A Question of Character : a Life of John F. Kennedy / Thomas C. Reeves

Reeves, Thomas C. (1936-)

ISBN 10: 0029259657 / ISBN 13: 9780029259658

Edité par New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Collier MacMillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell MacMillan International, 1991

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Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 510 pages; Description: xv, 510 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Inscribed by previous owner. Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) , 1917-1963. Presidents --United States --Biography. Political leadership --United States --History --20th century. 2 Kg.

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• Titre: A Question of Character : a Life of John F. Kennedy / Thomas C. Reeves
• Éditeur: New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Collier MacMillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell MacMillan International
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0029259657
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780029259658
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Poids: 2 kilogrammes

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Synopsis

Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows in particular the effects of his father's ruthless political tutelage and follows JFK through a career marked by an ever widening gap between the public image of a courageous and caring intellectual leader and the private reality of indifference to those values of fidelity, compassion, and concern he extolled. Drawing extensively on both published and archival materials, Reeves shows how "the best and the brightest" whom Kennedy attracted in life glorified him in death and transformed a man personally and politically ambivalent about such issues as civil rights into the fallen champion of the subsequent reforms of the Great Society.

Présentation de l'éditeur

No issue is more hotly debated than how, or even if, a politician's private life affects his public competence. In A Question of Character John F. Kennedy's two lives—public and private—are examined to answer this timely question. Respected historian and biographer Thomas C. Reeves reveals discrepancies between JFK's public persona, which has reached mythic proportions, and his scandalous private behavior. Most illuminating is the constant theme or Joe Kennedy's almost total control of JFK's behavior and politics throughout most of his son's career.

"The John Kennedy who emerges from these pages was not a man of good moral character. He was reared not to be good but to win." — Los Angeles Times

Reeves has provided the most truthful and balanced assessment of John F. Kennedy to date. Written more in sorrow than in anger, A Question of Character explores the sensitive and difficult question of how people, and history itself, ought to judge the relationship between personal character and national leadership.