Articles Related to John F. Kennedy

So Much to Lose by William J. Rust

July 29, 2014

In So Much to Lose: John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos (University Press of Kentucky, 376 pp., $40) William J. Rust offers a meticulous account of President John F. Kennedy’s vacillating actions toward Laos…

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JFK in the Senate by John T. Shaw

November 29, 2013

John T. Shaw 's JFK in the Senate: Pathway to the Presidency (Palgrave Macmillan, 228 pp., $26) is a well-written, pioneering look at President John F. Kennedy's 1953-60 tenure as the junior U.S. Senator from…

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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews

June 6, 2012

One of the big "what ifs" of the presidency of John F. Kennedy is the question of what JFK would have done in Vietnam had he lived. Kennedy, an ardent cold warrior but a realist…

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