JFK's Last Hundred Days: An Intimate Portrait of a Great President - Softcover

Clarke, Thurston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141048077 ISBN 13: 9780141048079

Publisher: Penguin, 2014

Synopsis

'Poignant, fascinating, entertaining and informative ... reminds us exactly how much did happen in that time span and of how many tantalising hints he left behind' Financial Times

'Brilliantly captures Kennedy's entire life through the prism of his final months ... the hero, like the devil, is in the detail' Mark Mason, Spectator, Books of the Year

'Wonderfully vivid' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

'A vivid portrait of Kennedy as an immensely complex human being: by turns detached and charismatic, a hard-nosed politician and a closet romantic, cautious in his decision making but reckless in his womanizing' Michicko Kakutani, New York Times

'A superb piece of writing - richly detailed and, considering that the end is all too well known, surprisingly enthralling' Frank Gannon, Wall Street Journal

'The great merit of Clarke's account is that it encompasses both sides of Kennedy: the statesman and the chancer; the moralist and the opportunist' David Runciman, New Statesman

'A superb book ... has the ominousness of a Shakespearean tragedy' Roger Lewis, Daily Mail

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Review:

Earnestly exuberant . . . Clarke is an intrepid researcher (New Yorker)

Entertaining, informative, fascinating . . . reminds us exactly how much did happen in that time span and of how many tantalising hints he left behind about his plans for the future (Financial Times)

A good storyteller, his account offers an enjoyable snapshot of the day-to-day workings of the presidency (Economist)

About the Author:

Thurston Clarke has written eleven widely acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including three New York Times Notable Books. His Pearl Harbor Ghosts was the basis of a CBS documentary, and his bestselling Lost Hero, a biography of Raoul Wallenberg, was made into an award-winning NBC miniseries. His articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and other awards and lives with his wife and three daughters in upstate New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141048077
• ISBN 13: 9780141048079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464