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American Adulterer: A novel

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From “a master of precision” (The Observer, London) comes an explosive, provocative novel about John F. Kennedy’s years in the White house: his political daring, his brave dedication to human rights, his devotion to his family—and his uncontrollable and unrelenting appetite for sexual adventure.

• Taut, magnificent prose: Mercurio’s premise—to chronicle Kennedy’s exploits,...more

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Published July 7th 2009 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2009)

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Aug 07, 2011 Maria added it · review of another edition

I really enjoyed this novel. I read it assuming a lot of it was fiction, so was not too concerned about the authenticity of the content. I very much enjoyed the writing style - for most of the book it is quite detached. The use of the word "the subject" for JFK really brings home the feeling one is looking into the fishbowl from the outside. The repeated use of the word "fornication" brilliantly echoes JFK's view on his activities in this area (within the novel at least). It also adds to the ove...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Jim Thornton added it · review of another edition

Well, that was an experience! I bought this book because I have a strong interest in JFK and I was keen to learn about this side of his life. Did I? Well, after 354 pages I'm still really not sure what mix of fact and fiction I read at all. I was fascinated to learn (if these are facts) about the much more significant health problems he suffered from than I was aware of, but again I'm left wondering about the veracity of much of it. Was this biographical? Or fantasy? Addditionally, the writing s...more

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May 06, 2013 Linda Lipko added it

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Purchased recently on the Barnes and Noble 75% off sale table, it took a long time to finish this book and I think the reason is that the style was convoluted and confusing.

There were too many vividly written pages of JFK's manifest sexual indiscretions.

Peppered throughout with his very serious medical conditions, it is amazing that JFK could function in the way in which he did. Finding "Dr. Feelgood" and his pills and injections enabled a very drugged and ill man to live another day.

While he...more Purchased recently on the Barnes and Noble 75% off sale table, it took a long time to finish this book and I think the reason is that the style was convoluted and confusing.

There were too many vividly written pages of JFK's manifest sexual indiscretions.

Peppered throughout with his very serious medical conditions, it is amazing that JFK could function in the way in which he did. Finding "Dr. Feelgood" and his pills and injections enabled a very drugged and ill man to live another day.

While he was a loving father and husband, his libido simply could not be controlled to one or two or three or four or five or one hundred women.

To say he was flawed was an understatement. But, to paint his entire life and presidency in negative shades, would not be realistic. And, the author does a credible job of showing a leader who, when confronted with the possibility of war, always turned the tide toward peace.

He was haunted by the disaster of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban crisis. When confronted by the thug of Russia, Premier Khrushchev, and his bombastic personality of threats, lengthy tirades and bullying, time and time again Kennedy stood firm but did not embrace war.

Very wary of involvement in South East Asia, Kennedy knew that it would be wrong to become enmeshed in this embattled nation.

When the Berlin wall was built, Kennedy was at his finest in stating that while Democracy may have problems, we do not have to build a wall to keep our people inside.

His courage in taking a stand against the travesty of the treatment of blacks in America cost him admiration. He was sickened by images of police clubbing and physically harming innocent people. He was viscerally upset by the emotional degradation of people who deserved better, especially because they risked their lives in a war to defend our nation.

I give this book two stars. It was worth the read, but it appeared as though the author didn't know if this should be a pornographic novel or a love poem for a flawed hero for whom many accolades and songs have been sung.(less)

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Feb 01, 2011 Paul Pessolano rated it 4 of 5 stars

This may be one of the most intriguing, controvesial, and fascinating books that I have read in a long time. "American Adulteer" is historical fiction that explores the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The book centers on the accusations of JFK's proclivity for sex, and if just half of what's in this book is true - all I can say is WOW!!!!!!

