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John Kennedy : a Political Profile /
The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidency Historian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Indeterminado |
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[Place of publication not identified]
Open Road Media,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Inauguration 1961-A Foreword
- Preface
- I Room at the Top
- To the Land of the Shanties
- Behind the Lace Curtain
- Upward Bound
- No Terrors at Home
- II The Green Bloods
- Canterbury and Choate
- Harvard
- Alone at the Top
- III War and Peace
- Why England Slept
- "Jesus Loves Me"
- War's End
- IV The Poor Little Rich Kid
- Political Baptism
- Free-for-All
- Safe Seat
- V The Gentleman from Boston
- Bread-and-Butter Liberal
- Defying the White House
- A Subject of the Pope?
- Kennedy as a Congressman
- VI Green Blood versus Blue Blood
- The Battle Joined
- By the Left-or Right?
- Battle of the Teacups
- VII The Senator from New England
- The Open Door
- What's the Matter with New England?
- The Girl from Newport
- VIII McCarthyism: The Issue That Would Not Die
- Kennedy and the Liberals
- On the Fence
- "The Honor and Dignity of the Senate"
- "A Reasonable Indictment"?
- IX The Anatomy of Courage
- Grace in a Vacuum
- Profiles in Courage
- The Meaning of Courage
- X Vice-Presidential Politics
- Fight for the Electoral College
- Melee in Massachusetts
- Who but Kennedy?
- The First Hurrah
- XI Senator from the United States
- A Democrat Looks at Foreign Policy
- Civil Rights: A Profile in Cowardice?
- Hooverism and Housekeeping
- XII Swinging for the Fences
- Room 362
- Home Run in Massachusetts
- The Senate as Testing Ground?
- "Victura"?
- XIII Kennedy and the Catholics
- Render unto Caesar?
- Kennedy Takes His Stand
- What Kind of Catholic?
- "No Catholics Need Apply"?
- XIV A Profile in Leadership
- What Sort of Man?
- What Sort of Democrat?
- What Sort of President?
- A Place of Moral Leadership?
- Bibliographical Note
- Chapter Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright Page.