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Title: Jack: A Life Like No Other by Geoffrey Perret ISBN: 0-375-76125-X Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.07 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth reading, but definitively not a great book
Comment: Geoffrey Perret presents a new look at the life of America's most beloved president; it is also "the first craddle to grave biography" of this intricate personality. While the book is worth reading for those who are looking for a single volume biography of Jack Kennedy, it is definitivley not the definitive life of JFK nor a top work of scholarship. It reads more like a big volume of Biography Magazine or any news weekly than a well written, well researched piece. It will entretain and you will learn something --the history parts are very good-, but it will not earn a place in history as Gilbert's or Jenkins biography of Churchill will do.
Nevertheless you should read this book. It is an easy read, very entretaining and revealing. Jack's sex-adiction, amazing ambition, relation to his imposing father, sense of destiny, will be exposed before your eyes. It makes you wonder about where character in our leaders went since then.
Rating: 2
Summary: ZZZZZZZZ
Comment: Mr. Perret somehow succeeded in writing an incredibly boring book about a man who lived an extrodinary life. The book is also marred by continuous misstatements of fact and poor research. To those looking for a good book on JFK, I advise you to take a look at Nigel Hamilton's "JFK: Reckless Youth" for illumination on his early life, Richard Reeves' "Profile in Power" for a broad look at his presidency, and Arthur Schlessinger Jr.'s "A Thousand Days" for an intimate look at his presidency that also gives you an excellent sense of who he was as a person. "Jack" isn't worth the time.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Good Try
Comment: Jack is a nice easy read but one tends to wonder where Perret got some of his ideas or if in fact he got them from anywhere but his own imagination. There are times when Perret seems to make up small insignificant happenings to forshadow the inevitable outcome of his life. That aside, Jack is a good book portraying a President so unique and so different than most ex-Presidents. This would be a good first Kennedy read.
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Title: Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (BLACKS IN THE NEW WORLD) by John Dittmer ISBN: 0252065077 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Russians Are Coming! the Russians Are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America by Richard M. Fried ISBN: 0195134176 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Moving On: The American People Since 1945 (2nd Edition) by George Moss ISBN: 0130171913 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 07 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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Title: The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election by Zachary Karabell ISBN: 0375700773 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer ISBN: 0385504713 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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