Jack Kennedy : Elusive Hero

Matthews, Chris

ISBN 10: 1451635087 / ISBN 13: 9781451635089

Edité par Simon & Schuster, 2011

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Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Jack Kennedy : Elusive Hero
• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1451635087
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781451635089
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 1,836 livre

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Synopsis

“Filled with the vitality and spirit that made Jack Kennedy such a magical figure. Chris Matthews shows the cunning and determination beneath that magic. It’s an awesome and delightful book.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

“What was he like?”

Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. 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. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We watch him navigate his life from privileged, rebellious youth to gutsy American president. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war.

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. 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. He was a far greater hero than he ever wished us to know.”

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Matthews is the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit; Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero; Kennedy & Nixon: A Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America; and Hardball: How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game. Matthews was a presidential speechwriter and top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. For a generation, he hosted Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC, which is now exclusively on Substack.