POLITICA DYNASTICA Kennedy, Lodge, and the Coming of War in Vietnam
Two men.
Two dynasties.
One city.
One war.
Available November 2026
From all appearances, John F. Kennedy and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. were political opposites. One was a young, Irish Catholic Democrat who benefited greatly from his father's financial successes. The other was an older, Protestant Republican descended from one of the nation's oldest political families.
Yet they shared a city, a culture, a generation, a war—and a complicated history that stretched back a century.
In 1963, Kennedy sent his former political rival to South Vietnam. Their relationship lasted just one hundred days.
Those hundred days would help change the course of the Vietnam War.
