A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years

Ralph G. Martin

A portrait of one of the most best loved & most hated presidents in American history, whose appetites for power & sex were equally consuming, & who is more controversial in death than he ever was alive.
Prologue
Let the word go forth
The passing of the torch
The young years
Growing up Kennedy
The playboy congressman
The luckiest girl in the world
Scenes from a marriage
A moment of magic
The man who would be president
The path to power
The primaries: the tide turns
Winning the nomination
All in the family: the Kennedy campaign
The Kennedy/Nixon debates
You can call him Mr President now
A year of crisis
The pay is good & I can walk to work
An elegant first lady
The men behind the president
The other women
The Bay of Pigs: an early challenge
The growth of a president
The man who came with Jacqueline Kennedy
Grace under pressure
See the new frontiersman run
The uncrowned queen
A marriage in crisis
The brothers: Jack & Bobby
Ambassador Jacqueline
The patriarch
Teddy: the godson
The times of trial
The missiles of October
Goodnight Mrs Kennedy, wherever you are
Ich ben ein Berliner
Vietnam: the looming crisis
Human rights/civil rights
A rekindled tenderness
Rendezvous with death
November 22, 1963. The myth & the magic
Aftermath
Reflections
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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