Synopsis
Despite the many biographies of John F. Kennedy, none has attempted to reconcile the idealism and lofty vision of the nation's youngest president to the morally suspect conduct of the private man. Questioning how his less than exemplary life related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character, penetrating his carefully wrought public image to reveal the true man. Two 8-page photo inserts.
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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 the Author
Thomas C. Reeves is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. He is also the author of The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy and The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity. He lives in Franksville, Wisconsin.
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