Kennedy Author:Theodore C. Sorenson Ted Sorenson was Special Counsel and confidante to John F. Kennedy. — Excerpt from New York Times book review: — "Tremendously impressive ... certainly one of the fundamental source volumes of our time ... it presents an extraordinarily lucid narrative that systematically covers the great events - from the Senate years to te Presidential primaries... more », the campaigns, the TV debates with Nixon, the Bay of Pigs crisis, the meetings with world leaders, the Cuban confrontation. All that, and so much more. So much that is part of all our lives. "
From Time Magazine:
"This is no mere memoir. It is a monument."
From Newsday:
"Sorenson saw more closely than anyone else the way Kennedy's mind worked, the ideas that were closest to him and the emotions that moved him ... For those who want to know more about what it is like to be President and in particular what the Presidency was like when Kennedy had it, this is the book."« less