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...Andersen C. Fisher '99 expressed frustration at having to pay $15 to FedEx his vote, but he said that he wanted to vote for representatives from his home state of Texas...
...clan to line a presidential library, no biographer until now had chosen to focus so explicitly on the relationship between the fun-loving, womanizing John Kennedy and the more aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy (Pocket Books; $23) purport to be about the marriage, what they are mainly about is sex, sex, sex--with the emphasis on extramarital...
...unions of mere mortals, of course, the true dynamics of the Kennedy marriage remain essentially unknowable. But encountering this mystery at the core of their projects slowed down Andersen and Klein not at all. Using dozens of interviews and piles of documents--with a fair amount of overlap--the authors seize the opportunity to repeat some familiar Kennedy dirt and dig up a few new tidbits of their own. What intimate psychological revelations there are rarely rise above this level: "What drew them together?" Andersen asks. A friend of Kennedy's answers, "They were two lonely people, and they instantly...
...newsbreaks in these books come not in the form of profound revelations about the Kennedys as a couple but in the addition of new notches to their bedposts. Add Audrey Hepburn to Kennedy's, says Andersen, and William Holden to Jackie's. Andersen says it is likely, and Klein firmly claims, that Jackie lost her virginity in a Paris elevator to author John P. Marquand Jr. Klein describes, in a scene that begs credulity, how Jackie asked a CIA agent to ship her diaphragm from Washington to Italy so she could sleep with Gianni Agnelli...
...handwriting analysis in the Washington Post. In fact, one of his worst performances was on the weekend before the New Hampshire primary when, enraged by the New York article, he publicly berated the magazine's political columnist, Jacob Weisberg, and questioned the professionalism of editor in chief Kurt Andersen and Vassar professor Donald Foster, the Shakespearean scholar who had analyzed Klein's prose...