num_pages: 608
description: A portrait of one of the most best loved &amp; most hated presidents in American history, whose appetites for power &amp; sex were equally consuming, &amp; who is more controversial in death than he ever was alive.PrologueLet the word go forthThe passing of the torch The young yearsGrowing up KennedyThe playboy congressmanThe luckiest girl in the worldScenes from a marriageA moment of magic The man who would be president The path to powerThe primaries: the tide turns Winning the nomination All in the family: the Kennedy campaign The Kennedy/Nixon debates You can call him Mr President nowA year of crisisThe pay is good &amp; I can walk to work An elegant first lady The men behind the presidentThe other women The Bay of Pigs: an early challengeThe growth of a presidentThe man who came with Jacqueline KennedyGrace under pressure See the new frontiersman runThe uncrowned queen A marriage in crisis The brothers: Jack &amp; BobbyAmbassador Jacqueline The patriarch Teddy: the godsonThe times of trialThe missiles of October Goodnight Mrs Kennedy, wherever you areIch ben ein Berliner Vietnam: the looming crisisHuman rights/civil rightsA rekindled tendernessRendezvous with death November 22, 1963. The myth &amp; the magicAftermath ReflectionsNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
language: English
title: A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years
titlecomplete: A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years
genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics, Presidents, Biography
ratings_count: 90
publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company (NYC)