JFK, Conservative, Ira Stoll
JFK, Conservative, Ira Stoll
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JFK, Conservative

Author: Ira Stoll

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2013

Synopsis

John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws. His champions insist he would have done great liberal things had he not been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. But what if we have completely misunderstood him? What if we judge him by the lengthy record of his actual political career? His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth. His tax cuts, his domestic-spending restraint, his military buildup, his emphasis on free trade and a strong dollar, and his foreign policy all make him, by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative. Ira Stoll convincingly argues that JFK had more in common with Ronald Reagan than with LBJ. Not every Republican is a true heir to Kennedy, but hardly any Democrats deserve that mantle. JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readersand will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons.

About Ira Stoll

Ira Stoll is vice president and managing editor of the New York Sun, which he helped to found. A graduate of Harvard University and president of the Harvard Crimson, Stoll has also been a consultant to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, managing editor and Washington correspondent for the Forward, and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brent on November 30, 2015

One of the first things I did was to collect some JKF quotes from this book; his official records and speeches, and then played the who-do-you-think-said-this game. This is not hard to do, since Kennedy wrote most of all his speeches. According to Davis, his secretary, "When he wanted to write a spe......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 18, 2014

Unconvincing arguement. one of the greatest issues that was left completely alone is a deffinition of terms. what the author views as conservitive is more than likely not what anyone else feels a conservative is. More over political terms change over time. JFK fascinates us becuase of his charisma a......more

Goodreads review by Audrey on February 26, 2020

Interesting, but wish it was a bit more organized. I thoroughly enjoyed the beginning but somewhere in the middle my attention was lost in the jumble of facts. Glad I finished it nonetheless.......more

Goodreads review by Yelena on November 03, 2024

While it was a fascinating read, it was so so disjointed and repetitive.......more

Goodreads review by Hatuxka on December 21, 2015

Dilatory on Civil Rights, devoutly pro-Israel, rabidly anti-communist to a degree that he stubbornly against all warnings, fathered the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy was a better model for Reagan, who quoted him and emulated his rhetoric more than any other politician in the 20th Century, along with o......more

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