NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2000
"A compelling re-telling of one of the saddest and most intriguing life stories in American politics."
Newsweek assistant managing editor Thomas (
The Very Best Men, 1995, etc.) enlivens his engrossing RFK biography with fresh interviews and the use of previously restricted sources.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2001
"Into the Kennedy aura once more, but brightly."
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2000
"A major work on an American political icon.(16 pages b&w photos) (Author tour)"
A persuasive study both of the character of Robert Kennedy and of his persistent hold on the national imagination.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2001
"Well-researched, but vulgar and plodding."
Bloated, stumbling account of Janet Auchincloss, her family, and the social world that produced Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 17, 2009
"A balanced, nuanced, warts-and-all portrait."
A respectful but not stuffy portrait of Edward Kennedy, the playboy of legendary appetites turned senior statesman.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 1992
"A balanced and thoughtful account that avoids the hagiography or damnation of so many other JFK bios, revealing the man in all his complexity, from his wily, hypnotic charm to his political decisiveness when it could not be avoided."
Brisk, solid survey of a brief and controversial presidency, by Giglio (History/Southwest Missouri State Univ.).
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