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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., was an American attorney, journalist, and magazine publisher. He was a son of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and a younger brother of U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy. Three days after his father was assassinated, he rendered a final salute during the funeral procession on his third birthday. From his childhood years at the White House, Kennedy was the subject of much media scrutiny and later became a popular social figure in Manhattan. Trained as a lawyer, he worked as a New York City assistant district attorney for almost four years. In 1995, Kennedy launched George magazine, using his political and celebrity status to publicize it. He died in a plane crash in 1999 at the age of 38. Early life John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on November 25, 1960, at Georgetown University Hospital two weeks after his father and namesake, Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy, was elected president. His father was sworn in as president two months after John Jr. was born. His parents had a stillborn daughter four years before John Jr.'s birth. John Jr. had an older sister, Caroline, and a younger brother, Patrick, who died two days after his premature birth in 1963 of respiratory distress syndrome. His putative nickname, "John-John", came from a reporter who misheard JFK calling him "John" twice in quick succession; the name was not used by his family. John Jr. lived in the White House during the first three years of his life and remained in the public spotlight as a young adult. His father was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and the state funeral was held three days later, on John Jr.'s third birthday. In a moment that became a famous scene of his life, John Jr. stepped forward and rendered a final salute as his father's flag-draped casket was carried out from St. Matthew's Cathedral. NBC News vice president Julian Goodman called the shot "the most impressive...shot in the history of television", which was set up by NBC director Charles Jones, who was working for the pool. Lyndon B. Johnson wrote his first letter as president to Kennedy and told him that he "can always be proud" of his father. Stan Stearns, who took the image, served as chief White House photographer during the LBJ White House years and over the years, showed Johnson the image of Kennedy saluting the casket sine the salute was a symbol of what Johnson said in his letter to him.The family continued with their plans for a birthday party to demonstrate that the Kennedys would go on despite the death of the president.After President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy moved her family, after a brief residency in the Georgetown area of Washington, to a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where Kennedy Jr. grew up. In 1967, his mother took him and Caroline on a six-week "sentimental journey" to Ireland, where they met President Éamon de Valera and visited the Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown. Mother's remarriage In 1968, Jackie took Caroline and John Jr. out of the United States, saying: "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country." The same year, she married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, and the family went to live on his private island of Skorpios. Kennedy is said to have considered his stepfather "a joke". When Onassis died in 1975, he left Kennedy $25,000, though Jacqueline was able to renegotiate the will, and acquired $20 million for herself and her children. In 1971, Kennedy returned to the White House with his mother and sister for the first time since the assassination. President Richard Nixon's daughters gave Kennedy a tour that included his old bedroom, and Nixon showed him the Resolute desk under which his father had let him play. Education Kennedy attended private schools in Manhattan, starting at Saint David's School and moving to Collegiate School, which he attended from third through tenth grade. He completed his education at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After graduating, he accompanied his mother on a trip to Africa. He rescued his group while on a pioneering course, which had gotten lost for two days without food or water, and won points for leadership.In 1976, Kennedy and his cousin visited an earthquake disaster zone at Rabinal in Guatemala, helping with heavy building work and distributing food. The local priest said that they "ate what the people of Rabinal ate and dressed in Guatemalan clothes and slept in tents like most of the earthquake victims," adding that the two "did more for their country's image" in Guatemala "than a roomful of ambassadors." On his 16th birthday, Kennedy's Secret Service protection ended and he spent the summer of 1978 working as a wrangler in Wyoming. In 1979, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was dedicated, and Kennedy made his first major speech, reciting Stephen Spender's poem "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great."Kennedy attended Brown University, where he majored in American studies. There, he co-founded a student discussion group that focused on contemporary issues such as apartheid in South Africa, gun control, and civil rights. Visiting South Africa during a summer break, he was appalled by apartheid, and arranged for U.N. ambassador Andrew Young to speak about the topic at Brown. By his junior year at Brown, he had moved off campus to live with several other students in a shared house, and spent time at Xenon, a club owned by Howard Stein. Kennedy was initiated into Phi Psi, a local social fraternity that had been the Rhode Island Alpha Chapter of national Phi Kappa Psi fraternity until 1978.In January 1983, Kennedy's Massachusetts driver's license was suspended after he received more than three speeding summonses in a twelve-month period, and failed to appear at a hearing. The family's lawyer explained he most likely "became immersed in exams and just forgot the date of the hearing." He graduated that same year with a bachelor's degree in American studies, and then took a break, traveling to India and spending some time at the University of Delhi where he did his post-graduate work and he met Mother Teresa. He also worked with some of the Kennedy special-interest projects, including the East Harlem School at Exodus House and Reaching Up. Career After the 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Kennedy returned to New York and earned $20,000 a year in a position at the Office of Business Development, where his boss reflected that he worked "in the same crummy cubbyhole as everybody else. I heaped on the work and was always pleased." He continued there as deputy director of the 42nd Street Development Corporation in 1986, conducting negotiations with developers and city agencies. In 1988, he became a summer .... Discover the John Jr popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Jr books.
