Hugh Sidey

AUTHOR'S NOTE THIS BOOK was to have been the beginning of the story. Now, tragically, it covers, in time, the entire span of John F. Kennedy, President. What I wrote is an attempt to record honestly the major events of the New Frontier's three years as I witnessed and understood them. I was...

AUTHOR'S NOTEThis book was to have been the beginning of the story. Now, tragically, it covers, in time, the entire span of John F. Kennedy, President.What I wrote is an attempt to record honestly the major events of the New Frontier's three years as I witnessed and understood them. I was granted a...

INTRODUCTION: IOWA'S LANGUAGEBy Hugh SideyThe psalm from the movie Field of Dreams"Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa"has taken its place in the sound-bite firmament, but its lilt is as old and true as the land. On first viewing Iowa in 1804, Captain Meriwether Lewis described what he saw as "the most...