The search for JFK / by Joan and Clay Blair, Jr.

Includes index

Contents: Part I: School. Choate -- Harvard: Torby, Ben, and Charlie -- Harvard: traveling -- Harvard: two courtships -- Harvard: the work of many hands -- A lark -- Pulling strings -- Part II: Navy. A dull office job -- Inga-binga -- Ronald -- Siberia -- The volunteer -- South Pacific -- PT-109 -- Combat -- Meeting the express -- Destroyed -- A new command -- Gunboat #1 -- Part III: Transition. Coming home -- Shaking down -- Surgery -- Tragedy -- Father and son -- Rebuilding -- The journalist -- Part IV: Boston. The bay state -- Old pols -- Old pals -- Palm Beach interlude -- The eleventh -- Tactics -- Young pols -- The visible team -- Rehabilitating the ambassador -- High gear -- Landslide -- Indirect politics -- A secret marriage? -- Part V: Washington. Going to work -- The red menace -- Congressman -- The health question: an answer