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JFK: Reckless Youth

by Nigel Hamilton · 1992

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The 1st volume of a monumental new biography of John F. Kennedy—a blazingly readable but balanced portrait that details scores of astonishing new facts about the young JFK. Based on unprecedented access to previously unpublished papers and documents & over 2000 interviews, JFK is scholarly, candid & sympathetic. 16 pages of photos.

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Prologue: The birth of Camelot

Part 1: Boston beginnings

Part 2: Making millions

Part 3: Boarding school

Part 4: Freshman years

Part 5: The Ambassador's son

Part 6: Why England slept

Part 7: Stanford interlude

Part 8: Joining the U.S. Navy

Part 9: Inga Binga

Part 10: On the way to war

Part 11: PT 109

Part 12: Shipwrecked

Part 13: Gunboat skipper

Part 14: The home front

Part 15: A hat in the ring

Part 16: Election to Congress

Author's Note & Acknowledgments

Notes on Sources

Index

Subject
biographyhistorypolitics
Themes
american historypresidentspoliticshistory
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 922 pages

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