Description |
viii, 783 pages : portrait ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Part One. The emerging Kennedy -- The man -- The senator -- The politician -- Part Two. The Kennedy Candidacy -- The contender -- The primaries -- The convention -- The campaign -- The margin -- Part Three. The Kennedy presidency -- The beginning -- The Kennedy team -- The early crisis : the Bay of Pigs -- The press -- The public -- Part Four. President Kennedy and the nation -- The Congress -- The man in the White House -- The fight against recession -- The fight against inflation : the steel price dispute -- The fight for equal rights -- Part Five. President Kennedy and the world -- The olive branch -- The world leader -- The Berlin crisis -- The arrows -- The continuing crises -- The confrontation in Cuba -- The strategy of peace. |
Subject |
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
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