Promises Kept: John F. Kennedy's New Frontier

Bernstein, Irving

ISBN 10: 0195082672 / ISBN 13: 9780195082678

Published by Oxford University Press, 1993

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing. Seller Inventory # BSM.V76N

Synopsis:

This is a counter-revisionist examination of John F. Kennedy and his administration, which presents a policy history of major US legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Irving Bernstein focuses on administrative and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment, Medicare and the Peace Corps. He contends that many of Kennedy's campaign promises were well on their way to being enacted by the third year of his first term. The author also declares that many of Kennedy's objectives, later achieved by Lyndon Johnson, would have been brought to fruition by Kennedy himself had he not been assassinated. He supports this argument by tracing Kennedy's selection of advisers and directors on each issue, piecing together his overall decision-making process through original written sources and previously published works, and calculating the probability that the policy would have been successfully implemented.

About the Author:
About the Author
Irving Bernstein is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His works includeThe Lean Years, Turbulent Years and A Caring Society--an acclaimed trilogy on the American worker in the era of the Great Depression.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Promises Kept: John F. Kennedy's New Frontier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good