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Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation
318 pp.
| Holt |
June, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8050-9802-0$19.99
(3)
YA
O'Reilly contrasts the lives and deaths of JFK and his assassin Oswald in episodic chapters that recreate the 1960s and capture important moments. Photographs and illustrations are ample and well selected, and the narrative is energetic and easy to read. See also James L. Swanson's "The President Has Been Shot!", which offers a more in-depth (and less personal) treatment.