Although the book does not centr on his philandering, the book goes into great depth a to JFK's dream for America, the Cuban Invasion, the Cuban Missle Crises...more

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Oct 06, 2009 Elevate Difference rated it 5 of 5 stars

I’ll admit I am neither a friend of celebrity culture or the particular brand of it that centers on the Kennedys. I am, however, interested in sexual politics and thus in the normative institutions of marriage and monogamy and the hardly less institutionalized behaviors of male bonding. In many ways Jed Mercurio’s American Adulterer is a riposte to Ruth Francisco’s The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which a Publisher’s Weekly review described as a “fictionalized peek behind Camelo...more I’ll admit I am neither a friend of celebrity culture or the particular brand of it that centers on the Kennedys. I am, however, interested in sexual politics and thus in the normative institutions of marriage and monogamy and the hardly less institutionalized behaviors of male bonding. In many ways Jed Mercurio’s American Adulterer is a riposte to Ruth Francisco’s The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which a Publisher’s Weekly review described as a “fictionalized peek behind Camelot [that:] will satisfy only prurient interests.” Both novels are understandable constructs that allow conjecture from the historical record while allowing the authors and their publishers to evade the consequence of potential libel suits. Although the reviewer read only excerpts of the Francisco novel, hers is more novelistic and even literary than Mercurio’s.

American Adulterer might be described as an apologia for habitual, compulsive adultery during the time a character—called "the Subject" by the omniscient authorial voice speaking in present tense—spent as President of the United States, with flashbacks to early periods of his life sufficient to shed light on the behavior as exhibited in the White House under conditions of scrutiny and Secret Service security. A medical doctor, the author also regales us with clinical details of the subject’s multiple maladies—adrenal insufficiency, a painful back, gastrointestinal disease, allergies, and the side effects of steroid therapy. A sickly youth, the subject nonetheless served in the military and was a war hero, but by the time he reached the White House is poor health, managed by a team of physicians and a rogue Dr. Feelgood. A back brace is fingered as a contributing cause to his shooting, proving lethal in the final pages.

An account of how compulsive sexuality can jeopardize careers of men, especially powerful men, is a useful corrective for feminists more commonly concerned with the destabilizing effects romance and sexual obsession can have on women, with dangerous consequences to their educations and careers. As the narrative proceeds from ejaculation to ejaculation (and from bowel movement to bowel movement), readers who are after more than prurience will become aware of the vast protective apparatus that props up public figures—and I mean more than the Secret Service—the advisers and administrative infrastructure on which they depend and which have a minute by minute view of one’s conduct of life. How these constrain the subject’s behavior is a timely reminder for those who look to a particular individual as a hero of reform. Knowledge about someone’s predilection for fellatio under a desk is not the only leverage outside interests have on a political figure. And for those, like me, not particularly attracted to political figures, the familiar rationalizations for male sexual behavior suggest the continuing need for further explication of sexual politics, a half-century after these fictional facts took place.

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Jul 25, 2011 Tiffany added it · review of another edition

If even half of the extra-marital activity in this book is remotely true, then it's a wonder JFK had time to govern. Likewise, it's a miracle he had the presence of mind to chew gum and walk in a straight line given the amout of medication he was supposedly on. I found the accounts of his ongoing illnesses fascinating - that was new information to me.

Interesting fictionalised story of JFK's time in office. However, there were way too may forced and overly obvious parallels drawn with Clinton and...more

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Oct 20, 2009 Yolanda rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Mar 13, 2010 kit rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

American Adulterer views John F. Kennedy's life through a semi-fictional lens, the main focus being on the extra-marital affairs he conducted whilst President. In the notes Mercurio states that most of these affairs are beyond independent verification, hence the artistic licence the author takes.

I have studied JFK at various points during my academic life, but this book offered a new angle, which is what compelled me to read it. I found the writing to be a little clunky sometimes, with repetitio...more

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Jun 30, 2012 Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Very clinical discussion on the physiology and the psychology of an adulterer. "The Subject" was a combination of JFK and Bill Clinton, at least in my estimation, while JFK is on the cover and most of the escapades of "The Subject" reek of JFKs philandering there are some Bill and Monica moments included other heads of state and dignitaries from other countries also make an appearance from time to time.

