America in 1960 is undergoing a great sea change. Cultural comfort is being challenged by an unpredictable world rattled by a Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. Tradition is being mocked by the intelligentsia, T. S. Eliot and the beatniks. John F. Kennedy, and his youthful Camelot, will soon become the source of a new power - and a new prestige. It is a world that will soon say goodbye to Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. It is the dawning of the...