A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Summary

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. recounts the brief presidency of John F. Kennedy from the vantage of an insider who served as a special assistant in the administration. The book moves through the campaign, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and the civil rights struggle, blending firsthand observation with a historian's framing of the era. Admiring yet detailed, it shaped how a generation remembered the Kennedy years and the mood of the early 1960s.