Long Shadows The Farewell to JFK - Softcover

Author Jim Leeke has a lifelong interest in American, military and naval history. A former Navy intelligence analyst, he attended journalism school at the Ohio State University on the G.I. Bill after the Vietnam War. He is the author/editor of A Hundred Days to Richmond: Ohio's "Hundred Days" Men in the Civil War (Indiana University Press, 1999) and the editor of Smoke, Sound & Fury: The Civil War Memoirs of Major-General Lew Wallace, U.S. Volunteers (Strawberry Hill, 1998; Polyglot Press, 2004). He is also the author of a well-received mystery novel, Sudden Ice (Strawberry Hill Press, 1988); the mass-market edition was a selection in the St. Martin's Press Mean Streets series in 1989. Jim has written for various daily newspapers as a police reporter, features columnist and major-league baseball sportswriter. He covered business and technology issues in Silicon Valley for national trade publications. Jim is now cofounder and partner in Taillight, a marketing communications and advertising firm based in Morgantown, WV. He is also a contributor to Timeline, the Ohio Historical Society magazine.