As Matthews writes: "I found a fighting prince never free of pain, never far from trouble, never accepting the world he found, never wanting to be his father's son. Matthews's extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK, oral histories by top political aide Kenneth O'Donnell and others, documents from his years as a student at Choate, and notes from Jacqueline Kennedy's first interview after Dallas. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. We watch him navigate his life from privileged, rebellious youth to gutsy American president.
We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. What was he like, this man whose own wife called him "that elusive, unforgettable man?" In this New York Times bestselling biography, Chris Matthews answers that question with the verve of a novelist. "What was he like?" Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question.
Kennedy, by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball. The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biography of John F.
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