num_pages: 544
description: No issue is more hotly debated than how, or even if, a politician's private life affects his public competence. In 
  A Question of Character
 John F. Kennedy's two lives—public and private—are examined to answer this timely question. Respected historian and biographer Thomas C. Reeves reveals discrepancies between JFK's public persona, which has reached mythic proportions, and his scandalous private behavior. Most illuminating is the constant theme of Joe Kennedy's almost total control of JFK's behavior and politics throughout most of his son's career.  "The John Kennedy who emerges from these pages was not a man of good moral character. He was reared not to be good but to win." — Los Angeles TimesReeves has provided the most truthful and balanced assessment of John F. Kennedy to date. Written more in sorrow than in anger, A Question of Character explores the sensitive and difficult question of how people, and history itself, ought to judge the relationship between personal character and national leadership.
language: English
title: A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy
titlecomplete: A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy
genres: Politics, American History, American, The United States Of America, Biography, Biography Memoir, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 225
publisher: Three Rivers Press