Jaunty voices backed by brass sing of, ". Among the tracks is the 1960 campaign jingle designed to appease those who viewed the candidate, then 43, as too green for the job. The package offers a fascinating social history. His voice is strangely inflectionless as it delivers the lines so often quoted since. These include the announcement of his presidential candidacy, the oath of office, the inaugural address of course, and speeches about civil rights, the space race, and at the Berlin Wall. An attractive small-format hardback, JFK: Remembering Jack, allows novices to get to grips with his life through an easily-digestible once-over-lightly account, rarely-seen public and private pictures, and a CD recording of the memorable sound bites. The headings were all there, but not the context. Then he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Responses ran mostly like this: he was a president of the United States, married to Jackie, fantastically wealthy but tragic family, had a presidential term which included the Cuban missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Before tackling the latest Kennedy biography, published in time for tomorrow's 40th anniversary of the assassination, I conducted a highly unscientific experiment, asking under-40s what they knew about him. By Robert Dallek Allen Lane (an imprint of Penguin), $49.95 JFK: Remembering Jack, By Christophe Loviny and Vincent Touze, Chronicle Books (distributed by Southern Publishers Group), $29.95. Both reviewed by JULIE MIDDLETON John F Kennedy: An Unfinished Life.
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