Lawrence J. Haas explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America’s empire for more than six decades after World War II.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: September 1939 Part 1 1. “Like Carbonated Water” 2. “My Experience Was the War” 3. “He Was Like a Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Priest” 4. “The Knife Itself Is Still in His Fist” 5. “The Hour Is Late” 6. “If It Wasn’t for the Russians” 7. “Whether a Free Society Can Compete” 8. “R. Kennedy Was Very Upset” 9. “George, You’re Just Crazier Than Hell!” Part 2 10. “I Wouldn’t Be My Grandfather’s Grandson” 11. “Are These People for Real?” 12. “Not by Escalation, but by De-escalation” 13. “We Live in the Same World with China” 14. “Not Very Different Than What Hitler Did to the Jews” Part 3 15. “Dear God, Help Us, This War Must End” 16. “Help Us, Kennedy!” 17. “Nothing More nor Less Than Voodoo Arms Control” 18. “This Year in Be’er Sheva” 19. “The Echoes of My Brother Bob’s Trip” 20. “He’s Not Going to Hug Gerry Adams” 21. “Can’t Be a Bully in the World Schoolyard” Epilogue: What If? Notes Bibliography Index