A Question of Character : A Life of John F Kennedy - Hardcover

Reeves, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029259657 ISBN 13: 9780029259658

Publisher: Free Press, 1991

Synopsis

Explores the contradiction between JFK's idealistic public image and his flawed, private moral life and shows in particular the effects of his father's ruthless political tutelage

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From the Inside Flap:

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

From the Back Cover:

"Readers interested in a serious revisionist examination of Kennedy's life and record should look at A Question of Character, . . . a book that, judging by Hersh's 'Chapter Notes,' seems not to have come to his attention. If it had, perhaps we would have been spared The Dark Side of Camelot."— Jonathan Yardley, in his Washington Post review of Seymour Hersh's The Dark Side of Camelot.
"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
"It is the Marilyn Monroe chapter that speaks the loudest in this book of the incredible hubris of Jack and Bobby Kennedy. You have to read it to believe it."— Liz Smith

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0029259657
• ISBN 13: 9780029259658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 500