JFK, Monster?
“I knew that John F. Kennedy was a compulsive, even pathological adulterer, given to taking outlandish risks after he entered the White House. I knew he treated women like whores. And I knew he had more than a few issues with his father about toughness and manliness and all that.”
— Timothy Noah, “JFK, Monster”
But Did Kennedy have an appetite for subjecting those close to him to extreme humiliation? Should we re-evaluate our esteem for America’s 35th president in light of recent revelations?
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President Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, at a Borders store in New York.
“Can you tell me a day in which you have not had a drink?”
George Bush, the first line from his forthcoming memoir, his wife, Laura, asked…
Laura Bush’s Upcoming Book:
- Ms. Bush describes in vivid detail the circumstances surrounding the crash, which has haunted her for most of her adult life and which became the subject of questions and speculation when it was revealed during her husband’s first presidential run… “In those awful seconds, the car door must have been flung open by the impact and my body rose in the air until gravity took over and I was pulled, hard and fast, back to earth,” she says. “The whole time,” she adds later, “I was praying that the person in the other car was alive. In my mind, I was calling ‘Please, God. Please, God. Please, God,’ over and over and over again.”
- She suggested that his highly criticized fly-over of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was in the best interests of the victims and aid workers on the ground. “He did not want one single life to be lost because someone was catering to the logistical requirements of a president,” she says about the Katrina fly-over. “He did not want his convoy of vehicles to block trucks delivering water or food or medical supplies, or to impede National Guardsmen from around the nation who were arriving to help.”
- Ms. Bush also suggests, apparently for the first time, that she, Mr. Bush, and several members of their staff may have been poisoned during a visit to Germany for a G8 Summit.
- Ms. Bush takes on Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat who is speaker of the House of Representatives, for calling Mr. Bush “an incompetent leader” and for saying he lacked judgment, knowledge and experience. She also bristles at the insults thrown at Mr. Bush by the Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, quoting him as calling her husband a “loser” and a “liar.” “The comments were uncalled for and graceless,”
much more… NYTimes
Alternative cover for Tony Blair’s memoirs ‘The Journey’
“At age 9… So intense was his devotion that he landed a coveted Nixon bumper sticker and displayed it proudly on his bicycle basket — until a little girl in his neighborhood who favored JFK beat the stuffing out of him, bloodying his nose and ego. “I’ve never liked losing a political fight since,”
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HarperCollins is prepping to make the most out of the literary cash cow they have.
