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Jeff Greenfield is a senior analyst and anchor for CNN.
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Then Everything Changed : Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics : JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan (2011) 201 Exemplare
If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History (2013) 97 Exemplare
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Kennedy's injuries add to his already compromised spinal health, but he can walk. From there on we see a president who is physically, emotionally weak. Kennedy pays a high price in lack of southern support because of his pro-civil rights legislation.
Living with the fact that his terrible mistake in the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba is a thorn in his side when he seeks another term. His ensuing decisions not to take pro- active stances regarding war label him a soft candidate when he runs for his second term.
Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev in Vienna showed him as an ill-prepared weakling resulting in the Berlin wall. As Kennedy's personal life spins out of control his sexual liaison are now fodder for the a media no longer willing to look the other way.
Overall, I can't recommend this book. It was dry, pedantic and uninteresting.… (mehr)