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Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calling "Kennedy's leading biographer", provides a riveting new portrait of this chief executive and his interior circle of advisors, their rivalries, personality clashes, and politics battles. In Camelot's Judge, Dallek analyzes the brain trust whose efforts to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration - like the Bay of Pigs, civil protection under the law, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam - were indelible. Kennedy purposefully come up with a strong team of advisors mentioned because of their brilliance and acumen, including Attorney Basic Robert Kennedy, Secretary of Protection Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, National Security Consultant McGeorge Bundy, and respected aides Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger. The very traits these men shared also created razor-sharp divisions. Far from being unified, this is an uneasy band of competitors whose ambitions and clashing beliefs ignited fiery interior debates. Robert Dallek illuminates a chief executive deeply motivated to encompass himself with the best and the brightest, who often found himself disappointed with the recommendations. The effect, Camelot's Judge: Inside the Kennedy White House, is a stunning portrait of your leader whose sensible resistance to pressure and adherence to basic principle offers a cautionary tale for our own time.
