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JFK Jr. : an intimate oral biography / RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil.

Terenzio, RoseMarie, (author.). McNeil, Liz, (author.).

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ISBN: 9781668018514
ISBN: 1668018519
ISBN: 9781668018521
ISBN: 1668018527
Physical Description: pages cm
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2024.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Fly Away Home -- When Jackie Met Jack -- A Son and an Heir -- November 22, 1963 -- Aftermath -- Starting Over -- Enter Ari -- Collegiate Kid -- Bong Hits and the Brothers Johnson -- The JK Factor -- Postgrad -- A Star Is Born -- "John Jr.'s in the building" -- "With every girl and how gorgeous they were, it was one more notch up" -- Weight of History -- Death of an Icon, Birth of a Magazine -- Carolyn -- Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet George -- Meet Me at the Carlyle -- "The only gift we could actually give them is their privacy" -- "It just escalated and escalated and escalated" -- Under Pressure -- Off-Hours -- "Carolyn had no qualms about John running for office" -- 1999 -- "John's not coming back" -- "A dark night" -- "A nightmare week."

Summary, etc.:

"The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories and insights, his closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers, and colleagues paint a vivid portrait of one of the most beloved figures of the 20th century, revealing how the boy who saluted became the man America came to know and love who still captures public imagination twenty-five years after his tragic death. Born into the spotlight, John F. Kennedy Jr. lived a short but remarkable life filled with expectation, ambition, family pressures, love, and tragedy. JFK Jr. dives deep into his complicated psyche and explores the what-ifs, illuminating both the cultural and political moment he inhabited and the way this son of a president, so full of promise and possibility, embodied America's most cherished hopes"-- Provided by publisher.