It was fascinating in the clinical sense of how the 'toxins' are believed to build up in the a...more

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Jun 14, 2009 Samantha rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is a fiction book. I didn't realize that when I chose it. The author takes liberties with events, times and conversations. He rearranges things in a time line that fits his story. The story he tells is of President John F. Kennedy however he never really refers to him as that. He refers to him as the subject. The subjects covets whatever. It gets annoying and makes the story hard to follow. Bobby Kennedy isn't really even mentioned in the book. However beards that escort his ladies of that...more

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Aug 04, 2011 Matthew Kresal rated it 4 of 5 stars

The life and times of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, have fascinated readers for the better part of the last fifty years. On the surface then British writer Jed Mercurio 2009 novel American Adulterer would appear to be just another one of the thousands of books written about JFK. Yet Mercurio's novel is more then that. It is an intriguing fictionalization of the thousand or so days of the Kennedy presidency and of Kennedy himself.

Mercurio is a medical doctor by...more The life and times of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, have fascinated readers for the better part of the last fifty years. On the surface then British writer Jed Mercurio 2009 novel American Adulterer would appear to be just another one of the thousands of books written about JFK. Yet Mercurio's novel is more then that. It is an intriguing fictionalization of the thousand or so days of the Kennedy presidency and of Kennedy himself.

Mercurio is a medical doctor by training and he approaches the novel with a cold, clinical style. The first chapter introduces us to “the subject” as Mercurio refers to Kennedy throughout the novel and the conflicting aspects of his personality: a devoted family man who loves his wife but nevertheless is a philanderer and can find no problem being both at the same time and a man who appears to the world to be healthy but is in constant pain from secret ailments. From there the novel goes through the ups and downs of the Kennedy presidency from the Bay of Pigs to the decision to send men to the Moon, from the Berlin Wall going up to the Cuban Missile Crisis and to a fateful trip to Dallas, Texas. Along the way “the subject” takes in a number of affairs and tries to deal with the various ailments he suffers from as a small group of doctors tries to treat him for them, sometimes making them worse not better. Mercurio uses this approach to fill in the gaps left by the historical record to insert what might well have been JFK's hopes, fears and thoughts about the events he found himself in and does so in a way that is quite convincing for the most part. The result is something that perhaps can only happen in fiction: the chance to get inside the head of one of the most famous figures of the twentieth century in his roles as husband, father, adulterer, commander in chief and leader of the free world.

American Adulterer also recreates the world around JFK vividly. Mercurio rarely calls anyone by their name and usually refers to them by first name or a title such as Frank for Frank Sinatra, Marilyn for Marilyn Monroe, the Director for FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and so on for the various members of government and the Kennedy entourage. The characterizations are fascinating to read at times from Frank's anger at “the subject” having to end their friendship over his mob ties, Marilyn desperately wanting to become first lady and what happens when it becomes clear that isn't going to happen, and the Director's dogged investigation of “subject” once the Perfumo affair in the UK begins having links to the US government. There are times when characterizations and dialogue don't quite work through, such as the one dimensional characterizations of various generals and in particular there are some wooden and unrealistic exchanges between “the subject” the director towards the end of the novel. Overall though the novel recreates the thousand days of the Kennedy presidency rather well.

None of that is to say that American Adulterer is perfect though. The clinical approach can be off putting at times as it gets too personal about some of the ailments such as compering explosive diarrhea to nuclear warheads exploding for example. Also, despite seeming to be a well researched novel there are things which make the reader wonder just how well researched it really it. Take the most glaring omission, which is the lack in any size, shape or form of the man who was arguably closest to JFK: his brother Robert who was the attorney general. While this is a work of fiction, it's hard to believe that Mercurio wasn't aware that Robert Kennedy was privy to and played a crucial role in many of his brother's decisions. More forgivable is the occasional altering of events such as moving Kennedy's famous Ich bin ein Berliner Speech from June 1963 to right after the Berlin Wall went up during the summer of 1961 or having mathematician John Nash (made famous by the book and film A Beautiful Mind) showing up at the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis to brief JFK on how his game theory predicted the US winning a preemptive nuclear war (which as far as I can tell never happened). Yet these may well be minor flaws compared to something else.

