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- English
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About this book
In this compelling, smart, and well-researched dual biography, Chris Matthews shows how the contest between the charismatic John F. Kennedy and the talented yet haunted Richard Nixon propelled America toward Vietnam and Watergate.
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon each dreamed of becoming the great young leader of their age. First as friends, then as bitter enemies, they were linked by a historic rivalry that changed both them and their country. Fresh, entertaining, and revealing, Kennedy & Nixon reveals that the early fondness between the two men—Kennedy, for example, told a trusted friend that if he didn’t receive the Democratic nomination in 1960, he would vote for Nixon—degenerated into distrust and bitterness. Using White House tapes, this book exposes Richard Nixon’s dread of a Kennedy “restoration” in 1972 drove the dark deeds of Watergate.
"Matthews tells his stories well, and Americans have a seemingly bottomless need to have these stories retold" (The New York Times Book Review).
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon each dreamed of becoming the great young leader of their age. First as friends, then as bitter enemies, they were linked by a historic rivalry that changed both them and their country. Fresh, entertaining, and revealing, Kennedy & Nixon reveals that the early fondness between the two men—Kennedy, for example, told a trusted friend that if he didn’t receive the Democratic nomination in 1960, he would vote for Nixon—degenerated into distrust and bitterness. Using White House tapes, this book exposes Richard Nixon’s dread of a Kennedy “restoration” in 1972 drove the dark deeds of Watergate.
"Matthews tells his stories well, and Americans have a seemingly bottomless need to have these stories retold" (The New York Times Book Review).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Dramatis Personae
- Introduction
- Students
- Chapter 1: World War II Was Their Greatest Campaign Manager
- Chapter 2: Strangers on a Train
- Chapter 3: While Kennedy Slept
- Chapter 4: The Castle or the Outhouse!
- Chapter 5: Cloth Coats and Lace Curtains
- Chapter 6: Hall Mates
- Chapter 7: Profiles in Ambition
- Chapter 8: Two Men on Third
- Chapter 9: Kennedy Versus Nixon
- Chapter 10: The Great Debate
- Chapter 11: Bearing Any Burden
- Chapter 12: The Verdict
- Chapter 13: If
- Chapter 14: Bay of Pigs
- Chapter 15: Coup de Grâce
- Chapter 16: Diem
- Chapter 17: Dallas
- Chapter 18: Eternal Flame
- Chapter 19: The New Nixon
- Chapter 20: 1968
- Chapter 21: Haunting
- Chapter 22: Escalation
- Chapter 23: Interlude
- Chapter 24: Targeting Teddy
- Chapter 25: Smoking Gun
- Chapter 26: Kennedy Versus Nixon—Again
- Chapter 27: Death of a Presidency
- Epilogue: Twilight Struggle
- Afterword: The White House Tapes
- Photographs
- Picture Credits
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright