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Kennedy: The Classic Biography (Harper Perennial Political Classics)
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A brilliant and essential document about the man, the President, and his times. In all the millions of words which have been written about the martyred President, this book must remain unique. . . . It is John F. Kennedys life, his personality, his thinking which informed his action and that action itself described with honest and candor which illuminate and enliven the crowded pages of this book. Sorensen has managed to portray Kennedy in realistic human terms and not as the hero of a myth. . . . It is the richness of detail, anecdotes, incidents, conversations, descriptions rather than any gossip or startling revelations which gives the book its compelling readability. Los Angeles TimesThe classic, intimate, and #1 national bestselling biography of JFK by his great advisor Ted Sorensen.In January 1953, freshman senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts hired a 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 ego.Sorensen 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 in 1963, Sorensen was with him during the key crises and turning pointsincluding the spectacular race for the vice presidency at the 1956 convention, 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 Counsel.In 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 in 1965 and 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 century.
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