If there's anything really odd about about American Adulterer it is that to some degree Mercurio spends a good deal of the novel talking about a president whose name isn't Kennedy but Clinton (who cameos in the novel briefly as he actually meet JFK as a student in 1963). The bibliography at the end of the novel lists three books about President Bill Clinton as sources and at times it shows. For example there's are several scenes in the book which finds “the subject” and a woman named Mary smoking pot in the Lincoln bedroom or a scene set during the Cuban Missile Crisis when “the subject” has an intern climb under the oval office desk. Perhaps the biggest moment where this becomes clear is when the FBI Director brings in a special investigator named Kenneth to ask “the subject” if he's had sexual relations with a number of women. While many have made analogies between the two men and while it makes sense to place them in what is admittedly a fictional setting, the result is a distracting one to say the least and it only hurts the novel rather then serving it.

What can be said then to sum up Jed Mercurio's fictionalized take on the Kennedy presidency? It is blessed with an intriguingly original clinical approach to its narrative and with some excellent characterizations as well. Yet some of its failings from at times far too personal descriptions, glaring and obvious omissions or unsuccessful attempts to put infamous elements of a later presidency into the Kennedy presidency leave the reader with an odd feeling about the novel. As such then,American Adulterer makes for at times odd reading but it is never anything less then intriguing.(less)

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Feb 05, 2010 Anne rated it 3 of 5 stars

Still in the middle of this one. I was interested in how a writer would depict the romp that was allegedly Kennedy's backstage life. The narrative decision, tho, to make this a case study--literally, told through the voice of an unusually patient clinician--is a bit straining. Some interesting bits on Jackie's anger, the cramps in your style that being a president puts (you become a taboo god-thing, and no one wants to get near the new spooky you, plus you have no more privacy for ducking into n...more

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Jul 19, 2009 Erin Christmas rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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May 05, 2010 Sylvie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Audiobook: At times, I did not like the reading. The sound (voice) was different from chapter to chapter ... that bothered me. It was the first time I've experienced something like this. Usually you cannot notice when the reader starts a new session ... but that was a technical issue.

The book? Although not a bio but a novel, I tend to think that it can be quite close to reality ... OK the introspective talk that JFK may have with himself can be a bit strong but ... view from a man, maybe he has...more

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Aug 13, 2009 Amy rated it 1 of 5 stars

Something I would not have picked up if not for an Advanced Reader. I did like Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife, American Adulterer not so much. It is told from a third person narrator, which I typically do not like. The writing is "ok" at best. I do not know much/anything about the Kennedy's, the politics or the personal so it has spiked my curiosity and I'm thinking of reading An Unfinished Life. Mercurio's main points, Kennedy had sex with lots of women to relieve his headaches, Marilyn Monr...more

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Jul 25, 2009 Monica rated it 2 of 5 stars

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I've been a big fan of the fictional biography lately - I love Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates and I found American Wife compelling (if flawed). When American Adulterer was suggested on Very Short List, I immediately thought this was right up my alley.

Turns out it wasn't. The clinical references to JFK as "the subject" and Jackie as "the wife", etc. was distancing and silly for me. Since this seems to be focused almost exclusively on the sexual history of JFK I was expecting some high-interest fun,...more

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Mar 01, 2010 Elly rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Wel een aardig boek. In ieder geval interessant wat geschiedenis update betreft. Het laat je de begin jaren zestig weer beleven en de spanning weer voelen die er toen wereldwijd heerste. Ook ik, die toen nog een kind was, kan me nog goed herinneren hoe iedereen Kennedy destijds een held vond dat hij de Cubacrises bedwong door zijn persoonlijk optreden. Zijn charisma moet geweldig geweest zijn. Dit boek laat een hele andere kant van hem zien, die he...more

