A mile-wide credibility gap.
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This book has too many things wrong with it to list. It says alot that Hersh could devote 14 pages to the scandal of the 'first marriage' without one shred of genuine evidence.
The worst part of the book is the chapter on the Cuban Missle Crisis. Hersh has a thesis- Kennedy wanted a showdown, he wouldn't give Khrushchev a chance to back down - and uses whatever 'logic' he can to prove it. This theory is undermined by several, far-more trustwothy, sources. As Taubman's excellent biography on Khrushchev shows, the Soviet leader didn't have a fall-back position once the existence of the missles had ben discovered. Moreover the tapes of the EXCOMM meetings certainly don't show much bravado from the Kennedy brothers. The whole situation was just a chaotic ,and extremely dangerous, series of reponses and counter-responses. This is NATIONAL ENQUIRER level- history. Avoid
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A new angle on an old story
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There are few people who don't have some idea about the real man behind the president. The true extent to which power corrupted is quite amazing to discover. This account of JFK's election and presidency is well written and researched. However near the end it begins to feel like a Kennedy bash, Little or no positive points are mentioned. Well worth a read, if only to put events such as the 'Bay of pigs', 'Cuban missile crisis' in there true context.
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Ask not what you can do for your President...
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This is the defining book illustrating how America divorces the President from the Presidency.. The Presidency is inspired while the President is flawed. A lesson for the voter to elect the vision.
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Ask not what you can do for you President...
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This is the defining book illustrating how America divorces the President from the Presidency.. The Presidency is inspired while the President is flawed. A lesson for the voter to elect the vision.
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So much scandle in such a short life!
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Men wanted to be like him, women wanted to be with him. And most of them were! This book charts the amazing private world of Jack Kennedy where anything was possible and he got whatever he wanted which involved the Mafia, Marilyn, Sinatra and the Brat Pack, assasination attempts on Castro, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Cuban Missile Crisis, alleged buying of the elections, the cover up of his first marriage and the endless womanising from all the male members of the Kennedy's. All this from a man who was trusted by millions and is still seen by many as one of the best loved US presidents.
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