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President Kennedy : profile of power / Richard Reeves.
LIBRA E842 .R358 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Kennedy, John F.
- United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Local Subjects:
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 798 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [1993]
- Summary:
- The author offers an excellent 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has Simon & Schuster card laid in, which reads "With Compliments, Richard E. Snyder."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Reeves, Richard, 1936- President Kennedy.
- ISBN:
- 0671648799
- 9780671648794
- OCLC:
- 28257477
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