Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

  • Author: Chris Matthews
  • Narrator: Holter Graham
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 13:20:01
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Synopsis

“Filled with the vitality and spirit that made Jack Kennedy such a magical figure. Chris Matthews shows the cunning and determination beneath that magic. It’s an awesome and delightful book.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

“What was he like?”

Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was he like, this man whose own wife called him “that elusive, unforgettable man?” In this New York Times bestselling biography, Chris Matthews answers that question with the verve of a novelist. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We watch him navigate his life from privileged, rebellious youth to gutsy American president. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war.

Matthews’s extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK, oral histories by top political aide Kenneth O’Donnell and others, documents from his years as a student at Choate, and notes from Jacqueline Kennedy’s first interview after Dallas. As Matthews writes: “I found a fighting prince never free of pain, never far from trouble, never accepting the world he found, never wanting to be his father’s son. He was a far greater hero than he ever wished us to know.”

Chapters

  • JackKennedy 21 Ch10a

    Duration: 23min
  • JackKennedy 22 Ch10b

    Duration: 27min
  • JackKennedy 23 Ch11a

    Duration: 29min
  • JackKennedy 24 Ch11b

    Duration: 29min
  • JackKennedy 25 Ch12a

    Duration: 23min
  • JackKennedy 26 Ch12b

    Duration: 23min
  • JackKennedy 27 Ch12c

    Duration: 28min
  • JackKennedy 28 Ch12d

    Duration: 26min
  • JackKennedy 29 Ch13a

    Duration: 27min
  • JackKennedy 30 Ch13b

    Duration: 28min
  • JackKennedy 31 Ch14a

    Duration: 29min
  • JackKennedy 32 Ch14b

    Duration: 28min
  • JackKennedy 33 Ch15a

    Duration: 22min
  • JackKennedy 34 Ch15b

    Duration: 25min
  • JackKennedy 35 Ch16

    Duration: 17min
  • JackKennedy 36 Credits

    Duration: 01min
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