5/20/2023 0 Comments Kennedy an unfinished life![]() ![]() He uncovered another player in a long line of Kennedy presidential peccadilloes, a "tall, slender, beautiful, 19-year-old college sophomore and White House intern," who, ironically, got the job after she interviewed Jacqueline Kennedy for her college newspaper - and is now universally known to be Marion, aka Mimi, Fahnestock.ĭallek, a Boston University history professor and author of a two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, ![]() One of his major revelations has already been exploited by the media. ![]() That claim may be debatable, but some of what Dallek reveals is new to this writer. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades." Jack: A Life Like No Other - as "the first authoritative single volume life of John F. The Dark Side of Camelot and Geoffrey Perret's Years of painstaking research, access to recently released documents and interviews with dozens of sources have produced an incredibly detailed 838-page volume that the book-jacket flap heralds - despite such recent works as Seymour Hersh's ![]() Yet, unlike historian Thomas Reeves's 1991 JFK biography,Ī Question Of Character, which concluded that "had Kennedy lived to see a second term, the realities of his lechery and dealings might have leaked out while he was still in office, gravely damaging his presidency," Dallek has produced a "high hopes" (Kennedy's campaign song) look at JFK's life, even granted the warts-and-all approach. A Unfinished Life: John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963, is timely in this, the 40th year since Kennedy was slain at age 46. ![]()
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