The Kennedy Imperative
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Bought this for my son, who was in the Dallas area for the recent Kennedy 50 Year Anniversary Memorial.  He is enjoying it a lot, and says he recommends it highly.
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This book was very inspirational! I found it fascinating and very insightful to the Kennedy era. A must read!
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This is a very readable and enoyable book by a man who was involved at the core of JFK's decision-making process.  Starting with a history of his family's background and proceeding through his life with Kennedy from his election as Senator till his death and beyond Kennedy, Sorensen weaves a story of being involved at many levels of recent American history.  It is a  treasure trove for students of recent American history as well as a great source of information for the everyday American.
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As the other reviewers have said this magnificent retelling of the Kennedy Years and the hateful, murderous forces  aligned against them is a must read. New material will reveal U.S. Government involvement in both Kennedy murdres ***** Stars
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James W. Douglass has done a remarkable job of making it clear why and by whom John Kennedy was murdered. Mr. Douglass uses 96 pages of reference to document his account of events. Recent documents released by the U.S. Archives as well as documents released from the archives of the former Soviet Union are disclosed to us in a well written and easy to follow narrative which is gripping. It is important for every American to know how our secret government operates that not even a popular president was able to overcome.

Once begun, I could not put this book down.

I recommend this book be read by every American and be on the reading lists in all of this nation's high schools.
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This book discusses President Kennedy's Assinations lasting influnance in the Democratic Over reach that shape our country even today . For Good or Ill most of the Social reforms of the 1960's would not have happened had JFK lived into a second term . LBJ used the heart breaking loss of JFK to pass a liberal agenda that would have otherwise been impossible . The seeds of The Tea Party were sewn in the 1960's . A good read for everyone who wants to understand how we got where we are today.
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This book was AWESOME!!!!!  The thoroughness and clarity are unmatched.  It brings to light several factors that are not well known regarding the Kennedy's lives.  President Kennedy was gone long before I was born and I find him an intriguing man to study.  The authors do a superb job giving the reader a clear picture of the man and his presidency.
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This was such a great read.  It hold your interest all the way through.  It had so much information and made Kennedy become real.  Not just a president but a real person.
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Camelot's Court is a new book about dealing with the men (no women)) who advised President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63)during his one thousand days in the White House. Dr. Robert Dallek the distinguished biographer of Kennedy, Nixon and Kissinger and Lyndon Baines Johnson is the author. The book is a coda to the Kennedy biography published as the United States in 2013 remembers the JFK assassination in Dallas and the lost hopes for progress which died with Lee Harvey's bullet to the body of Kennedy.
  The book packs a punch as it takes a hard look at the dangerous times in which Kennedy was called to lead America. Unlike President Eisenhower a world respected leader who had years of military and presidential command under his belt, Kennedy was new to high office after two terms in the House of Representatives and one full term in the United States Senate. Kennedy had definite liabilities as he entered the testing ground that is the Oval Office. Among them were:
a. Kennedy was in terrible health due to a number of life threatening conditions. JFK was heavily medicated with much of his day spent in pain.
b. The new president was a serial adulterer who would have been destroyed by scandal.
c. Kennedy's chief interest was in foreign affairs, He lacked a domestic agenda.
d. President Kennedy was a bookish intellectual adverse to the usual persona of hale fellow well met which is the usual persona of politicians.
e. Kennedy had a difficult relationship with Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. Johnson hated Bobby Kennedy who served as JFK's attorney general and closest advisor.
  The major challenges facing the new Democratic Kennedy team include:
a. Arms reduction and nuclear non-proliferation agreements with the Soviet Union. The Cold War was as its apogee.
b. The Cuban missile  crisis in which JFK and his team stared the Soviets down forcing Khrushcev to remove the nuclear weapons which had been installed in the Castro Communist controlled island just ninety miles from Florida. This was the greatest crisis faced by Kennedy. It came months after the failed CIA backed Bay of Pigs disaster which ended in total defeat
c. Kennedy moved slowly on African-American civil rights. His administration did produce a voter rights bill which became the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
d. The administration had to deal with the Diem regime in South Vietnam which was losing the civil war against the Vietcong.
e. Kennedy had to deal with the situation in Berlin which was controlled from Moscow and was over one hundred miles  inside
Communist governed East German.
f. Kennedy had to deal with the military Joint Chief of Staffs who were hawkish and bellicose in their parlous dealings with the Soviets.
  Kennedy's team was diverse and combative! Hawks such as Secretary of State Robert McNamara; John McCone at CIA; Dean Rusk
the waffling Secretary of State were eager to see the US invade Cuba and escalate the war in Vietnam. Men like George Ball and Senator Mike Mansfield urged caution in escalating Vietnam.
  Much of the book deals with the opinions of the advisors around JFK. Dallek paints a nuanced portrait of a young president who was growing in office when he was gunned down in Dallas.
  This is one of the best books on Kennedy I have ever read which I expect from Robert Dallek's keen insight into Kennedy at a crucial time in our nation and the world's history. This is an excellent book on the Kennedy administration that will become a classic. Highly recommended!
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Mr. Corsi does an excellent job of outlining the players and circumstances surrounding Kennedy's death and in the process lays the foundation of a much larger mystery in our laps.  Though not specifically mentioned anywhere in the book itself it is obvious from the key words, patterns of speech and benchmarks Mr. Corsi is attempting to guide the reader towards the ultimate revelation.

