Kennedy & Nixon

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KENNEDY AND NIXON BY CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS
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I see don’t see the book as a bias but the author is always having something good about the both presidents. The author is just trying to talk about two guys who were once buddies then all of a sudden rivalries in politics, and that they both revolutionized the post war America. I have read some other books about Kennedy and they have explained how careless he was in his high school years, and how he never thought of politics and also how he behaved like a screwed up rich kid in his college years. The author never admitted about this but he at least talked about how charming he was and how every girls liked him.
I agreed with the author when he explained how easily Kennedy got a chance to run in congress in the Democratic Party by his father who was a rich man and he gave the campaign money to make his son run for the Congress. Nixon was not rich like Kennedy but he was very lucky that he got a call from one of his friends asking him to run for the republican party. During Nixon’s run in the Campaign, his family was broke and had to leave their house in California.
I see the author trying to explain the difference between these two former presidents, the author views Nixon as a hard working man that never gives up and has always something to look for and was not really popular much before becoming a president, and Kennedy is a charm, bright young man who does not work as hard as Nixon and also probably not as smart as Nixon might be, but he was a guy who is always popular and gets a lot attention from people, especially women.
The one aspect of this book that really impressed me was the detail the author put into describing the campaign strategies of each man. I don’t find this author as a bias because he actually describes it pretty well and is not totally one sided with his statements. The author does an exemplary job of showin...