The No.1 New York Times Bestseller In January 1961, as the cold war escalates, J
ohn F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of communism while he learns the
hardships, solitude and temptations of what it means to be president of the Unit
ed States. At the same time, JFK acquires a number of formidable enemies, among
them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Allen Dull
es, director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Then, in the midst of a 1963
campaign trip to Texas, a sequence of gunshots kills a beloved president and se
nds America into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-cha
nging aftermath. A page-turner from beginning to end, Killing Kennedy chronicles
both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life fifty years af
ter the most notorious crime of the twentieth century. 'Immersively written ...A
powerful historical precis' Janet Maslin, The New York Times
