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Although John F Kennedy is perhaps the best-known American president of the 20th century, surprisingly he lacks a major, full-length, all-embracing biography. Barbara Leaming realised the omission as she wrote her most recent book, MRS KENNEDY, an account of Jackie Kennedy as First Lady. Whereas some see JFK as noble idealist, others as self-serving deceiver, to Leaming he is Time and time again, she writes, I have been astonished to discover a man in crisis, a leader desperately and profoundly at odds with himself. She sees the formative years starting on the eve of the Munich crisis in 1938 in London where his father had just become US ambassador. Leaming spotlight the friendship between the Kennedy and Cavendish families made formal when Billy, heir to the Devonshire dukedom, married Kenndys sister Kick, the person to whom he was closest. But Kick died in a plane crash in 1948. Twelve years later Kennedy, now the 35th US president, found himself dealing with a friend from those formative years, the British PM, Harold Macmillan, whose wife was a Cavendish. In Leamings view and she is the only writer to have seen the full Macmillan-JFK-Jacky letters Macmillan, and others from th

Author

Leaming, Barbara

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297829188

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir