Sabato, Larry

On the anniversary of President John Kennedy's assassination,celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato--himself a teenager in the early 1960s and inspired by JFK and his presidency--explores the fascinating and powerful influence Kennedy has had over five decades on the media, the general public, and especially on each of his nine presidential successors. A recent Gallup poll gave JFK the highest job approval rating of any of those successors, and millions remain captivated by his one thousand days in the White House. For all of them, and for those who feel he would not be judged so highly if he hadn't died tragically in office, The Kennedy Half-Century will be particularly revealing. Sabato reexamines JFK's assassination using heretofore unseen information to which he has had unique access, then documents the extraordinary effect the assassination has had on Americans of every modern generation through the most extensive survey ever undertaken on the public's view of a historical figure.

Argues that the only way to restore equity for all American citizens is to make radical revisions to the Constitution, and proposes twenty-three resolutions that could change American government and society for the better.

Contains more than 450 alphabetically arranged entries that examine key concepts related to electoral politics in the United States, covering topics such as absentee voting, campaign ethics, election fraud, machine politics, recall, and many others.