Promises Kept: John F. Kennedy's New Frontier

by Irving Bernstein

A counter-revisionist examination of JFK and his administration, Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Bernstein focuses on administraive and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment,
Medicare, and the Peace Corps. He persuasively argues that Kennedy was indeed a successful president, showing that many of JFK's campaign promises were well on their way to enactment by the time of his assassination, even after two years of dealings with a balky and often hostile Congress, and the
difficulty of working in a political system changing from conservative to liberal.

Genres: History, American History

350 pages, Paperback

First published January 17, 1991

About the author

Irving Bernstein was an American professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and a noted labor historian.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Remember having to read this for a research paper back in college. Not the worst JFK book I've read, but not exactly the best either.