Charles Kennedy spent a decade photographing and writing about a Red-tailed hawk, named Pale Male, as well as other wild visitors and residents of Central Park in New York City.
The surgeon who tried to save the lives of both President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald offers his views on the assassination and a possible cover-up. Reissue.
This hands on guide is the only step by step program to teach a care giver how to care for the elderly or disabled at home. This detailed and illustrated program includes chapters on how the body works. medication management, home safety, nutrition, equipment, and even legal issues. Care givers can finally have the piece of mind knowing the safe way to care for the people they love.
A biography of the senator who served as attorney general under his brother's administration and was assassinated during his own Presidential Campaign in 1968.
A hands on guide explaining how to care for someone you love who has dementia. This step by step plan spells out in detail what needs to be done to keep that loved one at home safely.
To Love as God Loves...." is series of love letters from a father to his children during, and after, a terrible divorce. It speaks of his love for them and his torment of not being a regular staple in the lives of his children. The letters also speak of his devotion to his children, his shaken faith in The Lord, and his hope for the future of his children. The novel was inspired by real life events....
New York City's Central Park was both subject and muse for the late poet, amateur naturalist, and photographer Charles F. Kennedy. Friends marveled at his gift for capturing the subtle beauty of nature in his beloved park. At his death in 2004, Kennedy left behind a large body of Central Park-focused haiku and photo essays. The Fish Jumps Out of the Moon: Haiku of Charles F. Kennedy is the first published collection of Kennedy's work. It sparkles with masterful haiku, nature photographs, and enchanting essays. Kennedy's nephew, Steve Kennedy, edited the collection in collaboration with author and poet Dan Guenther. The editors' captivating introduction gives the reader insight into the life and art of Charles Kennedy. We learn that he regularly led groups of kindred spirits on nighttime nature forays into Central Park. The Fish Jumps is a night journey that stretches from twilight to first light. Along the way the reader is treated to exquisite haiku snapshots of classical haiku themes-- the moon, night herons, bats, and fireflies. Owls and spiders haunt the collection's winding paths in stunning photos and essays. The special gems of this collection are rare photographic (and poetic) images of emerald cicadas and of common slugs engaged in luminescent lovemaking.
The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam War Few figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, who established himself as the master of the U.S. Senate in the 1950s and succeeded John F. Kennedy in the White House after Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963. Charles Peters, a keen observer of Washington politics for more than five decades, tells the story of Johnson's presidency as the tale of an immensely talented politician driven by ambition and desire. As part of the Kennedy-Johnson administration from 1961 to 1968, Peters knew key players, including Johnson's aides, giving him inside knowledge of the legislative wizardry that led to historic triumphs like the Voting Rights Act and the personal insecurities that led to the tragedy of Vietnam. Peters's experiences have given him unique insight into the poisonous rivalry between Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy, showing how their misunderstanding of each other exacerbated Johnson's self-doubt and led him into the morass of Vietnam, which crippled his presidency and finally drove this larger-than-life man from the office that was his lifelong ambition.
The famous Red-tailed Hawks of Fifth Avenue in New York City had no greater friend or champion than the late Charles F. Kennedy. The story of Kennedy's relationship with Pale Male, the patriarch hawk, is one of devotion and joy-along with a helping of "flying envy." Pale Male and Family: Essays and Photos of Charles F. Kennedy is Kennedy's previously unpublished homage to the nesting hawks. It includes a foreword by Kennedy's close friend, Frederic Lilien, whose documentary film "The Legend of Pale Male" will have its premiere in the fall of 2009.Pale Male and Family educates and entertains with Kennedy's superb photos and essays that shine with wit, anthropomorphic whimsy, and hawk science. This handsome collection follows the life cycle of young hawks-from small nestlings peering over the nest's edge, to fledging from the nest, to independent hunting in Central Park.Pale Male and Family is the defining tribute to the Red-tailed Toast of Manhattan. Readers will see and hear, in Kennedy's beatific images and metaphors, the wonder with which he beheld the behavior of the red-tails; how he marveled at the hawks' power, resilience, and parenting instincts. Pale Male and Family will enchant bird lovers and nature fans of all ages.
This definitive study of the U.S. Consular Service examines its history from the Revolutionary War until its integration with the Foreign Service in 1924. As a British colony, Americans relied on the British consular system to take care of their sailors and merchants. But after the Revolution they scrambled to create an American service. While the American diplomatic establishment was confined to the world’s major capitals, U.S. consular posts proliferated to most of the major ports where the expanding American merchant marine called. Mostly untrained political appointees, each consul was a lonely individual relying on his native wits to provide help to distressed Americans. Appointments were often given to accomplished authors, with notable members including Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fennimore Cooper, William Dean Howells, Bret Harte, and the cartoonist Thomas Nast. Briefly traces the history of consuls from their creation in Ancient Egypt, this volume sheds light on the significant roles American consuls played throughout history, including in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. This second edition continues the narrative to cover World War I, the Greek disaster in Turkey, and the early years of the Weimar Republic.
Charles Kennedy loved the natural world of Central Park with a singular passion and Owls of Central Park provides the evidence. When he died in 2004 he left behind this remarkable collection of unique photographs, rich essays, field notes, and masterful haiku poems. Owls of Central Park captures the nighttime adventures of Kennedy and his intrepid New York City friends as they explore the habits and intrigues of several owl species in Central Park. The reader will find plenty of hard owl science and history, e.g., visiting a clinic where an owl's cataracts are investigated or in a series of photos that refute the long-standing belief that owls eyes are fixed in their sockets. There is also plenty of high adventure, great photographs, and fine writing. If you are a fan of owls, or of New York City and Central Park, or if you simply love gorgeous nature photos and stories, this is a book you will love.
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