This book written by Robert Dallek is easily the best biography of anyone I have read.
I felt like I was part of his life whilst reading this book.
The medical research is quite extraordinary and it is wonder Kennedy could do anything let alone be a confident president.
I also knew of his womanising and philandering but still wasn't prepared for just how bad he was in this regard. He was very lucky he lived in an era reporters mostly thought this was a private matter.
We get to know he had a great intellectual mind when he wanted to apply it.Other people did not ghost write his books for example.
He was a good politician in that he learnt from his mistakes and he knew which people should be in what positions. He certainly wasn't the closet liberal ( in the US sense ) a lot of people thought he was.
What I found fascinating was how slow he went on domestic issues always believing race issues was a long game.
Do yourself a favour and read the book.
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