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Kennedy
The
Classic
Biography (Harper Classics)
Perennial
Political
Description
A brilliant and essential documentKennedy
The
Classic Biography is
the intimatenational bestseller by JFKs great
advisor Ted SorensenIn Januaryfreshman senator
John F Kennedy of Massachusetts hired a
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twentyfouryearold from Nebraska as his Number Two
legislative assistanton a trial basis Despite the
differences in their backgrounds in the eleven
years that followed Ted Sorensen became known as
Kennedys intellectual blood bank top policy aide
and alter egoSorensen knew Kennedy the man the
senator the candidate and the president as no
other associate did From his role as a
legislative assistant to Kennedys death
inSorensen was with him during the key crises and
turning pointsincluding the spectacular race for
the vice presidency at theconvention the
launching of Kennedys presidential candidacy the
TV debates with Nixon and election night at
Hyannis Port The first appointment made by the
new president was to name Ted Sorensen his
Special CounselIn Kennedy Sorensen recounts
failures as well as successes with surprising
candor and objectivity He reveals Kennedys errors
on the Bay of Pigs and his attitudes toward the
press Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sorensen saw firsthand Kennedys actions in the
Cuban missile crisis and the evolution of his
beliefs on civil rights and arms control First
published inand reissued here with a new preface
Kennedy is an intimate biography of an
extraordinary man and one of the most important
historical accounts of the twentieth centuryIn
all the millions of words which have been written
about the martyred President this book must
remain unique Los Angeles Times