Jack: A Life Like No Other

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There has been no complete biography like this one. Jack deals with the full scope of Kennedy's life: his family, his friends, even his infidelities. There's much new to say, much culled from hundreds of hours of tapes from the Oval Office that were unavailable until now. Through painstaking research, Geoffrey Perret located thousands of revealing documents on national security issues and foreign affairs. All of the documents from the Assassination Records Review Board are now available as well and Perret has mined the Kennedy Library in a way few others have, finding letters and diaries that have never before seen the light of day. With style and substance, Perret brings to life again the man who left such an indelible impression on the twentieth century.

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A portrait of Kennedy that is thoroughly grounded in fact, free of partisan bias and believable.
The New York Times Book Review

Geoffrey Perret, in the first full-scale biography of John Kennedy in almost twenty years, sheds new light on the mans mystique, his marriage and his all too brief presidency.
GQ

Perret captures the paradox at Kennedys core: He was an idealist and a visionary who couldnt or wouldnt control his most adolescent urges.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Full of revelations...[Perret] does a good job deflating the erroneous image of the Kennedys as Boston aristocracy...and he strikes a good balance between the personal and the political.
Los Angeles Times

Author Bio

Geoffrey Perret was educated at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. He was enlisted in the US Army for three years and is the author of acclaimed books Ulysses S Grant and Eisenhower. He lives in England.