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Authors: Ted Sorensen

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Kennedy: The Classic Biography (148 page)

The Kennedy Legacy
(1969)

Kennedy
(1965)

Decision-Making in the White House
(1963)

Photograph made from a live television transmission by Telefis Eircann, Dublin, Ireland, during the Presidential visit in June, 1963

“He will stand to those of us who are left as an incarnation of the spirit of the land he loved.”

—John Buchan in
Pilgrim’s Way
,
on the death of Raymond Asquith

The poem on page 336 is a translation by Robert Graves of a poem by Domingo Ortega, © International Authors, N.V. 1962. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1965 by Harper Publishers.

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First Perennial Library edition published 1988.
First Harper Perennial edition 2009.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN 978-0-06-196784-9

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Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE 2009 EDITION