It is a good book and I did learn some things from it about JFK and the overall Kennedy "Machine". What I took away from it was that JFK helped to create modern political campaigning and what he was able to accomplish in his life with the physical infirmities he had was impressive. I wonder now if he would have accomplished even more had he not had the physical issues such as Addison’s Disease, the degenerative back, and all of the childhood diseases that kept him bedridden for weeks at a time and in and out the hospital or would he have just gone on as a playboy and never sought political office? The interesting part of this book is that Matthews does not at all discuss in much detail the assassination on November 22, 1963. He discusses Kennedy staying in Ft. Worth and leaving that morning to Dallas, but then he jumps immediately to one week later and how Jackie Kennedy visited with the Life Magazine writer (Ted White) who helped cement the theme of “Camelot” on the Kennedy Administration. I found that skip over a rather interesting ploy by Matthews and his editors. Since anyone reading the biography would likely already know what happened and there is so much that has been written about that tragic day that nothing new would have been revealed, but I get a sense that Matthews deep regard, indeed maybe even hero worship, of JFK prevented him from wanting to talk about that tragedy. He wanted to remember the “hero” in life and not how he died.