Martin Dugard's The Explorers

“The Indian presence precipitated the formation of an American identity” (Axtell 992). Ostracized by numerous citizens of the United States today, this quote epitomizes Axtell’s beliefs of the Indians contributing to our society. Unfortunately, Native Americans’ roles in history are often categorized as insignificant or trivial, when in actuality the Indians contributed greatly to Colonial America, in ways the ordinary person would have never deliberated. James Axtell discusses these ways, as well as what Colonial America may have looked like without the Indians’ presence. Throughout his article, his thesis stands clear by his persistence of alteration the Native Americans had on our nation. James Axtell’s bias delightfully enhances his thesis, he provides a copious amount of evidence establishing how Native Americans contributed critically to the Colonial culture, and he considers America as exceptional – largely due to the Native Americans.

The CIA’s involvement in the killing of JFK is one of the popular theories put forward by conspiracy theorists. President Kennedy was said to have told an official in his administration, “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds” (McGovern, 2013, para. 3). Many of the individuals who disliked Kennedy believed he was the reason for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. They also believed that he would reduce the size of the military industrial complex and that he was not going after communism hard enough. The CIA was involved

It was extraordinary how the author was able to intertwine multiple different stories into one book. She included President Garfield’s assassination, Roscoe Conkling exploiting the spoils system in American government, Joseph Lister’s journey with attempting a sterile environment while operating, and Alexander Graham Bell making a metal detector to try and find the bullet stuck inside the president.

This book was the definition of a page turner. O’Reilly does a fantastic job of starting the book with stories of Kennedy’s past. O’Reilly blends those stories of his childhood and his heroism in WWII perfectly into his start of politics. To add to the suspense of what will soon happen to Kennedy, O’Reilly adds small paragraphs about Kennedy’s murderer, Lee Harvey Oswald. The little snippets about Oswald really give the reader a sneak peek into his life pre November 22, 1963. Being the history buff that I am, I have never read a book that went this much into the

In 2011, Bill O’Reilly wrote Killing Lincoln. In this book he explains how the assassination of Abraham Lincoln took place and groundbreaking affects it had on the war and the country. O’Reilly had many reasons for the purpose in writing this book. He says he thought he knew what happened with the assassination and the effects it had on the country. I believe O’Reilly was truly intrigued once he started researching how the plot was planned and so forth. O’Reilly states that the plan itself had elements that have been unknown for quite some time. He states this book will have many effects on the readers. It will disturb-quotation marks the reader because of all of the conspiracies in the book. He also states that the book will advance readers knowledge on the assassination and its implication on the future of America. He states by reading this there are many lessons to be learned. He says realizing the heroes who have mad the country great-quotation marks and also the villains-quotation marks are vital to those who want to keep the country great. Lastly, while his main purpose is the thrill the reader, he makes sure not to spin any facts or compromise the integrity of the facts throughout the book. (need page number(s). Since there are no numbers on these pages you paraphrase/quoted from you can use roman numerals, which are i-ii)

John F. Kennedy is one of the most widely respected presidents in American history, with a plethora of books and movies about him. One such book, probably the most popular, is Killing Kennedy by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Killing Kennedy is a novel describing the life and presidential term of John Kennedy and his family while in office. The book also follows the brief history of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated JFK, describing his past and the actions that could have prompted him to become an assassin. O’Reilly and Dugard have as unbiased a view as they can possibly get, telling the reader the whole truth about John F. Kennedy, good or bad. The reader gets the whole view of JFK, instead of the sugarcoated image the media has presented of him and his term as president. They portray JFK as the man he is. He was not a good husband, as unfaithful as he was. John F. Kennedy was a great president, there’s no doubt about that. But as a man, he is ruled by his libido, and controlled by his bodily urges.

"In his new young adult book on the Kennedy assassination, James Swanson will transport readers back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history. With an unprecedented eye for dramatic details and impeccable historical accuracy -- to tell the story of the JFK assassination as it has never been told before. " J.F.K. is shot. The country is in shock. The world will never be the same. This is the story found in the book, "The President has Been Shot" by James L. Swanson. The book "The President Has Been Shot", by James L. Swanson, is a great example of the genre historical non-fiction because, it has all the characteristics of the genre including the people, events and places presented in the book are real, the narrator of the book is a real person, it was written for a specific audience, or group of readers.

