JFK

JFK President Kennedy The Profile of Power President Kennedy The profile of Power by Richard Reeves contains six hundred sixty two pages of fascinating material allowing the reader to witness the troubled life of President John F Kennedy. The book was originally printed in 1993 and was considered the best non-fiction book of the year. President Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an in depth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear war abroad to racial unrest at home. While finding the President to be ``intelligent, detached, [and] candid if not always honest,'' Reeves shows him as disorganized, impatient, and addicted to the notion that it was ``brains,'' not ideology or idealism, that counted. Reeves's narrative could use more commentary on how Kennedy either enhanced or diminished his office, as well as a fuller explanation of how his forceful father affected his thinking. But the author excels at examining how the President dealt with the burdens of office--seething at generals' stupidity, picking the brains of all he met, chuckling at the ironies of the kennedy, president, reeves, book, presidency, university, power, first, war, six, richard, profile, political, narrative, life, country, author, american, while, two, television, school, racial, professor, problems, office, non-fiction, might, meredith, made, later, kennedy’s, kennedy's, journalism, john