Chris Matthews

Pickford Film Center & Village Books present "Writers in the Limelight." Join us for the screening of lectures and presentations from some of the most celebrated voices in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Watch author Chris Matthews discuss his book Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero in this special movie showing at the Pickford Limelight Cinema. (Author is not attending this event).

According to Publisher's Weekly: "Out of his gut interest in politics and love of reading biographies of American heroes, Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, probes the details of the 35th president's life and career to find out what Jack was like ..." Drawing on interviews with friends and former staffers, as well as on such familiar biographical incidents as Kennedy's rescue of the PT-109 crew and his resulting back injury, Matthews reveals a man who through inner direction and tenacious will created himself out of the loneliness and illness of his youth and who taught himself the hard discipline of politics through his own triumphs and failures ... Matthews's stirring biography reveals Kennedy as a "fighting prince never free from pain, never far from trouble, and never accepting the world he found."

This on-screen author talk will be showing at the Pickford Film Center's Limelight Cinema. Tickets are available through the Pickford Film Center.

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“If history at its best is about telling stories that bring the past to life, then Chris Matthews is a master storyteller, for this fascinating portrait brings Jack Kennedy more vividly to life than any recent work.” Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of TEAM OF RIVALS

“Chris Matthews has written an insightful, engrossing, and candid account about what made John F. Kennedy tick. Every chapter brims with colorful anecdotes, political yarns, fast-faced drama, and solid research. Jack Kennedy is a riveting read by one of America’s master political analysts. I give it ten gold stars!” Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge

Chris Matthews is the host of MSNBC’s Hardball and NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show. His bestselling books include Hardball, Kennedy & Nixon, Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, and American: Beyond our Grandest Notions.

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Chris Matthews discusses Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero.

Non-Member: $22.00 / Member: $15.00. We know so much about President John F. Kennedy, yet even his wife Jacqueline described him as “that elusive man.” To MSNBC Hardball Host Chris Matthews, Kennedy has long been both an avatar and a puzzle. For years, Matthews has been collecting Kennedy stories from those who knew him best. In Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, the bestselling author and Kennedy expert has woven those firsthand encounters with JFK into a great American novel, telling the tale of how Kennedy grew from a child of privilege into a war hero and finally president of the United States, all the while coping with a life-threatening disease. (jasbro)… (more)