A veteran journalist who has won the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, and other accolades for work published in journals including The New Republic, The Nation, and The Guardian, Sloyan was a rookie wire service reporter when Kennedy was elected, and his book distills some fifty years of experience and investigation. Drawing on tapes of White House meetings, interviews, and other resources, Sloyan shows JFK in a new light, revealing a deal with Cuba that runs counter to the official story of the missile crisis and showing the president’s complicity in getting rid of South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem.
