1961-1963

"Recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964"--Provided by publisher.

Posits that John F. Kennedy was not killed by a lone assassin.

An expose of the CIA's inner workings in Cuba during the 1950s and 1960s reveals the Agency's efforts to halt opposition to Fidel Castro after the Cuban Revolution and install a CIA-friendly figurehead in Castro's position, documenting the contributions of King Ranch proprietor Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and the mysterious disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos.

A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of the 35th President's final months examines his considerable roles in advancing civil rights and the Limited Test Ban Treaty, recounts the death of his premature infant son and considers what might have occurred had he not been assassinated.

In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. After just three days on the job, the privileged but sheltered young woman was presented to the President himself. Almost immediately, the two began an affair that would continue for the next eighteen months. Emotionally unprepared to counter the President?s charisma and power, Mimi was also ill-equipped to handle the feelings of isolation that would follow as she fell into the double life of a college student who was also the secret lover of the most powerful man in the world. After the President?s assassination in Dallas, she grieved alone, locked her secret away, and tried to start a new life, only to be blindsided by her past.

Drawing upon hours of newly released White House tapes and dozens of interviews with people close to Johnson, this biography of the President shows his weaknesses and accomplishments during his term.