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Cool Jack Kennedy: Adulthood In Modern America

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To have reached adulthood in modern America is to have lived a life haunted by the political trials and fibrillations of Richard Nixon: Commie-hunter in the postwar Congress, globe-trotting veep to an unappreciative Dwight Eisenhower, sweaty television debater overcome by a cool Jack Kennedy, loser even for governor of California, he was nonetheless propelled into a melodramatic presidency in 1968 by the war in Vietnam and the implosion of the Democratic Party. He was and always would be with
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