienced during the tragic events of that longnweekend. Inescapably.u201d
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