With apologies to Martin Luther King, Kennedy’s (actually Ted Sorensen’s) inaugural address is the…

…existential threat for a great democracy (and who also died tragically while in office, of plague), Kennedy’s oratory summoned up the best in at least some of his countrymen. Off they trooped, the ancient Athenians to the great struggle against Sparta, the young Americans i…
American Hero or Pied Piper? The Ambiguous Memory of JFK
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Sam Haines
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Oct 25, 2022
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With apologies to Martin Luther King, Kennedy’s (actually Ted Sorensen’s) inaugural address is the greatest work of American political oratory since Lincoln’s second inaugural.
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