The enthralling previously untold story of the friendships and forces that shaped the Kennedy presidencyIn the summer of a tall raw-boned Harvard student arrived in London where his father was the American ambassador and his favorite sister Kick had gained entre to a closed group of young aristocrats In the run-up to World War II as Winston Churchill called on a reluctant Britain to resist Adolf Hitler before it was too late Jack Kennedy formed bonds of friendship and family that would forever change his life and the course of American historyDrawing on many new primary sources this book is the first to trace the dramatic arc of Kennedys intellectual and political formation and to detail the goals of his presidency as he saw them For the first time we get an intimate picture of a leader torn between politics and principle a president wrestling with private demons and unresolved conflicts dating back to the s when Churchill and Ambassador Joseph Kennedy were adversaries on the public stage pages of photographs.
