He was the second son, the sickly one. Not the chosen heir. But when war took Joe Jr., Jack stepped into history, and refused to blink.
This is the story of John F. Kennedy's rise: from privileged rogue to wartime hero, from freshman congressman to reluctant icon, from myth to martyr. Set against the flashbulbs of Camelot and the grinding machinery of Cold War politics, Jack captures a man both shaped by legacy and haunted by it.
Through triumph and scandal, back pain and back rooms, Jack mastered the levers of American power, and paid the price.