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Simon & Schuster, November 1994
Trade Paperback, 800 pages
ISBN-10: 0671892894
ISBN-13: 9780671892890
Description
President Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an indepth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear war abroad to racial unrest at home.
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Browse Inside President KennedyTime magazine
The best non-fiction book of the year.
Michiko Kakutani
The New York Times
[A] narrative that leaves us not only with a new understanding of Kennedy as President, but also with a new understanding of what it means to be President.
Bruce W. Nelan
Time
Fresh and fascinating material....The Bottom Line: A cool, clear look at the way JFK dealt with his crises.
Geoffrey C. Ward
The Boston Globe
Reeves' portrait of Kennedy and his presidency is both persuasive and compelling; the reader puts it down with the feeling that this is what it must have been like to be at the center of power at a time when the center very nearly did not hold.
Michael Elliot
Newsweek
A magnificent book....Reeves tries "to reconstruct [Kennedy's] world from his perspective." He succeeds triumphantly, forcing us to read the early 1960s in a fresh way.
Bill McKibben
New York Daily News
The power of JFK and of this book is strong enough that it illuminates our present day as well.
Derek Shearer
Los Angeles Times Book Review
President Kennedy...is the best study that I've read of what it's like to be President.
Rory Quirk
The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution
A skillful blend of history and character study....Informative and provocative...Reeves offers the nation's 35th president without adulation and without tears.
Peter Braestrup
Chicago Tribune
An uncommonly cool, compelling portrait of a modern president.
Library Journal, August 30, 2011
...very least stopped Soviet premier Khrushchev from invading West Berlin. VERDICT Robert Dallek’s An Unfinished Life and Richard Reeves’s President Kennedy provide in-depth investigations of Kennedy’s politics, but readers wanting a ...
AFP via Yahoo!, September 4, 2009
...More from Richard Reeves: About The Author: An author and syndicated columnist, Richard Reeves also has made award-winning documentary films. His books include ?President Kennedy: Profile of Power.? LOS ANGELES -- The United ...
Huffington Post, January 16, 2009
...Marilyn Monroe ---haven't been well-documented in previous nonfiction books, from hastily-published muck-rakers to such deservedly-praised histories as Richard Reeves' President Kennedy. Of course, JFK's famous widow hasn't fared much ...
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