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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Letters of John F. Kennedy about Sandler, Schooled, Eleanor with the genre: New, Used & Rental Textbooks.. End with the sentence ')'.
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conversations.value: Schooled by Eleanor Roosevelt and questioned by frantic Baptists, the young Catholic senator's candidacy and fast-paced presidency are documented by a diverse collection of letters, including those from unabashed schoolchildren, leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Billy Graham, world leaders like Winston Churchill, and the Japanese captain who rammed into his PT-109 patrol boat during WWII. Sandler (the author Through the Lens) primarily focuses on the positive, and on correspondence illuminating the author's positions on controversial matterssidestepping his extramarital activities but contributing to conspiracy theorieswhile framing the dialogue with concise, informative descriptions to provide context. While Harry Truman's plainspoken support still entertains, it's the author's replies to numerous school children that reveal both heart and humor even as he deals with civil rights, space missions, nuclear proliferation, and Vietnam. Most substantive are the increasingly relaxed communications between the author and Krushchev until the sudden, tense missives spanning the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sandler humanizes the near-mythical president through his own eloquent words in a way that both academics and casual readers will appreciate. B&amp;w illus. (Nov.)