The results were bound to be history, and so they are. Before writing, Robert Dallek, a respected presidential historian at Boston University, received permission from the family's praetorian guard to examine the president's private medical records. In this instance, the material is unexpected and important. films featuring toothy actors laughably overmatched by the rigors of the accent.Įvery few years, a book is published that purports to deliver new findings about some aspect of Kennedy's existence - declassified telephone transcripts, unpublished correspondence or fresh stories from a rumor mill that never stops ginning. And Hollywood shows no sign of winding down its assembly line of mediocre J.F.K. He will inevitably be quoted and requoted at the 2004 convention in Boston, particularly if Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts gets the nod. He retains political currency as well, as anyone will recall who felt the shock of recognition at the crowning moment of the 1992 Democratic convention as the film of Bill Clinton meeting Kennedy rolled. Since youth means money in Ponce de León's America, Kennedy is a hot commodity, always - not merely for an adoring public of nostalgia buffs but for the taste shapers who still draw on his power to sell books, magazines and tabloids. Kennedy is no ordinary subject, and despite the incomprehensible fact that he would have turned 86 this May, he remains perpetually young, frozen in time like a flower pressed into the pages of an old book of poetry.

IT'S not often that a biography makes the front page of The New York Times before it has been published.

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