Killing Kennedy

I'm still chasing that book-high I got from reading Killing Jesus (which I couldn't find in military-full Killing Patton and Killing Lincoln). Combined with my love for fellow Mass./Cape Cod families. Also, one of my favorite Stephen King books is 11/22/63, so I was interested about a non-fiction version of the assassination of Jack Kennedy.

Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Genre: Non-fiction, John F. Kennedy
Publication Date: October 2012

This book chronicles the last few years of Jack Kennedy's life, with some detail on how he became President of the U.S. O'Reilly and Dugard takes us into Kennedy's misadventure in the Navy, his marriage with Jackie, his many affairs, and his policy. The life and ambitions of Lee Harvey Oswald are also displayed, a young man with dreams of being a great man with a legacy.

Difficult to write a synopsis because I've already heard the Kennedy story so much, and he had a very short stint as president (only three years). He was a pained man (with a myriad of diseases and conditions), a playboy, arrogant, tied perhaps too closely to his family (especially Bobby), a doting father, and a socially popular President (with the help of Jackie and their open relationship with the media).

This is a good book for someone unfamiliar with the 35th, but I can't say if it was any more entertaining or informative than the miniseries.

Finished reading: Tuesday, July 28, 2015

DD's rating: A
Who doesn't love the Kennedy's?? However, this book did not present me with any information I had not already heard, either from 11/22/63 or The Kennedy's TV series, thus it does not get a "+."

**BTW 11/22/63 is hitting the little screen as a mini-series and starring James Franco. I am very excited.

Next read: The Silent Wife by A.S.A Harrison