JFK's Last Hundred Days

The Transformation of a Man and The Emergence of a Great President

By: Thurston Clarke

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been

Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key issues of his day: the cold war, civil rights, and Vietnam, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise. JFK’s Last Hundred Days presents a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy’s public and private lives, explains why the grief following his assassination has endured so long, and solves the most tantalizing Kennedy mystery of them all—not who killed him but who he was when he was killed and where he would have led us.

One of the better JFK books out there

One of the better JFK books I have ever read. The use of first hand accounts and words of the actual men who lived the moments provide unmatched insight. This book makes the reader think about what JFK was striving for. Often we forget that history can remember a man far differently than the man he truly was. The evidence provided in this book does make you question how much blame JFK should really be given for the policy choices that he may never have intended. I recomend this to anyone and is well worth the one credit price AUDIBLE 20 REVIEW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY

wears better as it progresses

Having devoured almost every book, magazine and video on the subject of Kennedy and his administration, life, family and times, and coming from the same context (my Dad hailed from Harvard and Harvard Law School simultaneously with Jack and Joe and sat on the bench and was dear friends with Kennedy associate and family friend Frank Morrissey and they all started in East Boston) I found some of this old wine in new bottles. Up to Ch 11 nothing new. Schlesinger, Kearns Goodwin, Sidey, White, Sorensen, Dallek, Reeves, Herschel, Burns, Powers and O Donnell et al. have said it all before. But...This is a new angle around which to focus everything...the last 100 days instead of 1000 days he himself spoke of. What interested me were quotes I'd never heard before, the predictions about Vietnam and detente with Russia and Cuba and relationship with Johnson, but I am tired of hearing about the womanizing...we know already. I guess 50 yrs after the fact a new crop of history buffs has come up who hasn t read it all so Thurston Clarke is aiming for them. The voice, however, is a bit of a drone...should ve varied according to different characters quoted to obtain nuance. Do wish for the days of this crowd of adult, not adolescent, thinkers at the helm of government tempered by war and the fear of holocaust, educated by geniuses at LSE and Oxford and the Ivy Leagues, who valued and aimed for peaceful coexistence rather than combat...what we have now are just seat warmers in Washington and the state capitals of government, so politicized and buried in the mire of lobbyists and PACs and special interests that gridlock is the norm...as we wait for the return of the best and the brightest...futilely.

Good listen...want to buy the book.

Great book on JFK’s last days

This book provides a comprehensive look at the last 100 days of JFK’s Presidency. The author explains throughout the book how JFK’s views evolved and where his focus was as he went to Dallas on November 22. A really good book!

What a great book about a great leader.

I was a fourth grader with Ms. McQueen, walked in the classroom and told us little kids, that the president had been shot. I thought it had to do with Vietnam war. But Sadly that was not true. This book does a great service to a great man, and a great country.

Truly enjoyed this book

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I truly enjoyed the book, a lot of new information about JFK, at least for me. Narration is great too.