But the Kennedys frustrated their militaristic ambitions, pushing for a peaceful resolution to the Cold War. These hard-line generals & spymasters were hell-bent on a showdown with Communism - in Berlin, Laos, Vietnam & especially Cuba. The brothers & a small circle of their trusted advisors - men like Theodore Sorensen, Robert McNamara & Kenny O'Donnell, who were so close as to be regarded as family - repeatedly thwarted Washington's warrior caste. It then shifts back in time, revealing the shadowy conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration, pitting the president & his brother against their own national security apparatus. The Kennedys had struggled to control this swamp of anti-Castro intrigue based in South Florida, but with little success. His suspicions focus on the nest of CIA spies, gangsters & Cuban exiles who'd long plotted a violent regime change in Cuba.

It begins on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a stricken Robert urgently demands answers about his brother's assassination.

Talbot, founder of, has written a political history sure to be talked about. 'Brothers' sheds light on the inner life of the Kennedy presidency & its aftermath. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has been submerged. Kennedy or his brother Robert Kennedy have woven either a tale of Camelot or a tawdry tale of ambition & reckless personal behavior. For decades, books about President John F.

The hidden history of the kennedy years