by Garry Wills
risk-taking of, 32–35, 131
sexual attitudes and behavior of, 16–34, 54
style of presidency, 141–150, 165–174, 176–187, 219–231
Kennedy, John, Jr., 111
Kennedy, Joseph, Jr., 10, 21, 44, 46, 129
Kennedy, Joseph, Sr.
attitude toward Irish heritage, 62–71
health of, 19, 33
inclusion of “honorary” family members by, 85, 89
influence on sons, 47, 53, 169, 174
involvement with entertainers, 20, 22–25
“isolationism” of, 76–77
public relations of, 127–131, 138–139
relationship with wife, 40–43
sexual attitudes and behavior of, 16–26
Kennedy, Kathleen, 18, 19, 27, 29, 31, 45, 46, 48, 72–74
Kennedy, Matthew, 46
Kennedy, Patricia. See Lawford, Patricia Kennedy
Kennedy, Patrick, 7
Kennedy, Patrick Joseph, 63
Kennedy, Robert
assassination of, 299–300
attitude toward J. Edgar Hoover, 36–38, 204
Attorney General position and, 55, 84, 88–89
charisma of, 207–211
civil rights and, 208–210
foreign policy and, 236, 247–254, 256–257, 267–270, 280–281
involvement with entertainers, 20, 141
Lyndon Johnson and, 189–190
presidential campaign (1968) of, 54, 85, 86, 87, 89–110, 118, 151
relationship with brothers, 9–10, 45–46, 155, 288
relationship with “honorary” Kennedys, 84–98
sexual attitudes of, 16
Kennedy, Rose, 7, 17, 40–44, 63, 70, 76, 290
Kennedy, Rosemary, 127–128
Keough, Rosemary, 55
Khrushchev, Nikita, 266, 269, 271
King, J. C., 225
King, Martin Luther, 36, 37, 54, 148, 208–209, 288, 300–301
Kirbo, Charles, 195
Kirkpatrick, Lyman, 248
Kissinger, Henry, 194, 263
Knebel, Fletcher, 87
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 55, 117–119, 158
Krock, Arthur, 20–21, 43, 61, 66, 77, 85, 87, 111, 129–131, 135, 137
Laffer, Arthur, 289
LaFollette, Robert, 83
Lance, Bertram, 195
Landis, James, 85, 88–89, 112, 129, 130, 135
Lansbury, George, 79
Lansdale, Edward, 35, 251–253, 285
Larner, Jeremy, 93–94, 102
LaRosa, Ray, 116, 118
Laski, Harold, 129, 130
Lasky, Victor, 154
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy, 20, 39, 42, 45
Lawrence, Bill, 85
Lawrence, T. E., 72, 76, 83
LeMay, Curtis, 212
Lessard, Suzannah, 57
Lewis, Anthony, 85
Liebenow, William, 132
Lifton, David S., 214
Linowitz, Sol, 195
Lippmann, Walter, 149, 150, 266
Lipton, Thomas, 63
Long, Huey, 201
Lowell, Robert, 100
Lucas, Peter, 155
Luce, Henry, 77–78, 130, 131, 149
Lynch, Clayton, 229
McCarthy, Eugene, 91–103
McCarthy, Joseph, 47, 82, 101, 128
McCormack, Eddie, 33
Macdonald, Torbert, 32, 45, 46
McDonnell, Charlotte, 18, 29–30, 33
McGovern, George, 101
McGrory, Mary, 153
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 239, 241, 257
McLaughlin, Edward, 17–18
MacLeish, Archibald, 156
McMahon, Patrick, 131
Macmillan, Harold, 29
McNamara, Robert, 86, 90, 103, 121, 138, 167–168, 190–191, 204, 267, 273, 279
McPherson, Myra, 49, 141
Magsaysay, Ramon, 251
Maguire, John, 132
Mailer, Norman, 21–22, 28, 72, 145, 149, 163
Manchester, William, 37, 104–109, 111, 148, 154, 189, 213–214
Mankiewicz, Frank, 91
Mao Zedung, 170, 201
Markham, Paul, 116–121
Marshall, Burke, 85, 88, 91, 109, 120–121, 214, 215
Martin, John Bartlow, 85
Mayo, Bernard, 136
Melbourne, Lord (William Lamb), 15, 24, 29, 73–74, 83, 150
Meredith, James, 209
Mills, Donald, 158
Monroe, Marilyn, 20, 141
Morgenthau, Henry, 76
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 201
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 16, 18–19, 32, 34, 297
Moyers, Bill, 87, 191, 210
Moynihan Daniel Patrick, 203
Mudd, Roger, 85, 151–153, 156
Mussolini, Benito, 201
Navasky, Victor, 36–37, 84, 86, 88, 89
Neal, Steve, 16
Neustadt, Richard, 163–164, 165, 175–177, 186, 241
Nevins, Alan, 135
Newberg, Esther, 46, 55, 117
Newfield, Jack, 85, 86, 91, 103, 210
Ngo Dinh Diem, 192, 251, 281–283
Nichols, Beverly, 79
Nikoloric, Leonard, 31
Nixon, Richard, 53, 149, 151, 157, 185, 192–194, 200, 211–212
Nock, Albert Jay, 71
Nunnerly, David, 72, 74–75
O’Brien, Lawrence, 95, 212–214
O’Connor, Edwin, 61, 62, 65
O’Donnell, Kenneth, 22, 23, 33, 62, 70, 87, 91, 154, 213–214
Olsen, Jack, 117
Onassis, Aristotle, 48
Ormsby-Gore, David, 74, 165
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 299
Paquet, Wilfred, 159
Parmet, Herbert, 31, 46, 61, 136, 137
Pawley, William, 233
Phillips, David, 221, 224
Pitcairn, Mary. See Keating, Mary Pitcairn
Powell, Jody, 184, 195
Powers, David, 33, 62, 213
Powers, Gary Francis, 35
Powers, Thomas, 220, 252
Rafshoon, Jerry, 294
Randolph, John, 83
Rayburn, Sam, 168
Reagan, Ronald, 196–198, 205–206, 291–292
Reardon, John, 142
Reardon, Ted, 29
Reed, James, 30
Reston, James, 241
Rhodes, Cecil, 75
Rizzo, Frank, 287
Robertson, Cliff, 134
