Blaine Johnson's Books

The Kennedy Detail (Enhanced Edition)

JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Gerald Blaine,Lisa McCubbin Hill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Kennedy Detail (Enhanced Edition)

JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Gerald Blaine,Lisa McCubbin Hill

Enhanced with stunning videos and photographs throughout, illustrating the impact of Kennedy’s presidency and death, the true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in full for the first time by the Secret Service agents who were firsthand witnesses to one of America’s greatest tragedies, and have lived for forty-seven years with unresolved guilt and grief. Drawing on the memories of his fellow agents, Jerry Blaine captures the energetic, crowd-loving young president, who banned agents from his car and often plunged into raucous crowds with little warning. Here are vivid scenes that could come only from inside the Kennedy detail: JFK’s last words to his tearful son when he left Washington for the last time; how a sudden change of weather led to the choice of the open-air convertible limousine that day; Mrs. Kennedy standing blood-soaked outside a Dallas hospital room; the sudden interruption of six-year-old Caroline’s long-anticipated sleepover with a friend at home; the exhausted team of agents immediately reacting to the president’s death with a shift to LBJ and other key governmental figures; the agents’ dismay at Jackie’s decision to walk openly from the White House to St. Matthew’s Cathedral at the state funeral. Most of all, this is a look into the lives of men who devoted their entire beings to protecting the presidential family: the stress of the secrecy they kept, the emotional bonds that developed, the terrible impact on agents’ psyches and families, and their astonishment at the country’s obsession with far-fetched conspiracy theories and finger-pointing. A book fifty years in coming, The Kennedy Detail is a portrait of incredible camaraderie and incredible heartbreak—a true, must-read story of heroism in its most complex and human form.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

450

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1451631731

ISBN 13

9781451631739

Twenty Years of Congress

Volume 2

By: James G. Blaine

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Twenty Years of Congress

Volume 2

By: James G. Blaine

Reproduction of the original: Twenty Years of Congress by James G. Blaine

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

601

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3752312858

ISBN 13

9783752312850

1968

The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution

By: Robert C. Cottrell,Blaine T. Browne

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

1968

The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution

By: Robert C. Cottrell,Blaine T. Browne

The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities more fully than previous books. For a time, it seemed as if anything were possible, that utopian visions could be borne out in the political, cultural, racial, or gender spheres. It was the year of the Tet Offensive, the Resistance, the Ultra-Resistance, the New Politics, Chavez and RFK breaking bread, LBJ’s withdrawal, student revolt, barricades in Paris, the Prague Spring, SDS’ sharp turn leftward, communes, the American Indian Movement, the Beatles’ “Revolution,” the Stones’ “Street Fighting Man,” The Population Bomb, protest at the Miss America pageant, and Black Power at the Mexico City Olympics. 1968 was also the year of My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Warsaw Pact tanks in Czechoslovakia, the police riot in Chicago, the Tlatelolco massacre, Reagan’s belated bid, Wallace’s American Independent Party campaign, “Love It or Leave It,” and the backlash that set the stage, at year’s end, for Richard Milhous Nixon’s ascendancy to the White House. For those readers reliving 1968 or exploring it for the first time, Cottrell and Browne serve as insightful guides, weaving the events together into a powerful narrative of an America and a world on the brink.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

311

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1538107767

ISBN 13

9781538107768

The Kennedy Detail

JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Gerald Blaine,Lisa McCubbin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Kennedy Detail

JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Gerald Blaine,Lisa McCubbin

Documents the events leading up to and following the assassination of the thirty-fifth president as revealed by the Secret Service agents who were present, in an account that also draws on letters written by Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath and other previously undisclosed sources.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

449

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439192995

ISBN 13

9781439192993

Modern American Lives

Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945

By: Blaine T. Browne

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Modern American Lives

Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945

By: Blaine T. Browne

The individuals presented in these narrative biographies significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary American life in a wide range of areas, including national politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular and literary culture, sports, and business. The combined biographical/thematic approach is designed to serve two purposes: to present more substantive biographical information, and to offer a fuller examination of key events and issues. The book is an ideal supplement for undergraduate courses on The United States Since 1945, as well as for courses on Modern America and 20th Century America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

