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Title: PRESIDENT KENNEDY: PROFILE OF POWER by Richard Reeves ISBN: 0-671-89289-4 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (25 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Spectacular Book
Comment: I just finished Richard Reeves' excellent book about President Kennedy and I enjoyed it very much. I am only 13 years old, so this book took me over month to to read, but I was interested for almost every page. The only part I got bored and uninterested at was the talk about economics. However, I do understand the importance of those sections.
Anyone, no matter how old they are should read this book if they have an interest in history or in Kennedy himself. The book also gives a good picture of how things are done in the White House. My only problem with the book was that it ended so abruptly. I recognize that the book was about kennedy's presidency, but Reeves could have written something at all about the assassination. Overall, this was an excellent book. I am looking forward to reading the Nixon book (Alone in the White House by Richard Reeves) as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reeves Neither Fawns, nor Muck-rakes
Comment: Richard Reeves' book is a welcome addition to the "CamelotYears" genre. Written from the President's perspective,i.e. "a day in the life" type format, this excellent readneither fawns, nor muckrakes, but rather a balanced account of aPresidency that, until this point, has not been examined in anobjective light. Reeves first person perspective shows a president whohad more profile than courage. Inspite of his many gifts, JFK wasdiffident, at best, as President. Reeves book reveals a JFK that wasdriven, almost maniacally, to get to the White House, but once he gotthere was pretty much out of his league. The portrait of a neophytestatesman is obvious when Kennedy makes his first trip to Europe,receives a lukewarm reception from DeGaulle, and is taken to thewoodshed by Nikita Khrushev who, upon seeing the youthful presidentexclaimed "he's younger than my own son." Reeves accountbeautifully illustrates how the rich playboy-president miscalculatesKhrushev; one gets the impression that Kennedy felt that his Sovietcounterpart could be rolled like a Boston Pol. Kennedy came away fromhis first overseas trip as president much chastened. Richard Reeves'book is excellent; well written, well researched, and balanced. Ihighly recommend it. (I've read it twice!!)
Rating: 4
Summary: Revealing insight into presidential decision taking
Comment: President Kennedy did not have the easiest presidency imaginable: big issues abroad including Cuba, Vietnam, Berlin, the nuclear arms race and test ban treaties with Russia and the highly contradictory issue of integration at home were all begging for his attention and often at the same time. This biography gives a good insight into the way decisions were taken and that there is a lot of on-the-job learning involved. It is in a sense shocking to read that the way a superpower is run is not that much different from the way an average manager runs his group of a few people.
I found it slightly disappointing that this biography deals exclusively with the presidency of Kennedy, not his formative years as a student, a soldier and a senator. But all in all a revealing insight into the presidency of a man who, after his assassination, become a posthumous hero.
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Title: President Nixon: Alone in the White House by Richard Reeves ISBN: 0743227190 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Jr., Arthur M. Schlesinger ISBN: 0618219277 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek ISBN: 0316172383 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Conversations With Kennedy by Benjamin Bradlee ISBN: 0393301893 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1984 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy by THOMAS REEVES ISBN: 076151287X Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 10 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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