• Kennedy will join The Making of the President 1960 and The Making of the President 1964 in Harper Perennial’s new Political Classics series.

• Sorensen has agreed to write a new preface for this edition.

Ted Sorensen knew Kennedy the man, the Senator, the candidate, and the President as no other associate did from—from his hiring as a legislative assistant to Kennedy’s death in 1963. He was with him during the key crises and turning points—including the spectacular race for the Vice Presidency at the 1956 convention, the launching of Kennedy’s Presidential candidacy, the speech to the Protestant clergy of Houston, the TV debates with Nixon, and election night at Hyannisport. The first appointment made by the new President was to name Ted Sorensen his Special Counsel.

In Kennedy, Sorensen relates the role of the White House staff and evaluates Kennedy’s relations with his Cabinet and other appointees. He reveals Kennedy’s errors on the Bay of Pigs and his attitudes toward the press, Congress, and the Joints Chiefs of Staff. Sorensen saw firsthand Kennedy’s actions in the Cuban missile crises and the evolution of his beliefs on civil rights and arms control. Kennedy is a perceptive biography of an extraordinary man, and one of the 20th century's most important sources of history.