Thurston Clarke

5813. JFK's Last Hundred Days The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President, by Thurston Clarke (read & Dec 2022) This book was published in 2013, fifty years after Kennedy's death and thus with perspective on the events so carefully recounted. There is a 7 and a half page bibliography, showing me that I will never be able to read everything I will never be able all I would like to read on Kennedy and his era. The author well shows the brilliance of Kennedy, and that he had a healthy skepticism of what generals told him, something LBJ sadly lacked--with the result that over 50,000 American lives were needlessly lost in Vietnam. I admit that I supported the Vietnam war for far too long and this is another reason JFK's death was an unmitigated tragedy This is wise book and well worth reading even at this late date..… (more)