'Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years' will be one of the most talked about books of 2007. It tells the inside story of the Kennedy administration, from the perspective of the inner circle of men who served President Kennedy. And it will tell the never-before-told tale of Robert Kennedy's search for the truth about his brother's assassination.
Told in gripping narrative style -- and enlivened by dozens of new anecdotes and revealing disclosures -- 'Brothers' presents a compelling portrait of the Kennedy presidency's heroic, and beleaguered, effort to end the Cold War. The book also offers a poignant picture of the uniquely intimate relationship of Jack and Bobby Kennedy -- and their loyal 'band of brothers'. And, for the first time, the full story of Robert Kennedy's secret, wrenching search to track down JFK's killers before his own assassination is told.
'Brothers' sharply challenges today's fashionable cynical view of the Kennedy administration as a playboy presidency that accomplished little. Instead, it shows that by bravely and artfully outmanoeuvring his own national security team, JFK kept the country out of war and avoided a catastrophic nuclear showdown with the Soviet Union. The book also follows the assassination trail that Robert Kennedy himself pursued after Dallas, as it led him, to his horror, back to the dark corners of American power that were part of his administration portfolio -- US intelligence, Cuba, and organised crime.