386

Publisher

M.E. Sharpe

Published Date

ISBN 10

0765629100

ISBN 13

9780765629104

The Murder of Maggie Hume

Cold Case in Battle Creek

By: Blaine L. Pardoe,Victoria Hester

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Murder of Maggie Hume

Cold Case in Battle Creek

By: Blaine L. Pardoe,Victoria Hester

One brutal murder. Two possible suspects. And a “fascinating . . . puzzling case” that divided a Michigan community (Lansing State Journal). In the summer of 1982, the body of twenty-year-old Maggie Hume was found under a pile of blankets in the closet of her apartment. A Catholic school girl and daughter of a local football coach, Maggie had been raped and strangled. It was the only active murder investigation in Battle Creek, Michigan, suggesting the case would be an easy victory for authorities. Plus, they already had two persons of interest on watch. Maggie’s neighbor, Michael Ronning, confessed to the crime. Yet it was Maggie’s boyfriend, Jay Carter, who failed the polygraph, and whose account of his whereabouts on the night of the murder kept changing. Unfortunately, the Calhoun County Prosecutor’s Office and Battle Creek Police Department couldn’t agree on whom to charge. And the city soon took sides. Cracking open three decades of never-before-seen evidence, this real-life whodunit exposes the dark secrets and tragic infighting that turned the murder of Maggie Hume into an unwinnable contest of wills, egos, politics, and the law—a contest that, to this day, isn’t over.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

170

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

162585059X

ISBN 13

9781625850591

Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad

By: J. Blaine Hudson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad

By: J. Blaine Hudson

Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next 200 years. As the number of fugitives rose, the Southern states pressed for harsher legislation to prevent escapes. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 criminalized any assistance, active or passive, to a runaway slave--yet it only encouraged the behavior it sought to prevent. Friends of the fugitive, whose previous assistance to runaways had been somewhat haphazard, increased their efforts at organization. By the onset of the Civil War in 1861, the Underground Railroad included members, defined stops, set escape routes and a code language. From the abolitionist movement to the Zionville Baptist Missionary Church, this encyclopedia focuses on the people, ideas, events and places associated with the interrelated histories of fugitive slaves, the African American struggle for equality and the American antislavery movement. Information is drawn from primary sources such as public records, document collections, slave autobiographies and antebellum newspapers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

318

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476602301

ISBN 13

9781476602301

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

By: Bruce E. Blaine,Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

By: Bruce E. Blaine,Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity offers a highly accessible examination of diversity to show students how to understand social and cultural differences in today’s society. Taking a psychological perspective, authors B. Evan Blaine and Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley explore how individuals construct their view of social diversity and how they are defined and influenced by it. The book covers traditional topics like categorization and stereotypes, sexism, racism, and social stigma, as well as non-traditional topics like sexual orientation-based prejudice, weight and appearance-based prejudice, diversity on television, and age stereotypes and ageism. The Fourth Edition confronts the credibility crisis that has surfaced in the academic psychological research community by following parameters for the research that is presented.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1544381093

ISBN 13

9781544381091

King of Spies

The Dark Reign of an American Spymaster

By: Blaine Harden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

King of Spies

The Dark Reign of an American Spymaster

By: Blaine Harden

The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing jeeps on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea, then considered a backwater and beneath the radar of MacArthur's Pacific Command. Though he lacked the pedigree of most U.S. spies—Nichols was a 7th grade dropout—he quickly metamorphosed from army mechanic to black ops phenomenon. He insinuated himself into the affections of America’s chosen puppet in South Korea, President Syngman Rhee, and became a pivotal player in the Korean War, warning months in advance about the North Korean invasion, breaking enemy codes, and identifying most of the targets destroyed by American bombs in North Korea. But Nichols's triumphs had a dark side. Immersed in a world of torture and beheadings, he became a spymaster with his own secret base, his own covert army, and his own rules. He recruited agents from refugee camps and prisons, sending many to their deaths on reckless missions. His closeness to Rhee meant that he witnessed—and did nothing to stop or even report—the slaughter of tens of thousands of South Korean civilians in anticommunist purges. Nichols’s clandestine reign lasted for an astounding eleven years. In this riveting book, Blaine Harden traces Nichols's unlikely rise and tragic ruin, from his birth in an operatically dysfunctional family in New Jersey to his sordid postwar decline, which began when the U.S. military sacked him in Korea, sent him to an air force psych ward in Florida, and subjected him—against his will—to months of electroshock therapy. But King of Spies is not just the story of one American spy. It is a groundbreaking work of narrative history that—at a time when North Korea is threatening the United States with long-range nuclear missiles—explains the origins of an intractable foreign policy mess.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0698410157

ISBN 13

9780698410152

Horse Trails to Regional Rails

The Story of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland

By: Jim Toman,Blaine S. Hays

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Horse Trails to Regional Rails

