And people were reassured it would not transform the country.
When it passed, no one blinked, it was anti-climactic.
Actually JFK didn’t write the book; Ted Sorenson wrote most of it, with inputs from the ADL’s Ben Epstein.
Kennedy allegedly only proof read it with redlines.
If anyone thought he had the attention span to write a book, they were mistaken. He had other things to focus on...ask Marilyn or Judy.
Thanks, hadn’t been aware of this with all the accolades heaped on JFK around here. Do you know who wrote this one? I read Theodore White’s Making of the President 1960, and I don’t remember this as part of the campaign It would have occurred in the context of Ike’s Operation Wetback, so I wonder why not