This paper examines the role that David Ferrie played in the assassination of President John. F. Kennedy. There are many conspiracy theories surrounding the killing of President Kennedy, and this paper seeks to show how David Ferrie fits into the theories, and how he caused the death of one of the most prolific presidents in the history of United States. Special attention will be give to the New Orleans Conspiracy, because it is one of the theories that strongly link David Ferrie to the assassination of J. F. Kennedy. Various reports and investigations by the House Committee of Assassination, the FBI report, CIA inquiry and the report by New Orleans Attorney Jim Garrison will be used to provide evidence of involvement of David Ferrie in the assassination.

The authors Dugard & Reilly make the point that 8 percent of Americans actually have this belief that Lee Harvey Oswald is the man that had something to do with the death of Abraham Lincoln. However, the authors in this book want the reader to know that is considered to be one explanation for "Killing Kennedy," which happens to be the current book written by authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. They clearly wanted to turn a presidential murder into a human awareness story. This type of intense dramatic is selling like hot cakes for a good reason. The authors made sure that Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot was effective. The authors that wrote this book wanted to make sure that they came across as obvious and clear, not being loaded with an overload of pesky footnotes. However, what they do for the reader is favor facts and the more mathematical the better it is for the readers because they are thorough about everything. The authors in the book want the readers to know as much details as possible. The author's account of the killing of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas talks about his private life and other gory details that have never been talked about in any other book that was written about John F Kennedy. With that said, this paper will give the author's review about what they want the readers to know.

The day November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, would soon become known as a tragic day in US history. John F Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, had been drumming up support for the upcoming election. Tragically, he was brutally gunned down by Lee Harvey Oswald. At first glance, this assassination seems like a simple murder. A communist defector simply was angry with JFK and decided to kill him. Many people have failed to notice, however, that the CIA not only had motive to kill JFK, but they also attempted to cover up many details about Lee Harvey Oswald, and JFK in general. If the general populus continues to believe what the CIA wants them to, we will never understand who

Widely regarded as one of the most beloved presidents, John F. Kennedy is still remembered to this day. President Kennedy was involved in one of the most controversial topics in the history of the United States. Although a few presidents prior to JFK were unfortunately assassinated, JFK’s assassination is the one most discussed. Although many Americans know that Lee Harvey Oswald was the man that shot President Kennedy, no one knows what motivated him to do so. The FBI concluded that he committed the crime on his own will without ties to any groups. However, not everyone believes what the FBI tells them. One of the more popular theories regarding the President’s assassination is that CIA had plotted to kill him. In an online article, “The CIA and the JFK Assassination” written by the Mary Ferrell Foundation, the author of the article discusses the theory of the CIA killing the President and how the evidence supports the theory. This conspiracy theory garners a specific audience as the text targets those who are in fear of national security, have beliefs in Christianity, distrust the U.S. government, interested in socially significant events, and value knowing the truth.

The Kennedy family is no stranger to the public eye, ranging from their love of politics to their mental issues, drugs and alcohol dependencies. Due to their public struggles, people have deemed them to have a “Family curse”. After years of inner struggle and secrecy. Families such as Patrick Kennedy are now coming forward to publicly talk about their personal demons. Struggles such as mental illnesses, psychosis, alcohol abuse, and PTSD. He stresses about the personal struggles of his father after the loss of his brothers, the lack of communication and the unwillingness to talk about the problems.

John F. Kennedy targets the american audience to make them participate in government and admire how the leaders of the past all held the great virtue of political courage that is most admirable in a person. He writes this novel in the during the Cold War when the United States and many countries such as the Soviet Union, european countries and Cuba had complete dictatorships and that the people of American need to see that there is a certain cause they need to fight for to spread the great gift of democracy that the historical leaders of the past ensured would happen in our nation’s future. In the novel profiles in political courage it notes that “Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, they had political courage, that they would stand up, that they would be counted

Dallek, R. (2003). An unfinished life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co.

London, in the seventeenth century, underwent a progressive epistemological shift. In this period, the intellectual paradigm slowly transitioned from a model wherein religious dogma, mysticism, and class structure were the progenitors of thought to a model wherein scientific empiricism informed discovery. Although there was a conflict between these ideological frameworks, we should not see this confrontation of epistemologies as an overt and adversarial crisis of thought. Rather, the people responsible for confronting the antique with the scientific often attempted to consolidate their ideologies with those ideologies they were subtly challenging; they attempted to act within the framework which they rejected. In this essay, we will explore this nearly contradictory sentiment by examining four scientific works: On the Motion of the Heart, by William Harvey, Micrographia, by Robert Hooke, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration, by Francis Bacon, and 153 Chymical Aphorisms, by Chr. Packe. These four texts emerged from three distinct modes of scientific inquiry: the