Conversations with JFK

Michael O'Brien was Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley until his retirement. He has written numerous books,mainly on 20th-century American political history, including McCarthy and McCarthyism in Wisconsin (1981) and John F. Kennedy: A Biography (2005).Gore Vidal was the author of 25 novels, six plays, many screenplays, more than 200 essays, and the critically lauded memoir Palimpsest. Vidal's United States: Essays 1952-1992 won the 1993 National BookAward. Upon his death in 2012 he was described by the LA Times as ""among the most elegant[writers] in the English language"".