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JFK Jr. [large print] : an intimate oral biography / RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil ; edited by Kim Hubbard.

Terenzio, RoseMarie, (author.). McNeil, Liz, (author.). Hubbard, Kim, (editor.).

Summary:

"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."-- Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781420515817
ISBN: 1420515810
Physical Description: 715 pages (large print), 14 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs ; 22 cm.
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- 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 ... 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" -- Under pressure -- Off-hours -- "How do you become your own person ... when you almost belong to everybody?" -- 1999 -- "John's not coming back" -- "A dark night" -- "A nightmare week."