Kennedy: The Classic Biography (148 page)

The Kennedy Legacy
(1969)

Kennedy
(1965)

Decision-Making in the White House
(1963)

Photograph made from a live television transmission by Telefis Eircann, Dublin, Ireland, during the Presidential visit in June, 1963

“He will stand to those of us who are left as an incarnation of the spirit of the land he loved.”

—John Buchan in
Pilgrim’s Way
,
on the death of Raymond Asquith

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The poem on page 336 is a translation by Robert Graves of a poem by Domingo Ortega, © International Authors, N.V. 1962. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1965 by Harper Publishers.

KENNEDY. Copyright © 1965 by Theodore C. Sorensen. Preface copyright © 2009 by Theodore C. Sorensen.

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Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE 2009 EDITION

PROLOGUE

PART ONE.    The Emerging Kennedy

I    THE MAN

II    THE SENATOR

III    THE POLITICIAN

PART TWO.    The Kennedy Candidacy

IV    THE CONTENDER

V    THE PRIMARIES

VI    THE CONVENTION

VII    THE CAMPAIGN

VIII    THE MARGIN

PART THREE.    The Kennedy Presidency

IX    THE BEGINNING

X    THE KENNEDY TEAM

XI    THE EARLY CRISES—THE BAY OF PIGS

XII    THE PRESS

XIII    THE PUBLIC

PART FOUR.    President Kennedy and the Nation

XIV    THE CONGRESS

XV    THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE

XVI    THE FIGHT AGAINST RECESSION

XVII    THE FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION—THE STEEL PRICE DISPUTE

XVIII    THE FIGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS

PART FIVE.    President Kennedy and the World

XIX    THE OLIVE BRANCH

XX    THE WORLD LEADER

XXI    THE BERLIN CRISIS

XXII    THE ARROWS

XXIII    THE CONTINUING CRISIS

XXIV    THE CONFRONTATION IN CUBA

XXV    THE STRATEGY OF PEACE

EPILOGUE

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

INDEX

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