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Jul 03, 2010 Vincent Eaton rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Very odd, clinical, precise novel on JFK & sex. It compels without demanding the reader's affection...
...after completing, I thought, Now that's a good novel. Though it strayed in repetitious territory (as do most tales dealing with any sort of addiction) it never stayed there. It's rare a novel tackles in such a focused way the sexual needs of a male. It had to do with male power, sexual power, and political power. Which, inversely, also dealt with woman's lack of power, and the ways they n...more

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Feb 08, 2010 Ann rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book professes to be a novel but deals with JFK. The book is presented as a clinical study, and the clinical approach makes the details of JFK's health and womanizing especially coarse and sordid. Among other things the author presents the early blunders of JFK's presidency (The Bay of Pigs and the Berlin Wall) as resulting from his being distracted and weakened by the physical ailments he sought to hide. The writer is the king of the run-on sentence. Inasmuch as I've not read any other boo...more

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Jan 02, 2013 Elpheaba rated it 2 of 5 stars

I give this book two stars for some ridiculous premises, and an egregious error. I was appalled to read that "the subject" called someone and informed them that only the commander-in-chief could declare war. Now, I realize that our last few Presidents seem to believe this sentiment, I am unaware that our Constitution has been changed. Mr. Mercurio, only Congress can declare war, not the commander-in-chief, and I am fairly sure that JFK knew that. I understand it was fiction, but I struggle with...more

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Jul 28, 2012 Jess rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I like the way this was written. It was interesting that our main, philandering character was never actually named throughout. We get a firsthand (albeit fictional) account of "the subject" as he makes his way through the presidency and many, many women. I had heard of Kennedy having health problems but I didn't realize how bad they actually were. The end of the novel poses an intriguing theory to me. If he hadn't been in a back brace from neck to groin, could he have ducked once the shots were...more

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Aug 27, 2012 Debbie Orta rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One very interesting take on what it might have been like to be JFK as President. Told as though from within his mind, it delves into the theory that he was a sex addict, and you get a view of the presidency from that perspective. Who knows, some of the thinking may be accurate, and it may be indicative of what went on in time and place, but there is no way to know what went through his mind from one moment to another. As a trash novel it's well written and fun, sort of a sexual Forrest Gump rew...more

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Nov 02, 2010 Frannie rated it 2 of 5 stars

American Adulterer looks closely at John F. Kennedy’s lecherous tendencies while in office. The book tries to make the case that JFK cheated on his wife because he had difficulty concentrating, developed headaches, and in general, had a hard time getting his presidential work done if he didn’t have a lot of sex with a lot of different women. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman or maybe it’s because I don’t go for the “boys will be boys” attitude, but I did not buy into the argument that JFK not only...more American Adulterer looks closely at John F. Kennedy’s lecherous tendencies while in office. The book tries to make the case that JFK cheated on his wife because he had difficulty concentrating, developed headaches, and in general, had a hard time getting his presidential work done if he didn’t have a lot of sex with a lot of different women. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman or maybe it’s because I don’t go for the “boys will be boys” attitude, but I did not buy into the argument that JFK not only “needed” to have a lot of sex, but he “needed” to have sex with a variety of different women. This may have impacted my overall take on the book (note the sarcasm – it definitely impacted by take on the book).

I will say, I was surprised to read that JFK was in almost constant pain because of his Addison’s disease, back problems, and bowel issues. I don’t know if the book is totally accurate on this point, but in the book he is getting daily injections of painkillers and downing a variety of other medications. He juggled multiple doctors to ensure he got the different treatments he thought he needed. Now, I understand trying to cope with chronic pain and how distracting it can be, but even JFK’s myriad health problems seemed to take a back seat to his need to get down with the ladies.

