But while the author does not seek to obliterate the Camelot facade he also avoids portraying Kennedy as a deep-thinking intellectual. Reeves’s approach largely steers clear of sensational revelations about Kennedy’s childhood, his precarious health, his notorious womanizing and the various efforts to hide his menagerie of flaws. During its 662 pages the reader follows Kennedy almost day-to-day (and sometimes moment-to-moment) through his presidency – observing the rush of events through Kennedy’s eyes, from his inauguration up to (but not including) his assassination. Instead, it is a lengthy but free-flowing account of his three years in office, not from the point of view of a historian but from Kennedy’s own perspective. Kennedy nor a traditional review of his presidency. The first things readers of “Profile of Power” will discover is that it is neither a conventional biography of John F. He has served as Chief Political Correspondent for The New York Times, as National Editor and Columnist for New York Magazine and Esquire and was Chief Correspondent for PBS’s “Frontline.” He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at USC. Reeves is a former journalist, syndicated columnist and the author of about a dozen books. “ President Kennedy: Profile of Power” by Richard Reeves was published in 1993.
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