Volume 41, Number 3 · February 3, 1994
Kennedy Up Close
By George W. Ball
President Kennedy: Profile of Power
by Richard Reeves
Simon and Schuster, 798 pp., $30.00
Richard Reeves's book is hard to classify. Presented as a critical political biography, it turns the whole genre on its head. Rather than reciting essential facts and then reaching an informed appraisal of the achievements of President John F. Kennedy, Reeves begins by assessing Kennedy's qualities as a human being, and then describes incidents of the Kennedy administration which he does not specifically relate to that initial assessment.
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