![]() in World War II, how Bobby Kennedy became attorney general in 1960, and what JFK thought of U.S. ![]() To cite just a few examples, new documents reveal more clearly the cause of the accident that killed Joseph Kennedy Jr. I also took guidance from science writer Jacob Bronowski: "Ask an impertinent question and you are on your way to a pertinent answer." As I worked my way through the records, I was startled by how many fresh things could be said based on the combination of old and new files about the man, his family, and his political career. The availability of new materials-written contemporary documents, telephone and Oval Office tapes, and entire oral histories or parts thereof-seemed ample reason to revisit Kennedy's personal and public lives. Why another Kennedy book? I was asked repeatedly during the five years I worked on this biography. ![]() ![]() Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. ![]()
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