Ben Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy's death. They also had a more professional relationship governed by Bradlee's job covering the capital for Give[s] us a good idea of what Jack Kennedy was really likeprobably as good an idea as anything likely to be written about him [him]. . . . Highly informal and readable. R. L. Tobin,