Promises Kept: John F. Kennedys New Frontier: John F.Kennedys New Frontier

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In this brilliant reassessment of the Kennedy years based on primary sources, Bernstein vividly recreates many of the major political and social confrontations of the early '60s, especially the burgeoning struggle for civil rights. He describes the Freedom Ride bus trip that headed south to defy Jim Crow James Farmer and six other blacks were horribly beaten when the bus arrived in Birmingham and the violent riot on the campus of Ole Miss where a young James Meredith, with the backing of Kennedy's Justice Department, the National Guard, and the U.

Army, became the first black ever to register at that bastion of the Deep South. Bernstein also examines Kennedy's determined fight to push through education aid bills, raise the minimum wage, establish Medicare and revitalize the American economy and create full employment.

Kennedy survived the early stumbles of inexperience, Bernstein concludes, to become a master of legislative politics. By November of , he had forged a working relationship with a hostile Congress and made the breakthroughs that would lead to the tax cut, the Civil Rights Act, federal aid for education, and Medicare in and A provocative new account of Kennedy's domestic achievements, Promises Kept is the first of a two-volume study of the social and economic reform programs of the s.

When complete, it will be a signal contribution to our understanding of recent American history. Because so many books focus on JFK's assassination and personal life, Bernstein's fresh look at Kennedy's domestic policies stands out.

He asks the question, "Would Kennedy have been a great president? Considering in turn the major policy decisions--civil rights, taxes, unemployment, education, Medicare, and the Peace Corps--Bernstein traces Kennedy's selection of advisers and directors on each issue, uses the vast quantity of written literature to piece together the president's decision-making process, explains the actions he took, and then calculates the probability that the policy would have been successfully implemented. Bernstein concludes on nearly every issue that JFK's plan would have succeeded.