I've always had mixed feelings toward JFK but with there being so much celebrity status revolving around him and the life he led you find so much muck. However I felt that the author approached all the topics well, and gave a decent debate on multiple stands. Its written with respect and is thorough...
Jack Kennedy was the mythological front man for a particularly juicy slice of our history. He called a slick line and wore a world-class haircut. He was Bill Clinton minus pervasive media scrutiny and a few rolls of flab. - James Ellroy, American TabloidMitigating circumstances: This is the ninth am...
Caveats: I was in third grade when Richard Nixon died and remember that my class got to go to the school library to watch a video I interpreted as being mainly about his Cocker Spaniel, Checkers.* Other than seeing the movie Dick starring teenage Michelle Williams and Kirsten Dunst** when I was in h...
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 is Robert Dallek's best-selling biography of the United States' 35th president. The book has garnered much critical acclaim and rightly so. Dallek does an admirable job of showing the character of JFK behind his public image and the historical record. I...
A good biography of Kennedy. Gave it three stars. It wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worst. I think I might just have read too many Kennedy books to give more stars unless the material is presented in more intriguing fashion. If John Kennedy is one of your favorite historical figures, you won...
In many ways an unlikely occupant of the office, Harry Truman’s career was one of dogged determination in a series of failed jobs and minor offices. Even his first term as a United States senator was less than noteworthy, and it was not until he had won reelection and achieved prominence as the head...
Dallek is a gifted writer and this is both a very entertaining and informative read. It is the personalities of the two men that defined so much of what they did and Dallek pays particular attention to that. And these are definitely two characters with lots of personality, whatever one may think of ...
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