We find out that Kennedy took, at times, sleeping pills, antidepressants, amphetamines, testosterone, and probably a few other drugs that most of us would blanch at taking. So alongside the Cuban Missile Crisis, there are descriptions of crippling back pain relieved mostly by a series of painkilling injections by doctors with questionable credentials. For all the romance of “Camelot” or “The New Frontier,” underneath it all was a man, who was elected at at the age of 43 (the youngest ever elected), who was beset by numerous serious health problems and was treated by physicians in such a way that most of us would rather just take our chances with the local HMO. It’s a unique combination of detailed policy analysis with generous helpings of tawdry (yet, true) details of Kennedy’s life.ĭallek was given unprecedented access to Kennedy’s medical history and what he uncovered there turned out to be what this book will be most remembered for. Robert Dallek, who also has written biographies of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, produced a scholarly biography of a man who was at times heroic, at times hesitant, often sick, and almost always on the prowl for another sexual conquest. Urn:oclc:670792571 Republisher_date 20140106084450 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131230144832 Scanner #35, C-SPAN Historians ranking #6įor a man who had a shorter term in office than all but six other presidents (Barack Obama not included), John Kennedy might be studied and written about more than any other 20th Century president. Urn:lcp:unfinishedlifejo00dall_0:epub:2b324754-6f6d-4f8d-a4db-44435e31c745 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier unfinishedlifejo00dall_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8md1cr9v Invoice 11 Isbn 9780316172387Ģ0116388 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary O元575920M Openlibrary_edition
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