The revelations caused a media frenzy when Dallek first revealed his findings late last year.
If the public had known, he never would have been elected." "The problems were hidden from the public. "I came away realizing that Kennedy was much sicker than we had understood," the author says. And yet the image presented to the public was one of youth and "vigah," as the president himself would say. He found the records startling: JFK, it turns out, had long struggled with his health and was on several medications to treat his Addison's disease, back pain, assorted aches, and various side effects caused by his diet of pills. "There's always new material coming out."ĭallek tapped into some of that material - most notably JFK's medical records - in putting together his book. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life" (Little, Brown). "There is no definitive biography," the presidential historian, best known for his two-volume work on Lyndon Johnson, says in an interview at CNN Center to talk about his new work, "John F. Indeed, by now, there must be some definitive summation of his life. He has been glorified and vilified, sanctified and mummified, until we know more about the grassy knoll than we do about our own back yards. His administration has been placed on a pedestal his life has been splashed in the gutter.
The 35th president has been all but exhumed since he was assassinated in 1963 at age 46. (CNN) - Is there anything left to say about John F.
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