This is an easy read and one that I had a difficult time laying down. I remember JFK when he was President, and the backstories that Chris Matthews' shares gives the enlightenment that I was seeking to better understand Kennedy's leadership style and how it developed through his early years. Tell...
This book provided a great amount of information into the background of Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan’s rise to power. Matthews worked as a speech writer for President Jimmy Carter and was an aid to Speaker Tip O’Neill so he is writing as an insider. Matthews’s eyewitness account of the collaps...
—Ernest Hemingway Jack Kennedy had faced death often in his life. He’d spent much of his teenage years with doctors examining him, saying what an “interesting” case he presented. Leukemia, even, was mentioned. He never did manage to escape the knot he felt in his stomach, a chronic ...