'Easily the best modern account of JFK.' Guardian 'A brilliant account of one of America's most charismatic twentieth-century presidents.' Sunday Telegraph 'An intimate portrait. The result is a startling portrait of a bold, brave and truly human JFK. But who lay beneath the legend? Robert Dallek's revelatory biography, now updated with a new afterword for the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, draws on newly opened files to let us see the real Kennedy in all his contradictions- his dramatic political struggles the truth about his troubled marriage to Jackie and his obsessive womanizing and the lifelong physical suffering behind his image of healthy vigour - so serious that he was administered last rites on several occasions.
Kennedy became a twentieth-century icon during his tragically short life.
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