JFK and his enemies : a portrait of power /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Whalen, Thomas J., 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Subjects:	Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Adversaries. Presidents > United States > Biography. United States > Politics and government > 1961-1963. Politicians > United States.

Table of Contents:

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 Oswald, and the death of a president.