I’ll admit there was a little bit of prurient interest in picking this book up. JFK was known as a bit of ladies man so I thought his love life would make for an interesting novel. But my god, it felt like this book was all about sex and his various health problems. Every important point in his presidency (and adult life) was set against the backdrop of his insatiable need to have sex and/or how much pain he was in. If JFK’s mental energy was really so strongly focused on sex and pain, I honestly don’t know how he accomplished anything. This laser focus made the book feel a little repetitive by the time I got to the end.

In the book’s defense, I did want to read more about JFK once I had finished it. I want to find out how much of Mercurio took liberties with the historical record and where he stuck with the truth. I mean, could all of this possibly be true? I find this happens to me pretty regularly – I’ll read a historical novel that is just okay, but it drives me to read more about the subject because I want to learn more. I suppose this shouldn’t be surprising – I read so many historical novels that they can’t all be good. So while the story in American Adulterer wasn’t that great it will definitely drive me to pick up a biography or two on JFK (recommendations are welcome).

In a nutshell: American Adulterer was just okay, but I’ll definitely be reading more about JFK. Two and a half stars.(less)

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Dec 30, 2010 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I'm treating the part about Kennedy's infidelity as fiction because there's no way in the world this British author would have any idea what was going on in JFKs head during all these moments and if indeed he did actually sleep with all these women. It does touch on his affair with Marilyn and another actress which makes me wonder how he got away with it. It's so interesting that back then the media actually didn't care what a politician did in his personal life. What a change from today. I will...more

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Jul 07, 2009 Wendy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm not sure what I expected from this book outside of it being much more fictionalized than it was. I'm of the opinion (which I realize is controversial) that what our leaders do in their private lives (in terms of sex) is really none of our business. And I happened to like beleiving (even though I knew it wasn't true) that Kennedy wasn't a rotten human being. This book definitely takes any of the romance or delusions anyone might have had about Kennedy away - and quickly. He's painted as a fai...more

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Apr 23, 2011 Joseph rated it 2 of 5 stars

The book is a fictional piece on JFK and it could've been more real then fake. It is about his adultering ways before and after becoming president. I read other peoples reviews and really made me think, yeah this book wasn't that good. He is talked upon as a 3rd person and often referred to as "the subject." After 200 pages of it I was like enough already... The book was sort of lame and I thought more was going to happen as opposed to him banging his interns. I had to skim a lot more of that.

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Mar 14, 2010 Madeleine rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ik vond het een lastig te lezen boek.Voortdurend handelend over de "betrokkene". Ook vond ik het heel treurig, nooit geweten dat Kennedy er fysiek zo beroerd aan toe was. Tja, dat voortdurend aan je gerief moeten komen omdat je helemaal stijf staat van de hormonen zal ook niet meevallen.
Eigenlijk vind ik dat hij gelijk had met te zeggen dat zijn prive leven niemand wat aanging, zolang je je werk naar behoren doet........
Enfin, een andermans "boek" is moeilijk te lezen.

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Jan 10, 2011 LCPL Lake County (IN) Public Library added it · review of another edition

"This is a fictional account of JFK's presidency exploring his philandering, his serious health problems, his political principles, and his family life. Like more recent biographies of JFK that acknowledge his sexual and medical problems, this novel presents a rather objective view of his life, exploring on his courage, intelligence, progressive view of foreign affairs, and other strengths as well as his weaknesses."
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Nov 22, 2012 Bethany rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book reads more like a hybrid sociology and history textbook with some creative license than a novel. Kennedy is referred to as "the subject" throughout and some historical events are dramatized a bit. As a work of fiction, creative license has been taken in many areas, but some historical aspects can still be accurately found throughout. The book takes the reader through the extent of Kennedy's presidency and unless you have historical context, you may get lost as to what year it is and w...more

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May 03, 2013 Roberto Machorro rated it 4 of 5 stars

The author goes deep into the brainworks of an philanderer, from a tactical and moral perspective. Almost like a documentary. Very well researched.
It's hard to tell where facts end and fiction starts. That also means this book was extremely well written and hard to put down.

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