Thus Dallek has significant new ground to break on a range of fronts including but not limited to Kennedy's health, politics, personal recklessness and love affairs. He has also mined many nuggets of key information from the papers of JFK's colleagues, doctors and friends. This is a substantial and significant trove to which Dallek brings a refreshingly critical eye. A master of the art of narrative history, Dallek is also the first biographer since Doris Kearns Goodwin to be granted unrestricted access to key Kennedy family papers (most importantly, the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Papers) in the JFK Library. In this riveting tour de force, Boston University history professor Dallek ( Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973) delivers what will most assuredly become the benchmark JFK biography for this generation.
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