![]() With skill and balance, Dallek illuminates a president deeply determined to surround himself with the best and the brightest, yet who often found himself disappointed with their recommendations. ![]() Far from unified, JFK's brain trust was an uneasy band of rivals whose personal ambitions and clashing beliefs ignited fiery debates behind closed doors. Yet the very traits these men shared also created sharp divisions. ![]() Kennedy purposefully put together a dynamic team of advisers noted for their brilliance and acumen, including Attorney General Robert Kennedy, JFK's "adviser-in-chief" Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara Secretary of State Dean Rusk National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy and trusted aides Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger. In Camelot's Court, he takes an insider's look at the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration-including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam-were indelible. Kennedy, the man and the leader, as never before. In his critically acclaimed biography An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek revealed John F. ![]() ![]() Kennedy's assassination comes this riveting, authoritative portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisers-their rivalries, their personality clashes, their political battles-from one of our most distinguished presidential historians In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of John F. ![]()
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