One of Ourselves - (Images from the Past) by James Carroll (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A detailed daily chronicle of President Kennedy's visit to Ireland in late June 1963.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Independent Publisher Award Finalist, and Winner of the Silver Award from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association for editorial content, interior and cover design, this book is the richly detailed story of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland.</b> Follow along to each of the places he visited, meet the people he met, and relive the events and proceedings - some more chaotic than anticipated -that honored the first Irish Catholic American president.</p><p>Exhaustively researched from written and oral sources, the book unspools a memorable tale of a joyful presidential tour that was one of the highlights of JFK's life and presidency and that cemented a bond with a land and people who were then taking their first steps on the global stage.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>...When Kennedy came to call in 1963, he embraced his local popularity with all the enthusiasm of a You're a Star winner returning to his home village. The president's appearances, says...James Robert Carroll, took on 'the enthusiasm and hysteria usually associated with movie and pop stars.' Carroll has just published an exhaustive and detailed account of Kennedy's visit, which the president later described as the three happiest days of his life. Even allowing for the fact that he was amongst friends, did not have to face angry protesters and was not responsible for an unpopular war that might have put his security at risk, it is clear from the book that the access he allowed to the members of the public was staggering.--Diarmuid Doyle "The Dublin Sunday Tribune"<br><br>A compelling, deftly-written examination of Kennedy's trip to Ireland in 1963, the book reveals myriad aspects - both personal and political for Kennedy - of the three-and-a-half day stop in his ancestral homeland...That Kennedy's visit was symbolic on several levels materializes throughout the book, but what sets Carroll's work apart from all other accounts of the trip is the focus upon how Kennedy embraced his Irish roots so publicly, more so than he ever had.--Peter F. Stevens "Boston Irish Reporter"<br><br>Ireland, 1963: a country at last on the verge of taking its place in the politics and economy of the modern world provides an extraordinary homecoming to a favorite son, President John F. Kennedy. Exhaustively researched, this book tells a memorable tale.-- "Read Ireland Book Store"<br><br>On the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's historic visit to Ireland, Washington journalist James R. Carroll penned a detailed account of that trip in a delightful book, One of Ourselves. JFK's 1963 trip to his ancestral homeland affirmed for the Irish that after centuries of struggling to forge a separate political identity, Ireland had truly emerged on the world stage. One of its grandsons had become president of the United States of America, and now walked easily among them. We came to regard the president as one of ourselves, though always aware that he was head of the greatest nation in the world today, Irish President Eamon de Valera would say later. We were proud of him as being one of our race." Technically, the Irish aren't a race, of course, and only the day before his visit, the American president had made very nearly the opposite point by declaring himself a West German. John Kennedy's Ich bin ein Berliner speech was an electric moment at the time, and still constitutes a watershed moment in Cold War history. Yet it is Kennedy's nostalgic tour of the Emerald Isle that his successors have emulated.--Carl M. Cannon "Real Clear Politics"<br><br>One of Ourselves: John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Ireland by professional journalist James Robert Carroll is a informed and informative study of American President Kennedy's three and one-half day visit to Ireland in June of 1963. 44 black-and-white photographs and prints nicely illustrate the president's 'homecoming' and its meaning at the time to both Americans and the Irish alike. Meticulous attention to detail enhances a superbly written text in bringing to life this particular and unique intersection of human heritage and national office. No personal, academic, or community library Kennedy Studies collection can be considered complete without the inclusion of James Robert Carroll's One of Ourselves!-- "Midwest Book Review"<br><br>Those who recall that historic visit will be spun back through the years to three amazing days in June 1963. And for the rest of us - it is no harm to be reminded of many innocent, simple, sometimes deeply funny, incidents which passed into legend and are remembered still, detailed in this fine book.--Mary O'Sullivan "Ireland of the Welcomes"<br><br>Though it claimed its independence 41 years earlier, Ireland was anything but a routine diplomatic stop. Kennedy wasn't only the first American leader to visit Ireland. He was the first leader of any significant country to visit Ireland since independence...An official Irish government memo said Kennedy 'stole the show.' Kennedy himself showed a side of himself that had not been seen in America, wrote James Carroll, the Washington correspondent for the Louisville Courier Journal who five years ago authored a detailed, hour-by-hour examination of the trip, One of Ourselves: John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Ireland. The president who was always cool and reserved at home was expressive and emotional in Ireland; the man who was never heard singing at home because he had such difficulty carrying a tune sang loudly - and off key - in Ireland; the man who felt he had to avoid overt shows of Catholicism at home made the Sign of the Cross in Ireland - the only time he was seen doing that in public during his presidency.--George E. Condon, Jr. "National Journal"<br><br>You don't have to be Irish to love this account of JFK's 1963 pilgrimage to his ancesters' land. Affectionately, but thoroughly, Carroll confirms what Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. says of that visit: 'I imagine (Kennedy) was never easier, happier, more involved and detached, more completely himself.--Keith Runyon "The Louisville Courier-Journal"<br>
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