adulatory books following Kennedy's murder was The Pleasure of His Company, by longtime friend Paul B. Fay, Jr., a work which will be compared to Reeves' work later in this study.
Gradually, through the years, information far less positive about Kennedy's character began to be revealed, including womanizing and extramarital affairs, questionable relationships, direct or indirect, with Mafia leaders, drug use, political weakness (as in his failure to stand up to Joseph McCarthy) and recklessness (including consideration of a first strike on Berlin).
The general focus of the book is Kennedy's lack of moral principle, both in his personal and his political life. Reeves stresses that he did not want to write a book on the level of a National Enquirer exposT or a "dubious" psychohistory. Instead, he writes,
Rather than try to probe JFK's subconscious in a clinical way and become entangled with speculations concer
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