John F. Kennedy's Women
The Story of a Sexual Obsession
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Publisher Description
After an initial honeymoon with historians, in recent years John F. Kennedy has been more carefully scrutinized. Michael O’Brien, who knows as much about Kennedy as any historian now writing, here takes a comprehensive look at the feature of Camelot that remained largely under the radar during the White House years: Kennedy’s womanizing. Indeed, O’Brien writes, Kennedy’s approach to women and sex was near pathological, beyond the farthest reaches of the media’s imagination at the time. The record makes for an astonishing piece of presidential history.
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This original essay is published by Now and Then Reader, Digital Publishers of Serious Nonfiction.
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Michael O’Brien was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and studied at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a Ph.D. in history. He is the author of the widely praised John F. Kennedy: A Biography, a full-scale study based on eleven years’ research into letters, diaries, financial papers, medical records, manuscripts, and oral histories; and a concise analytical life of the president, Rethinking Kennedy. He is now emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley, and lives in Door County, Wisconsin.
Customer Reviews
The mask we humans wear!
JFK's tryst, conquests or whatever you desire to call them is just the tip of the complexities that lies within a human being. This book gives an interesting account of JFK and gives insight into a world most of us only believe happens in the movies. I appreciate the writer's research and ability to not write in judgement but simply provide a different perspective to someone the American knew but really didn't know.
Illuminating, and sadly disillusioning
I burned through this tome at record speed, because it is a fascinating look into the reality behind the JFK mystique. I had often heard the rumors regarding his indiscretions, but couldn't imagine that they could be true, because he hadn't been exposed during his time. This work explains how it was possible for the administration to keep a wrap on the extent to which JFK was indulging in what has to be called a sexual addiction. I admit that I haven't vetted all the facts presented here, but the ground covered is not new, it's just presented in the context of witnesses who actually worked within the administration, but who were unaffiliated with the Kennedy administration as a political body (IE; secret service members).
While this short book is definitely a shock to the system, and certainly puts Camelot in a very different light, it is an extremely interesting read, and a must for anyone interested in history as it actually happened.
Factual,enlightening read
An excellent quick read, that provided me a good understanding, and even left me with an empathy, for one part of our President's character. A very honest portrait of a serious flaw in the man's makeup that, do I dare say, "Only by the grace of God", could have brought great harm to our country.