ther affected his thinking. But the author excels at examining how the President dealt with the burdens of office--seething at generals' stupidity, picking the brains of all he met, chuckling at the ironies of the political game. Reeves account beautifully illustrates how the rich playboy-president miscalculates Khrushev. Neither Camelot elegy nor scathing revisionism--but the kind of cool, dispassionate narrative that JFK himself might have appreciated. Richard Reeves, Visiting Professor of Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, is an author and syndicated columnist who has made a number of award-winning documentary films. His ninth book, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, was chosen by Time magazine as the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993. His other best-selling books include Convention and American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America. He was named the Regents Professor of Political Science at UCLA in 1992. And has taught political writing at

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