The Kennedys

John Kennedy's presidency was not the great triumph that romantic thinkers have always wished it to be. It was flawed throughout both by personal failings and his sexual appetite and by the family's infatuation with style. These weaknesses, inherited from his father, also cast a dark shadow over the careers of his brothers Robert and Edward. In this fundamental reevaluation of the whole Kennedy mystique Garry Wills interrelates the private and political lives of Joseph Kennedy and his three sons.

by Garry Wills

Orbis · First published 1983 · 310 pages