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Killing Reagan
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Playing Dead
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Rising Star
David GarrowNew York Times BestsellerRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the fortyfourth president of the United Statesfrom...
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The Butler
Wil HaygoodThis mesmerizing companion book to the awardwinning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the...
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Rat Pack Confidential
Shawn LevyFor the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank brought his best pals to party in a land called VegasJanuary 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The Stri...
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Let Love Have the Last Word
Common“An insightful memoir that uncovers unique stories about matters of the heart.” EssenceThe inspiring New York Times bestseller from Commonthe Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golde...
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Sinatra and Me
Tony Oppedisano & Mary Jane RossThis intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatrafrom the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his lifefeatures neverbeforeseen photos and new revelations ab...
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The Age of Great Dreams
David FarberIn this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades...
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Forever Young
William Sylvester Noonan & Robert HuberAn intimate portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., from his closest friend with 16 pages of color photos From the iconic image of a little boy saluting his father’s casket to his t...
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His Truth Is Marching On
Jon Meacham & John Lewis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in...
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Jack Kennedy
Chris Matthews“Filled with the vitality and spirit that made Jack Kennedy such a magical figure. Chris Matthews shows the cunning and determination beneath that magic. It’s an awesome and deligh...
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Ethics
Gordon MarinoIn Ethics: The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The phil...
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My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy
Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin HillNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal neverbeforetold stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill’s travels with Jacquelin...
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Defectors
Joseph KanonThe bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and Istanbul Passage “continues to demonstrate that he is up there with the very best...of spy thriller writers” (The Times, UK) with this ...
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Through My Eyes
Tim TebowMeet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion. Even from an early age, Tim has always had the drive to be the best player and person ...
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John L. Loeb Jr.
John L. Loeb Jr.About John L. Loeb, Jr's Reflections, Memories, and ConfessionsBy his own admission, John L. Loeb Jr. was "born with two silver spoons in my mouth." Descended from the founders of ...
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Fairy Tale Interrupted
RoseMarie TerenzioWorking Girl meets What Remains in this New York Times bestselling, behindthescenes story of an unlikely friendship between America’s favorite First Son, John F. Kennedy Jr. and hi...
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Sinatra and the Jack Pack
Michael Sheridan & David HarveyA New York Times BestsellerFrank Sinatra desperately wanted to be part of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s gang. He had his own famed “Rat Pack,” made up of hard drinking, womanizing individ...
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The Bonanza King
Gregory Crouch“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest selfmade Americans…Wellwritten and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the ragstoriches fr...
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The House of Kennedy
James PattersonNow with an allnew bonus chapterin the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to reallife history . . . retelling the political clan’s rise ...
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The Road to Dune
Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert & Frank HerbertThe Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every reader of Dune will want to add to their shelf. Includes neverbeforepublished chapters from Dune an...
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Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance
Mark GreaneyPresident Jack Ryan deals with the worst breach U.S. intelligence has ever suffered in this “compelling and frighteningly realistic” thriller in Tom Clancy’s #1 New York Times...
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The Kennedy Heirs
J. Randy TaraborrelliFrom New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children of President...
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Once in a Great City
David Maraniss“A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry” (Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential Americ...
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What Remains
Carole RadziwillA stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow.What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir a...
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The Kennedy Curse
Edward KleinDeath was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a pl...
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The Sins of the Father
Ronald KesslerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of 20 books about the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA comes the detailed account of the life and times of the ambitious, powerful, masterful...
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Dinners with Ruth
Nina TotenbergCelebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and lifeaffirming relationships, including her beautiful friendsh...
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The Men We Became
Robert T. LittellFor over twenty years Robert Littell was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s closest confidant. Now, in a beautiful and moving memoir, Littell introduces us to the private John. A story of lau...
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Chicka Chicka ABC
Bill Martin Jr.A told B,and B told C,“I’ll meet you at the top ofthe coconut tree.”So begins the lively alphabet rhyme that children and their parents love to recite. Bill Martin Jr and John Arch...
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Note to Self
Gayle KingIn this New York Times bestseller, Gayle King collects her favorite inspiring letters from the popular CBS This Morning segment Note to Self, in which twentyfirst century luminarie...
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How to Invest
David M. RubensteinNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA master class on investing featuring conversations with the biggest names in finance, from the legendary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenste...
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White House by the Sea
Kate Storey“Impeccably researched…captivating!” Elin Hilderbrand “A wellpaced history.” The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating…with new details and wellsourced reporting.” Associated P...
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fa...
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The Road to Camelot
Thomas OliphantA “provocative reconstruction of John F. Kennedy’s ‘fiveyear campaign’ for the White House” (The New Yorker), beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential n...
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Five Days in November
Clint HillSecret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary ...
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Tom Clancy Power and Empire
Marc CameronAs mounting tensions between China and the United States push the world’s two great powers to the brink of war, it falls to President Jack Ryan to identify the lethal chess master ...