Kennedy Years, The Jill Abramson, edited by Richard Reeves and New York Times

Building on the success of its Civil War volume, The New York Times has authorised a similar book on the Kennedy presidency based on the Times's unsurpassed coverage of events during those three eventful years from 1961 to 1963. The work of the reporters and analysts at the Times provide an on-the-spot view of events that with historical perspective gain new meaning and understanding, from the dramatic failure of the Bay of Pigs and Nikita Khrushchev's bullying of the young president in Vienna in 1961 to Kennedy's brilliant settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis and his astute negotiating that brought about the first nuclear test ban treaty. This volume provides a serious primary source record of the Kennedy years taken from the most trustworthy of American news organisations. Reading the young David Halberstam's reports from Vietnam, for example, shows how truly chaotic that war-torn nation had become by 1963. At home the coverage by Anthony Lewis of James Meredith's struggle to... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Kennedy Years, The (Jill Abramson, edited by Richard Reeves and New York Times)