In January, 1953, freshman Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts hired a 24-year-old Unitarian from Nebraska as his Number Two legislative assistant - on a trial basis. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, Theodore Sorensen in the eleven years that followed became known as Kennedy's "intellectual blood bank," "top policy aide" and "alter ego." Three months to the day after Dallas, Sorensen left the White House to write the account of those eleven years that only he could write. He admits at the outset the bias of so personal a memoir. yet the recounts failures as well as successes with surprising candor and objectivity - producing not only a perceptive biography of ann extraordinary man but one of the most important sources of history in this century.
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