Rochester, Lord (quoted), 31
Rockefeller, Nelson, 33
Ronstadt, Linda, 47
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 65, 76, 78, 164, 170, 177–178, 199–202
Roosevelt, James, 33
Rose, Earl, 213–214
Ross, Barney, 132–133
Rostow, Eugene, 90, 261–262
Rostow, Walt, 90, 165, 219, 240, 248, 250–251, 284
Ruckelshaus, William, 179
Rusk, Dean, 147, 165, 166, 172, 236, 237, 281
Ryan, Elizabeth (“Toodles”), 34
Salazar, Antonio, 201
Salinger, Pierre, 90, 105, 106, 236
Schiff, Dorothy, 70
Schlesinger, Arthur, 36, 69, 74, 77, 85, 90, 92, 97, 102, 107–109, 118, 135, 140–150, 165, 168, 183, 235–238, 244, 264, 282–284
Seberg, Jean, 140
Seigenthaler, John, 91, 106, 107
Shaw, Maude, 154
Shepherd, Dick, 79
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 17, 34, 39, 43–45, 128
Shriver, Sargent, 39, 49, 87, 210
Shrum, Robert, 290
Sidey, Hugh, 85, 91, 143, 167, 173, 179, 180, 279
Sinatra, Frank, 20, 22–23, 28, 31, 34, 141
Skakel, Ethel. See Kennedy, Ethel Skakel
Smathers, George, 30
Smith, Bromley, 165
Smith, Howard, 168
Smith, Alfred E., 64
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 45
Smith, Stephen, 49, 121
Sorensen, Theodore, 61, 90, 96, 108–109, 113,
118, 121, 135, 136, 140, 143–144, 157, 166–168, 171–173, 179–180, 234–236, 243, 268, 273–274
Southwick, Tom, 4, 151
Spalding, Betty, 24–25, 39
Spalding, Charles, 32
Stalin, Joseph, 201
Stammers, Katherine, 30
Steel, Ronald, 272–273
Steele, Walter, 159
Stern, Isaac, 142
Stevens, Thaddeus, 83
Stevenson, Adlai, 90, 94, 99, 141, 147, 148, 175–177, 186, 236, 267
Stimson, Henry, 184
Strachey, Lytton, 75
Sutton, Billy, 30
Swanson, Gloria, 17, 20, 23, 40–42, 65–67, 127
Taylor, A. J. P., 171
Taylor, Maxwell, 89, 149, 232, 243–247, 250, 284
Thorn, Kate, 44
Thomas, Evan, 106–109
Thompson, R. K. G., 282
Tierney, Gene, 23
Timilry, Joe, 112
Tretter, Charles, 116, 117, 119
Truman, Harry, 105, 286
Tunney, John, 288
Tweedsmuir, Lord. See Buchan, John
Ulascewicz, Tony, 192
vanden Heuvel, William, 97, 121
Vanocur, Sander, 85
Vidal, Gore, 112
von Hoffmann, Nicholas, 193
Waldrop, Frank, 20
Walinsky, Adam, 91, 93
Wallace, George, 6, 203, 212
Waring, Fred, 141, 142, 143
Warnke, Paul, 191
Washington, George, 5, 170, 186
Weber, Max, 170, 182, 202
Whalen, Richard, 64
Wheeler, Earl, 234
White, Byron, 88, 247
White, John, 31, 72, 76
White, Theodore, 11, 85, 91, 175, 178–180, 184
Whitworth, William, 261
Wiggins, Warren, 209
Will, George, 290
Willens, Howard, 88, 107
Williams, Andy, 20
Willkie, Wendell, 77, 78, 130
Wisner, Frank, 220, 221
Witcover, Jules, 92–93
Wofford, Harris, 35, 37, 87, 147, 208–209, 210, 234, 236, 254
Wyden, Peter, 220, 222, 226, 229, 233, 234, 248–249
Yarmolinsky, Adam, 191
Young, Andrew, 195
Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to the following for permission to quote: The Search for JFK by Joan and Clay Blair, Jr., Berkley Publishing Corp., 1976. Reprinted by permission of Berkley, the authors, and Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
“For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration,” from The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1961, 1962 by Robert Frost. Copyright © 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Publishers.
To Move a Nation by Roger Hilsman. Copyright © 1964, 1967 by Roger Hilsman. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. and The Lantz Office Incorporated.
Why England Slept by John F. Kennedy (Funk & Wagnalls). Copyright © 1961 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
Presidential Power by Richard Neustadt. Reprinted by permission, from Presidential Power by Richard Neustadt. Copyright © 1960, 1976, 1980 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Copyright © 1978 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Copyright © 1965 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
Kennedy by Theodore C. Sorensen. Copyright © 1965 by Theodore C. Sorensen. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
About the Author
Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and the author of more than forty books, including New York Times bestsellers Reagan’s America (1987), Lincoln at Gettysburg (1992), Papal Sin (2000), What Jesus Meant (2006), and hy Priests? (2013). A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Wills is professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University. He is a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the National Humanities Medal in 1998. Wills lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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