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TITLE: JFK: RECKLESS YOUTH...
Life is short. Biography is long. Nigel Hamilton's massive JFK: Reckless Youth takes the playboy politician only to 1946, when he was first elected to Congress at the age of 29. There are thousands of pages to come...
Apart from unsafe wenching, Kennedy was not as reckless as the subtitle proclaims. He cut up a bit at prep school and wrote raunchy, callow letters ("Have jewed sled down to $3 and maybe down more"). But there was none of the wildness usually associated with offspring of rich, flamboyant families. Instead we find a likable boy with a cool head and an IQ of 119 who was more interested in good times than good grades. He was a competent sailor, played some football and swam competitively until stomach trouble, fevers and a puzzling weight loss curtailed his activities...
...Reckless Youth also traces the political development of John F. Kennedy '40. During his junior year Kennedy allegedly wrote an unsigned editorial for The Harvard Crimson in which he argued for the appeasement of Hitler. The editorial supported his father's belief that the Allies could...
...most sections of JFK: Reckless Youth which deal with Kennedy's time at Harvard focus on events with much less political significance...