Reviews

"Think "The Best and the Brightest" meets "Team of Rivals." . . . Dallek is one of the deans of presidential scholarship."--Beverly Gage, "The Nation" Dallek s portraits of advisers including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Walt Rostow are lapidary, and it is difficult to quarrel with his judgments. --"The New York Times Book Review"" Dallek is an assiduous digger into archives. . . . The story of how a glamorous but green young president struggled with conflicting and often bad advice while trying to avoid nuclear Armageddon remains a gripping and cautionary tale of the loneliness of command. --Evan Thomas, "The Washington Post"" Think "The Best and the Brightest" meets "Team of Rivals." . . . Dallek is one of the deans of presidential scholarship. --Beverly Gage, "The Nation"" Dallek brings us closer to the complexity and the humanity of Kennedy s geopolitics, and helps us grasp the uncertainties he and his men faced in an abbreviated presidency. --"USA Today"" "Dallek brings us closer to the complexity and the humanity of Kennedy's geopolitics, and helps us grasp the uncertainties he and his men faced in an abbreviated presidency."--USA Today "Think The Best and the Brightest meets Team of Rivals. . . . Dallek is one of the deans of presidential scholarship."--Beverly Gage, The Nation "Dallek is an assiduous digger into archives. . . . The story of how a glamorous but green young president struggled with conflicting and often bad advice while trying to avoid nuclear Armageddon remains a gripping and cautionary tale of the loneliness of command."--Evan Thomas, The Washington Post "Dallek's portraits of advisers including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Walt Rostow are lapidary, and it is difficult to quarrel with his judgments."--The New York Times Book Review