The Crumbling of Camelot
Peter Riddell
- Kennedy v. Khrushchev: The Crisis Years 1960-63 by Michael Beschloss
Faber, 816 pp, £18.50, August 1991, ISBN 0 571 16548 6 - A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Reeves
Bloomsbury, 510 pp, £19.99, August 1991, ISBN 0 7475 1029 6
In his memoirs Roy Jenkins describes John Kennedy as the best President of the USA in the past four decades. It is a curious, not to say unfashionable verdict. The demolishers of the Kennedy legend have been carrying all before them in the past few years. So battered is the Kennedy reputation that it is almost time for a new school of revisionist historians to rehabilitate the myth of Camelot on the Potomac. Almost, but not yet. Michael Beschloss’s absorbing and authoritative study of US-Soviet relations from January 1961 until Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963 adds significantly to the case amassed by the demolition squad.
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