Title

President Kennedy : profile of power

Description

The author offers a study of Kennedy as crisis manager. He presents Kennedy as neither an amoral playboy nor the ruler of Camelot but a poorly prepared president with mediocre congressional experience. Each chapter presents a different day in the administration--a unique format that effectively reveals how Kennedy responded to simultaneous harrowing issues. The Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crises, Vietnam, and the diplomacy of arms reduction illustrate how Kennedy was constrained by the unshakable Cold War fear of monolithic communism. This approachable investigation of Kennedy's use of power provides a thorough, even-handed review of the Kennedy years.

Identifier

464237

671648799

Creator

Reeves, Richard

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1993

Program air date: December 12, 1993.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpaper: Relationship of brothers and father. Charlie Bartlett. Civil Rights. George Thomas--a gift from Arthur Krock. Marilyn Monroe. Missile gap. Assassinate Castro. Bay of Pigs. Berlin--Cuba--Diem--Vietnam. How much RFK oral history is there. Where would you put Kennedy in history? Check other books. Wasn't a fast--1500 words a minute reader p. 671. While England Slept/Profiles in Courage, 668. Drugs: Novocain--year round tan. Implant/Sexual desire. Doc A pills stored around the world. Amphetamines. Murrow--pg 300. Sidey--pg. 280 One hour conversation, p. 436. Fiddle and Faddle--707. Underlinings/notes: FOIA. Most important element of Kennedy--political ambition. Lamb underlines descriptions/perceptions of Kennedy and his actions/comments/attitude toward events. Notes include comments like "did not know what they were doing," "a lie on his health," and issues: "Laos/Vietnam," "Cuba," "missile gap" as well as names: Angie Dickinson, Harris Wofford, Lincoln, Castro.

Subject

"Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963."

"Presidents--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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