Prelude to power: growing up Kennedy -- Beating the best: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the 1952 Massachusetts senate race -- A gamblin' man: LBJ and the 1960 Democratic nomination fight -- Looking like a loser: Richard Nixon and the 1960 presidential campaign -- The perfect failure: Fidel Castro and the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion -- To the brink: Nikita Khrushchev and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis -- Taking on Jim Crow: George Wallace and the integration of the University of Alabama -- A lesson to all: J. Edgar Hoover, Lee Harvey Oswalk [Oswald], and the death of a president.
