Grace and Power - The Private World of the Kennedy White House

For all the superficial opulence and lavish partying of their social circle, we see, therefore, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the burgeoning American civil rights movement from the perspective of an invalid president often barely well enough to appear in public, and a young wife abandoned by her husband's relentless womanising. But in a single brief epoch, they changed the politics and style of America. Forty years on from JFK's assassination, as many people who are far too young to remember it are fascinated by the Kennedys just as much as those who remember exactly where they were. This is the classic account of that time....