Just finished "Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy" which is a transcript of unreleased recordings from the White House years and before and contains two CD's of audio. Like everything else I have read about JFK, this remarkable collection reveals a warts-and-all great leader with a brilliant mind whose untimely end left a jagged wrong turn for America. It is impossible to conceive of the Vietnam debacle as it rolled out under LBJ & Nixon had Kennedy not gone to Dallas.

I highly recommend this book for a very personal look at a remarkable man. ( )

This was pretty good for anyone interested in the Kennedys and the Kennedy Presidency. Though some of the sound quality was poor, the book more than makes up for it. Some of it is just Kennedy's friends trying to find out what it's like to be John F. Kennedy, asking him questions about his early political life...during some of it Caroline and John Jr. pop in for a delightful interlude... It's pretty interesting stuff. JFK even left the tapes going when he left the room. The people he left in there just kept right on talking, not knowing they were being taped. I especially enjoyed the talks between JFK and RFK.

The introductions are good, too. Lots of footnotes so you can sort out everybody that's being talked about.

All in all, a worthy addition to any Kennedy collection. ( )