List of Illustrations Prologue A Happy Family The Kennedy Children & Their World Period of Adjustment A Harvard Man The First Book The War A Hero in the South Pacific Joe The Second Son Emerges A New Candidate Portrait of a Congressman America's Younger Statesman To the Senate The Senator from New England The Senator & the World Dismal Days Profiles in Courage Madly for Adlai Preparing for Chicago The Showdown at Chicago The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Senator Human Rights Labor Reform The Perfect Politician Emphatic Reelection Courting the Liberals The Literary Campaign The Labor Trap Taking the Step Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index

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