A Question Of Character: A Life Of John F. Kennedy

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By Thomas C. Reeves

The Free Press, 1991, 510 pp

A relentless cataloguing of J.F.K.'s sexual immorality: enough detail to depress even the most dedicated hero-worshipper, but thin on the deeper implications of personal misbehavior for American politics.

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