"""JFK: Conservative,"" by Ira Stoll. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 274 pp., $27) Although liberals claim him as one of their own, Kennedy was a conservative by the standards of his day — and ours, Stoll argues. Why? JFK believed in tax cuts as economic stimulus; he allowed Catholicism to lead his vision of democracy; he disliked big government; and he built up the military while in office."
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