What is in the book
John F. Kennedy was president for 1,036 days. The argument about what those days meant has now run for more than sixty years.
He was the youngest man ever elected to the office and the first Catholic to hold it. He was also in far worse health than any voter knew, ran a foreign policy that twice came close to catastrophe, and was dead at 46. This short biography sets the Camelot story next to the record and shows where the two part company.
- The Addison's disease and the ruined back that were hidden from the public for his whole career
- PT-109, and how a lost patrol boat in the Solomon Islands became a campaign asset
- The 1960 campaign, the first televised debates, and the closest popular vote of the century
- Thirteen days in October 1962, and how close the Cuban missile crisis actually came
- The Bay of Pigs, the first commitments in Vietnam, and the civil rights bill he did not live to see passed
- Dallas, 22 November 1963, and why the arguments about it have never settled
A clear-eyed account of an unfinished presidency: what Kennedy actually did, what he left undone, and why the myth has outlasted the man.
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