Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America
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John Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a dream of being the great young leader of their age. But what drove history was the enmity between these two towering figures whose 1960 presidential contest would set the nation's bitter course for years to come. In this startling dual portrait, the author of Hardball shows how the early fondness between the two men degenerated into distrust and paranoia—the same emotions that, in the early '70s, ravaged the nation. of photos.
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