The Story of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland

By: Jim Toman,Blaine S. Hays

The history of public transportation in Greater Cleveland spans two centuries. From the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal to the opening of the new waterfront rapid transit, this book traces the changing contours of a metropolitan area and the modes of transport available to its public.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

382

Publisher

Kent State University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0873385470

ISBN 13

9780873385473

Dazed and Confused

America Confronts the 1970s

By: Blaine T. Browne

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dazed and Confused

America Confronts the 1970s

By: Blaine T. Browne

While historians have revisited every aspect of America history in the tumultuous 1960s, coverage of the following decade is sparse. As America reflects on the 50th anniversary of the 1970s, Blaine Browne reexamines the decade’s major international, political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual developments, giving special attention to how its developments continue to impact American life. He views the decade as a major transitional era, given the death of many of the promises and hopes of the Sixties, the collapse of the post-World War II consensus, and the uncertainties of a new age in which the America might well not enjoy the preeminent global position it had held for the previous quarter century. Growing fundamental economic challenges, as well as concerns about the viability of the nation’s political leadership and democratic institutions added to these anxieties. A general angst permeated national life. Whether readers are reliving the years when they came of age or exploring the 1970s for the first time, Dazed and Confused will introduce the topics and cast of characters who defined this pivotal decade in American life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

319

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1538166100

ISBN 13

9781538166109

Australian Gospel

A Family Saga

By: Lech Blaine

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Australian Gospel

A Family Saga

By: Lech Blaine

From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them Michael and Mary Shelley are Christian fanatics who loathe their fellow Australians – especially their 'foul language, reckless indulgence of alcohol and obsession with idiotic ball sports'. Lenore and Tom Blaine are working-class Queensland publicans raising a large family in a raucous, loving, rugby-league-obsessed home. There's just one problem. The Blaines are foster parents to three of the Shelleys' children, who were removed from Michael and Mary as infants. And the Shelleys are prepared to do anything to get them back. Anything. Australian Gospel is a family saga like no other – heartbreaking, hilarious and altogether astonishing. 'The astonishing tale of a foster family held together by ferocious love and courage. What makes a real family? Whose rights should triumph in battles over a child? Which inheritances can we escape, and which will haunt us forever? All this is explored in an irreverently joyful family saga you'll never forget.' Charlotte Wood 'One of the best writers of his generation.' Benjamin Law 'Blaine's native tongue, an ocker irreverence, gives his writing an amiable charm and reflects the styles of artists such as Tim Winton, Stella Franklin and Helen Garner.' Australian Book Review 'Fact is stranger than fiction but it never arrives fully formed. We need writers like Blaine to do that for us. Here he delivers a rollicking, insightful and moving account of the everyday heavens and hells we make for ourselves, and each other.' Sarah Krasnostein, author of The Trauma Cleaner

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

346

Publisher

Black Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

174382386X

ISBN 13

9781743823866

White Bird

Among the Nez Perce

By: Blaine Wright

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

White Bird

Among the Nez Perce

By: Blaine Wright

White Bird is a work of historical fiction, set to the background of West Central Idaho during the early stages of US military escalation into the Vietnam conflict. The birth of Daniel Knight on the storm ravaged slopes of White Bird Pass during the winter of 1950 presage the reawakening of the "Great Animal Spirits" of ancient Nez Perce lore. Born to a native heritage from a woman of the people, who died in childbirth, and an Anglo-American bloodline from a father, who abandoned him at birth, Daniel comes of age in 1963, unaware of his ties to destiny. In an event-filled one-year span of time, he must forge lasting bonds of friendship, face unforeseen enemies, and learn the true meaning of "courage, honor, and loyalty to love." Tied to destiny's path, Daniel will grow from self-imposed solitude into maturity as a leader of men and a warrior in the greatest traditions of his ancient heritage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

348

Publisher

Page Publishing Inc

Published Date

ISBN 10

1645444074

ISBN 13

9781645444077

Lives and Times

Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865

By: Blaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lives and Times

Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865

By: Blaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled, but also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography. Also Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

335

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

144220060X

ISBN 13

9781442200609

Book's by Blaine Johnson

The Kennedy Detail (Enhanced Edition)

The Kennedy Detail (Enhanced Edition)

Twenty Years of Congress

Twenty Years of Congress

1968

1968

The Kennedy Detail

The Kennedy Detail

Modern American Lives

Modern American Lives

The Murder of Maggie Hume

The Murder of Maggie Hume

Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad

Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

King of Spies

King of Spies

Horse Trails to Regional Rails

Horse Trails to Regional Rails

Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused

Australian Gospel

Australian Gospel

White Bird

White Bird

Lives and Times

Lives and Times

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email