This is an easy read and one that I had a difficult time laying down. I remember JFK when he was President, and the backstories that Chris Matthews' shares gives the enlightenment that I was seeking to better understand Kennedy's leadership style and how it developed through his early years. Tell...
This book provided a great amount of information into the background of Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan’s rise to power. Matthews worked as a speech writer for President Jimmy Carter and was an aid to Speaker Tip O’Neill so he is writing as an insider. Matthews’s eyewitness account of the collaps...