JFK in the SenateJFK in the Senate
the Pathway to the Presidency
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Current format, Book, 2013, First edition, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsBefore John F. Kennedy became a legendary young president he was the junior senator from Massachusetts. The Senate was where JFK's presidential ambitions were born and first realized. In the first book to deal exclusively with JFK's Senate years, author John T. Shaw looks at how the young Senator was able to catapult himself on the national stage. Tip ONeill once quipped that Kennedy received more publicity for less accomplishment than anyone in Congress. But ONeill didnt understand that Kennedy saw a different path to congressional influence and ultimately the presidency. Unlike Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic leader in the Senate, JFK never aspired to be "The Master of the Senate" who made deals and kept the institution under his control. Instead, he envisioned himself as a "Historian-Scholar-Statesman" in the mold of his hero Winston Churchill which he realized with the 1957 publication of Profiles of Courage that earned JFK a Pulitzer Prize and public limelight. Smart, dashing, irreverent and literary, the press could not get enough of him. Yet, largely overlooked has been Kennedy's tenure on a special Senate committee to identify the five greatest senators in American historyJFKs work on this special panel coalesced his relationships in Congress, and helped catapult him toward the presidency. Based on primary documents from JFKs Senate years as well as memoirs, oral histories, and interviews with his top aides, JFK in the Senate provides new insight into an underappreciated aspect of his political career.
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- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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