Before he was a President of the United States, John F. Kennedy was Jack. A rich boy from a rich family with a lot of siblings. He got into a lot of mischief with his siblings, cousins, and friends. He never wanted to be bored or have a dull moment in his life. Of course, his life had several tragedies in it, including the death of his brother and sister. This book goes into what Jack was like, before he was President. The book actually only devotes a couple of chapters to his career as President, which is not what I was expecting when I got this book.

I got this book a while back at my favorite used bookstore. I finally got around to reading it, and I was expecting the book to be heavily focused on his presidency. It did have some information in it about the Cuban Missile Crisis that I did not know, so it was worth the read for that alone. A lot of this information I had already read about in other books, because family dynasties are one of my favorite book topics. I think it was a good refresher book. If you are interested in Kennedy, this book was well researched and written in a way that was not boring at all to read. A lot of people shy away from nonfiction because of that, but this one was written in, what I would consider, a fast paced manner.