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Because Americans felt they knew him almost as well as someone sitting across the breakfast table, they wanted more than a distant grave. Once their tears had dried, or before, they began naming roads and bridges, tunnels, highways, and buildings for him, creating a grief stricken empire of asphalt, mortar, brick, and bronze so extensive that if you extinguished every light on earth except those illuminating something named for him, astronauts launched from the Kennedy Space Center would have seen a web of lights stretching across Europe and North America, and others scattered through Africa and Asia- and if proposals to stamp "Land of Kennedy" on every Massachusetts license plate, or rename West Virginia "Kennedyiana" had been approved, they would have seen more."
I absolutely loved this book. After reading it, I felt as though everyone who lived through the Kennedy presidency must have felt: that I knew him and loved him.
Clarke, with his magnificent prose, does not present things in black and white, but puts things into context for the reader to better understand. With remarks like "because these statements were made after Dallas, they cannot escape the suspicion that they were motivated by a desire to paint the couples final days together as happy ones," he allows the reader to make a lot of their own decisions about Kennedy throughout the book.
I went into the book knowing little about Kennedy's presidency, but I enjoyed it immensely. The author includes just the right amount of politics and personal life. I especially enjoyed the offhanded quotes from the president that he included, giving you just a little glimpse into a candid Kennedy.
I absolutely loved this book. After reading it, I felt as though everyone who lived through the Kennedy presidency must have felt: that I knew him and loved him.
Clarke, with his magnificent prose, does not present things in black and white, but puts things into context for the reader to better understand. With remarks like "because these statements were made after Dallas, they cannot escape the suspicion that they were motivated by a desire to paint the couples final days together as happy ones," he allows the reader to make a lot of their own decisions about Kennedy throughout the book.
I went into the book knowing little about Kennedy's presidency, but I enjoyed it immensely. The author includes just the right amount of politics and personal life. I especially enjoyed the offhanded quotes from the president that he included, giving you just a little glimpse into a candid Kennedy.