Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House Audiobook (Free)

Fifty years following John F. Kennedy’s assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times telephone calls “Kennedy’s leading biographer,” delivers a riveting fresh portrait of the chief executive and his internal group of advisors-their rivalries, character clashes, and politics fights. In Camelot’s Court, Dallek analyzes the mind trust whose contributions towards the successes and failures of Kennedy’s administration-including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Problems, and about Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House Vietnam-were indelible.

Kennedy purposefully put together a dynamic team of advisors noted for his or her brilliance and acumen, including Lawyer General Robert Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, and trusted aides Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger. The very characteristics these men distributed also created razor-sharp divisions. Definately not being unified, this was an uneasy band of rivals whose ambitions and clashing beliefs ignited fiery inner debates.

Robert Dallek illuminates a president deeply determined to surround himself with the very best and the brightest, who often found out himself disappointed using their recommendations. The result, Camelot’s Court: In the Kennedy White House, can be a striking portrait of a innovator whose wise level of resistance to pressure and adherence to theory gives a cautionary tale for our own time.