Subsequent books have variously cast him as a saint, or were prone to excessive gossip, and a few were written as vendettas for political or personal reasons.
The Independent has stated that earlier works about Kennedy were unimpressive. A committee of three Kennedy associates refused to provide his medical records for decades, but they decided to give Dallek access to them although the book does not have a complete record of his medical history. He sometimes took up to eight medications a day. He used painkillers for his chronic back pain and other medication to treat his Addison's disease. ĭallek recounted Kennedy's medical problems which were controlled by drugs including antispasmodics and antibiotics. Senator, he was one step closer to becoming president. In the mid-1950s, after defeating Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., leaving the United States House of Representatives, and getting elected as a U.S. Other family members, particularly his brother Robert helped in early campaign efforts. Kennedy was heavily involved in his political career, and both helped to finance his campaigns, and arrange effective public relations efforts through his contacts in the press and other media. during World War II eventually paved the way for his political career. The death of JFK's older brother Joseph P. JFK was part of a prominent Boston family that would acquire great wealth and had held political office for two prior generations. Dallek contends that historians have underestimated JFK's achievements, especially in regards to his impressive accomplishments in foreign policy, including his averting nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis and his early steps towards detente with the Soviet Union, which began with his Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of August 5, 1963. Dallek researched JFK for five years, using National Security Archives, oral histories, White House tapes, and medical records in his preparations. The author is a presidential historian who taught at Columbia University and UCLA prior to accepting his professorial role in Boston, and was the author of nearly two-dozen books.
It was written by Bancroft Prize-winning historian Robert Dallek, a prominent History professor at Boston University. Kennedy (JFK), who was assassinated in 1963. Kennedy, 1917–1963 is a 2003 biography of the 35th president of the United States, John F.
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