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Jack 1939
by Mathews, Francine
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Nearr Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594487197
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487194
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Charming. Reckless. Brilliant. Deadly. A young Jack Kennedy travels to Europe on a secret mission for Franklin Roosevelt as the world braces for war. It’s the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In Washington, D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term and needs someone he can trust to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy. It’s a surprising selection. At twenty-two, Jack Kennedy is the attractive but unpromising second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain (and occasional political adversary). But when Jack decides to travel through Europe to gather research for his Harvard senior thesis, Roosevelt takes the opportunity to use him as his personal spy. The president’s goal: to stop the flow of German money that has been flooding the United States to buy the 1940 election—an election that Adolf Hitler intends Roosevelt lose. In a deft mosaic of fact and fiction, Francine Mathews has written a gripping espionage tale that explores what might have happened when a young Jack Kennedy is let loose in Europe as the world careens toward war. A potent combination of history and storytelling, Jack 1939 is a sexy, entertaining read.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63501
- Title
- Jack 1939
- Author
- Mathews, Francine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Nearr Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1594487197
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487194
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012-07-05
- Keywords
- fiction, mystery
Terms of Sale
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
About the Seller
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
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