John Kennedy by Burns, James MacGregor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

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?

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