This book investigates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, exploring the evidence, testimonies, and controversies surrounding the event. Journalist Robert Sam Anson examines various theories, inconsistencies in official reports, and the people involved in the investigation. Blending investigative reporting with historical analysis, the book provides a critical look at how the Kenned…
As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger’s close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president “walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and …
As press secretary and close friend to John F. Kennedy, from the early days of the Democratic primary through the Presidential years, Pierre Salinger offers an expert and warmly human perspective on the founding and forg- ing of the New Frontier, and the fan- tastic complexities and pressures that go with being press secretary to the President of the United States. Salinger, a master of the fas…
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor…