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Jack and Lem - John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship (Paperback) Loot Price: R50
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Jack and Lem - John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship (Paperback): David Pitts

Jack and Lem - John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship (Paperback)

David Pitts

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I'm not that kind of boy," Jack angrily wrote to Lem after his friend made a sexual advance. But Jack didn't end the relationship. From the time John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings met at Choate, until the President's assassination thirty years later, Jack and Lem remained best friends. Lem was a virtual fixture in the Kennedy family who even had his own room at the White House. Drawing on hundreds of letters and telegrams between the two, plus Lem Billings's oral history and interviews with family and friends like Ben Bradlee, Gore Vidal, and Ted Sorensen, award-winning Kennedy scholar David Pitts tells the story of an unusual friendship that endured despite an era of rampant homophobia.

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Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2008
First published: March 2008
Authors: David Pitts
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81623-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
Promotions > March Mayhem Sale > Books > Biography
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LSN: 0-306-81623-7
Barcode: 9780306816239

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