Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House
&#8220;Dallek&#8217;s portraits of advisers including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Walt Rostow are lapidary, and it is difficult to quarrel with his judgments.&#8221; (The New York Times Book Review)&#8220;Dallek is an assiduous digger into archives. . . . The story of how a glamorous but green young president struggled with conflicting and often bad advice while trying to avoid nuclear Armageddon remains a gripping and cautionary tale of the loneliness of command.&#8221; (Evan Thomas,The Washington Post)&#8220;ThinkThe Best and the BrightestmeetsTeam of Rivals. . . . Dallek is one of the deans of presidential scholarship.&#8221; (Beverly Gage,The Nation)