Whalen, Thomas J., 1964- author.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014];©2014
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Prelude to power: growing up Kennedy — Beating the best: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the 1952 Massachusetts senate race — A gamblin’ man: LBJ and the 1960 Democratic nomination fight — Looking like a loser: Richard Nixon and the 1960 presidential campaign — The perfect failure: Fidel Castro and the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion — To the brink: Nikita Khrushchev and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — Taking on Jim Crow: George Wallace and the integration of the University of Alabama — A lesson to all: J. Edgar Hoover, Lee Harvey Oswalk [Oswald], and the death of a president.

Subjects:

• Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 — Adversaries.
• Presidents — United States — Biography.
• United States — Politics and government — 1961-1963.
• Politicians — United States.

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