Based on a wealth of never previously published letters and documents, and access to more than two thousand interviews, this portrait of the youth who was John F. Kennedy is profoundly touching. JFK's courage, despite debilitating ill health, in joining the Navy anti insisting on service ill PT boats comes to a dramatic climax with the saga of PT 109 - the only American vessel ever rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer and revealed for the first time is the intimate story of the greatest love of JFK's early life; his ...
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Based on a wealth of never previously published letters and documents, and access to more than two thousand interviews, this portrait of the youth who was John F. Kennedy is profoundly touching. JFK's courage, despite debilitating ill health, in joining the Navy anti insisting on service ill PT boats comes to a dramatic climax with the saga of PT 109 - the only American vessel ever rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer and revealed for the first time is the intimate story of the greatest love of JFK's early life; his passionate romance with a suspected enemy spy. The Kennedy that emerges from this book is, behind his playboy facade, vastly more driven and more serious than historians have yet before portrayed him. Though Joseph Kennedy reluctantly transferred the family's political mantle to his second son in 1944, the presidential dream that the ambassador had reserved for his eldest son was JFK's own secret ambition. In this riveting family saga, we see the true Jack Kennedy warts and all; a symbolic, relentlessly honest, yet sympathetic story of the struggles of youth and early manhood that will entrance and forever alter our understanding of this century's most popular and charismatic American president.
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