ILLUMINATI

The parallels between JFK's murder and the murders of Tupac and Biggie cannot and will not be denied any longer.  How long will the American people continue to be blinded?  Happy walking the primrose path swilling energy drinks made from human embryos and watching giant TV's equipped with medulla oblangatamatrons!  Devices specifically designed to make us amicable to the idea of sitting down to pee.  WAKE UP AMERICA!  The King is Dead and so is Kennedy and Tupac and Biggie all great men, all enemies of the ILLUMINATI.
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This is a very good novel about the Kennedy assassination. He is a good novelist. go and get it now.
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Interesting and thought provoking. The author theorizes that Lee Harvey Oswald could have been acting as an agent of the KGB  and the USSR could have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy using Oswald to carry out that task  Although this is not a new theory, the presentation of critical facts combined with the author's experience and insights as a CIA employee and security expert give some new reasons to consider this possibility.  Cross examines Oswald's actions leading up to the Dallas shooting and focuses on various letters Oswald had written to support his hypothesis.  This is a quick,easy to read piece that is  worthwhile for anyone interested in Kennedy assasination theories.  .
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This book is a must for all Kennedy Assassination buffs. It answered a lot of questions for me. Please read it!
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Gerald Posner's landmark book destroys many of the myths surrounding the JFK killing and places the focus where it rightly belongs-on Lee Harvey Oswald.
The former Wall Street attorney devotes nearly half of his book  to a biography of Oswald. He shows that when you strip away the vast  assortment of oddball theories and conjecture at the end of the day what is  left is a clear picture of Oswald's guilt.
Posner also includes a chapter  on the Single Bullet Theory that is exhausive and totally convincing,  adding supplemental material to bolster his asscertions. This LSC edition  also corrects a few errors contained in the original hardcover version and  offers updated information as well
Every American should read this book  BEFORE seeing the film "JFK" and/or reading some of the books it  was based on. Very highly recommended!
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This book is important and profound;  amazing how it  will also  inspire you to take positive action now to save and restore our country.  RFK continues to inspire today.  He fought so hard for all the right things and that is what we need now.  Read the words of impressive  people who tell how RFK and his values deely
influenced  and impacted their lives (then and now): amazing Q and A interviews with President Obama, Congressman and hero John Lewis, George Clooney, Gloria Steinem, Al Gore, Tim Cook,
Delores Huerta, President Clinton, Bono and many others.
  So much human history here about Bobby Kennedy than was never known, and Kerry Kennedy has done a masterful job and created a very important book.
This will recharge  you to work to make our country better NOW.  Perfect gift book, too.  I know the author  and she's the real deal.
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I worked for Mr. Kennedy as he prepared this book, and was grateful for his insights and warnings about how this came about in the first place. Well worth your time.
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As I reported before if you are interested in the Kennedy's personal lives this is a good book and fills the bill.