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An Unfinished Life

John F Kennedy has long been a polemical figure in American politics but on 22 November 1963 he lost his life when he was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaz. This assassination has become one of the most controversial events in modern times, one could even compare his death with Diana Princess of Wales and her sudden death in a car crash which has had much speculation over recent years with new information coming out all the time in the media

Robert Dallek's book An Unfinished Life is now being presented as an audiobook and is the first authoritative single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades. Drawing upon firsthand sources, freshly unearthed documents, and never-before-opened archives, prizewinning historian Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing the way we think about his life, his presidency, and his legacy. An Unfinished Life describes the birth of the Kennedy dynasty, the complexity of Jack's early years, and the mixture of adulation and resentment that tangled his relationships with his mother, Rose, and his father, Joseph. Forced into the shadow of his older brother, Joe, Jack struggled to find a place for himself until World War II, when he became a national hero and launched his career. Dallek reveals for the first time the full story of Kennedy's wartime actions and the true details of how Joe was killed, opening the door to Jack's ascendancy.

The author describes the gripping story of Jack's transformation from an awkward speaker to a brilliant politician with irresistible charm. An Unfinished Life carries us from Jack's work as a senator from Massachusetts, through the fiercely contested 1960 campaign against Nixon, and takes us on to the White House itself.

An Unfinished Life also discloses for the very first time that Kennedy was far sicker than we ever knew. While laboring to present an image of robust good health, Kennedy was secretly in and out of hospitals throughout his life, so ill that he was administered last rites on several different occasions. Here is a vivid portrait of a man who, because he knew how close he was to death, lived as much as he could - sometimes hurting others in the process.

Never shying away from Kennedy's weaknesses, Dallek also brilliantly explores his strengths. The result is a full portrait of a bold, brave, human Kennedy, once again a hero. An Unfinished Life is the account Americans have been waiting forty years to hear. Now, at long last, we have the definitive audio biography of Jack Kennedy.

Robert Dallek is currently a professor of history at Boston University. He has taught at Columbia, UCLA, and Oxford. As well as An Unfinished Life he has written several other books, including his classic two-volume biography of LYNDON JOHNSON, LONE STAR RISING AND FLAWED GIANT. He has won the Bancroft Prize, among numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.Listen to a snippet of the audiobook at

adrian carpenter is the publisher of www.ibooks4you.co.uk

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