The Resource Jack and Lem : John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings : the untold story of an extraordinary friendship, David Pitts
Jack and Lem : John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings : the untold story of an extraordinary friendship, David Pitts
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Da Capo Press pbk. edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxi, 356 pages)
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE -- THE EARLIER PERIOD; 1 -- The Ties That Bind (Choate, 1933-35); 2 -- Rebels with a Cause (College, 1935-37); 3 -- Trip of a Lifetime (1937); 4 -- The Restless Years (1938-41); 5 -- Courage Under Fire (War, 1941-45); 6 -- Turning Point (1945); 7 -- Seeking the Torch (1946-59); 8 -- Room at the Top (The 1960 Election); PART TWO -- THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS; 9 -- One Fine Day (The Inauguration, 1961); 10 -- First Friend (1961-63); 11 -- A Touch of Class (1961-63); 12 -- Blood and Tears (November 22-25, 1963)
- PART THREE -- LEM AFTER DALLAS13 -- The Sea Change (1933 v. 1973); 14 -- His Final Years (1963-81); Acknowledgments; APPENDICES; The Kennedys and the Billingses; Timeline; Source Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Isbn
- 9780786732241
- Link
-
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL10325621M
- http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=903796
- https://archive.org/details/jacklemjohnfkenn00davi
- https://samples.overdrive.com/jack-and-lem?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=945053
- http://rbdigital.oneclickdigital.com
- https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=662E8856-0DF8-47A4-9F66-5770C8DE872F
- Label
- Jack and Lem : John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings : the untold story of an extraordinary friendship
- Title
- Jack and Lem
- Title remainder
- John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings : the untold story of an extraordinary friendship
- Statement of responsibility
- David Pitts
- Subject
-
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Friends and associates
- Billings, K. Lemoyne, (Kirk Lemoyne), 1917-1981
- Biography
- Presidents
- Electronic books
- Friendship
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | General
- United States
- Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Billings, K. Lemoyne, (Kirk Lemoyne), 1917-1981
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pitts, David
- Dewey number
- 973.922092
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E842.1
- LC item number
- .P58 2008eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Kennedy, John F.
- Kennedy, John F.
- Billings, K. Lemoyne
- Presidents
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- HISTORY
- Billings, K. Lemoyne
- Kennedy, John F.
- Friendship
- Presidents
- United States
- Label
- Jack and Lem : John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings : the untold story of an extraordinary friendship, David Pitts
- Link
-
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL10325621M
- http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=903796
- https://archive.org/details/jacklemjohnfkenn00davi
- https://samples.overdrive.com/jack-and-lem?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=945053
- http://rbdigital.oneclickdigital.com
- https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=662E8856-0DF8-47A4-9F66-5770C8DE872F
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-344) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE -- THE EARLIER PERIOD; 1 -- The Ties That Bind (Choate, 1933-35); 2 -- Rebels with a Cause (College, 1935-37); 3 -- Trip of a Lifetime (1937); 4 -- The Restless Years (1938-41); 5 -- Courage Under Fire (War, 1941-45); 6 -- Turning Point (1945); 7 -- Seeking the Torch (1946-59); 8 -- Room at the Top (The 1960 Election); PART TWO -- THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS; 9 -- One Fine Day (The Inauguration, 1961); 10 -- First Friend (1961-63); 11 -- A Touch of Class (1961-63); 12 -- Blood and Tears (November 22-25, 1963)
- PART THREE -- LEM AFTER DALLAS13 -- The Sea Change (1933 v. 1973); 14 -- His Final Years (1963-81); Acknowledgments; APPENDICES; The Kennedys and the Billingses; Timeline; Source Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First Da Capo Press pbk. edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxi, 356 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780786732241
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Publisher number
- EB00603041
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)880429147
- Label
- Jack and Lem : John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings : the untold story of an extraordinary friendship, David Pitts
- Link
-
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL10325621M
- http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=903796
- https://archive.org/details/jacklemjohnfkenn00davi
- https://samples.overdrive.com/jack-and-lem?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=945053
- http://rbdigital.oneclickdigital.com
- https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=662E8856-0DF8-47A4-9F66-5770C8DE872F
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-344) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE -- THE EARLIER PERIOD; 1 -- The Ties That Bind (Choate, 1933-35); 2 -- Rebels with a Cause (College, 1935-37); 3 -- Trip of a Lifetime (1937); 4 -- The Restless Years (1938-41); 5 -- Courage Under Fire (War, 1941-45); 6 -- Turning Point (1945); 7 -- Seeking the Torch (1946-59); 8 -- Room at the Top (The 1960 Election); PART TWO -- THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS; 9 -- One Fine Day (The Inauguration, 1961); 10 -- First Friend (1961-63); 11 -- A Touch of Class (1961-63); 12 -- Blood and Tears (November 22-25, 1963)
- PART THREE -- LEM AFTER DALLAS13 -- The Sea Change (1933 v. 1973); 14 -- His Final Years (1963-81); Acknowledgments; APPENDICES; The Kennedys and the Billingses; Timeline; Source Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First Da Capo Press pbk. edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxi, 356 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780786732241
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Publisher number
- EB00603041
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)880429147
Subject
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- Billings, K. Lemoyne, (Kirk Lemoyne), 1917-1981
- Billings, K. Lemoyne, (Kirk Lemoyne), 1917-1981
- Biography
- Electronic books
- Friendship
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | General
- Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Friends and associates
- Presidents
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- United States
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