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<p>As reassessment of Kennedy for the popular audience largely carries on in terms of hagiography or talebearing, some scholars are more quietly at work to fashion a dispassionate appraisal. A good sampling of research is this collection of 23 papers from a 1985 conference at Hofstra University. The topics, varied if not perfectly balanced encompass the missile crisis, fiscal policy, and other standard questions, as well as less traveled ground such Indo-American relations and the influence of William Lederer and Eugene Burdick's <i>The Ugly American</i> on the era. The conclusions are varied too, with Kennedy appearing neither a saint nor a scoundrel. <i>Library Journal</i></p> <p>The introduction looks at Kennedy as president and as politician, and establishes the two realms, myth and substance, in which the subsequent examination of Kennedy's life and career will be conducted. His presidency is then divided into the broad categories of foreign policy and domestic policy. Within these categories the suceeding chapters touch on the major controversies and conflicts of the Kennedy years in office, from the question of his religion, which clouded the candidacy, to his final days in

Author

Paul Harper and Joann P. Krieg; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University

Publisher

Greenwood Press; Praeger

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313262012

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities