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John Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a dream of being the great young leader of their age. Starting as congressmen in the class of 1946, the two men developed a friendship and admiration for each other that would last for more than a decade. But what drove history, Matthews shows, was the enmity between these two towering figures whose 1960 presidential contest would set the nation's bitter course for years to come. In this startling dual portrait - a modern-day Amadeus, with Nixon as the talented, frustrated, always outdone Salieri to Kennedy's Mozart, the charismatic genius - Matthews shows how the early fondness between the two men (Kennedy told a trusted friend that if he didn't receive the Democratic nomination in 1960, he would vote for Nixon) degenerated into distrust and paranoia, the same emotions that, in the early 1970s, ravaged the nation. Christopher Matthews's revealing book sheds new light on this complicated relationship and the role that it played in shaping America's history.
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Ron Bolman
reviewed Kennedy & Nixon on March 26, 2013 Kennedy & Nixon
Very fun read. Only problem is (like with the Watergate book) it's a little sketchy--could've been longer (like I need another 500+ page book to wade through). Also with this one some of the sketchiness was a bit insiderish--he assumed knowledge I'm not sure I always had. Of course, part of the problem was having to research a friendship (a pretty tough assignment)--and keep one's attention focused on that throughout. But it was beautiful how it worked--and poignant (they really were evidently good pals when they both came up to Congress--and mutual admirers in those salad days). If it had just been a comparison of any two postwar politicians it would've been skippable--but those two in particular...their friendship/wranglings makes a great and sort of haunting structure. And actually, Kennedy was a pretty ruthless sort--and his brother Bobby comes off as a real jerk; plus there was the original dirty trickster Dick Tuck (wasn't he in Midsummer Night's Dream?). Maybe Nixon wasn't quite the monster we thought...there was definitely something to be said about there being a double standard (also thought it interesting that according to Haldeman Nixon never rued the 1962 press conference).
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