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Provides a detailed analysis of the first presidential speech given by America's thirty-fifth chief executive, revealing little-known facts and anecdotes regarding quotation sources, literary influences, and subject matter decisions.
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Formerly with the Wall Street Journal and now head of the International Freedom Center to be built where the World Trade Center was, Tofel seeks to understand the enduring appeal of the January 1961 address by examining its origins. He draws on extensive interviews with Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy's special counsel, about how the speech evolved and why it contained the words it did. He also discusses the impact of the speech over the past four decades, and includes surviving drafts of the speech and a few related documents. The disk is a 17-minute DVD of the swearing in and speech. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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