JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and The Emergence of a Great President Audiobook

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• “Thurston Clarke’s JFK's Last Hundred Days does a marvelous job of reliving Camelot’s fragile promise. Clarke is a masterful storyteller and able researcher. This book sings. Highly recommended.”

  — Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Cronkite

• “Thurston Clarke has done the seemingly impossible: He has found a revealing new angle of vision on John F. Kennedy that brings the president and his times back to vivid life. This is excellent narrative history.”

  — Jon Meacham, New York Times bestselling author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

• “The noted historian makes the case that JFK, who had just lost his infant son, was on the verge of vast achievement before his assassination.”

  — People

• “Even half a century has not dulled our fascination with John Fitzgerald Kennedy. This book by veteran author Thurston Clarke charts the last hundred days of JFK’s life. Its time delineation is not purely arbitrary: During that brief period, the president suffered the loss of his premature two-day-old son, suspended his philandering, and made significant moves in policies involving the Cold War, Vietnam, and civil rights. With its riveting day-by-day accounts, this readable narrative makes one imagine how history might have been different had he lived.”

  — Barnes&Noble, editorial review

• “Mr. Clarke is a good storyteller…[He] offers an enjoyable snapshot of the day-to-day workings of the presidency.”

  — Economist

• “Thurston Clarke’s JFK’s Last Hundred Days manages to surprise and…to delight.”

  — Associated Press

• “A gracefully written, fresh look at the oft-told story.”

  — Dallas Morning News

• “There will be few, if any, contributions more entertaining and informative than Thurston Clarke’s comprehensive chronological telling of his last 100 days in office.”

  — Financial Times

• “Clarke does an interesting and in many ways persuasive job of what he proposes at the beginning: ‘to view John F. Kennedy through every prism and search through all his compartments during the crucial last hundred days of his life—days that saw him finally beginning to realize his potential as a man and a president—in order to solve the most tantalizing mystery of all: not who killed him, but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led us.’”

  — Washington Post

• “[A] compelling portrait of one of the towering figures of twentieth-century America.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “Certainly demonstrates that three often painful years in office had taught Kennedy valuable lessons…Clarke delivers a thoroughly delightful portrait.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “A graceful, bittersweet chronicle…Clarke clearly admires Kennedy but does not ignore his flaws…An absorbing narrative.”

  — Library Journal

• “A fascinating, close-up look at the final dramatic months of a young president's life. Thurston Clarke’s portrait of Kennedy is masterful in this compelling convergence of history and biography.”

  — Bob Herbert, distinguished senior fellow at Demos and former op-ed columnist for the New York Times

• “Clarke makes the drama, the excitement, and the dark side of Camelot seem like only yesterday—indeed, you feel as though you’re right there, in the Kennedy White House, at Hyannis Port, and aboard Air Force One with JFK, today.”

  — Strobe Talbott, president, Brookings Institution