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"Previous biographies of John F. Kennedy have been based almost entirely on newspaper files and personal recollections.
Geoffrey Perret's Jack is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive and important documentary record that has finally become available, including Kennedy's personal diaries, hundreds of hours of taped conversations from the White House, recently declassified government documents, extensive family correspondence, and crucial interviews sealed for nearly forty years.
The result is a gripping, accurate, and ultimately moving portrait of America's most charismatic president.".
"Perret describes how JFK got the two most important decisions of his administration right: his handling of the Cuban missile crisis and his stance on civil rights. As to Vietnam, Kennedy did not believe it was worth fighting for, and in the last months of his presidency he began formulating a secret plan for neutralization and withdrawal - if he won the 1964 election. But that, of course, was not to be: Convinced he would die young, Kennedy foresaw that a violent death would claim him.
Throughout his brief time in the White House he was haunted by a vision of a man standing at a window, looking down at him, holding a rifle."--BOOK JACKET.
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