There are so many books written about JFK that one person could not read them all in a lifetime. This is a good summary.

Book was good.

AWESOME!

This series of books is so excellent to get a quick review of a topic. Love JFK. Just needed a good review of his way too short life.

Grosset & Dunlap Penguin Group

Date&time : 7/9(Tue.)=28min50sec. / 7/10(Wed.)=17min. / 7/15(Mon.)=42min30sec. / Total=88min20sec.

7-word summary
1.Weak 2.Swimming 3.Hero 4.Politician 5.President 6.Youngest 7.Shot

Discussion Question
Q: He was the youngest and the first Catholic president and he was also a hero in WWⅡ. Who do you think the most impressive prime minister is in Japan?

A: I think Hirobumi Ito is. He was the very first prime minister in Japan and he did four times.


I am not good at politics, so I tried to read this book in order to know more. However, I finally could not understand well. Though I am still weak at politics, I could understand what JFK did and it was great. To be the first at something is not always important, but he did really good job. I want to know about politics and him more.

106 pages. This was a very helpful book, explaining the very interesting life of a famous American President. I learned a lot about President Kennedy and especially liked the drawings and additional information about Irish immigration and Pearl Harbor. This would be a great book to read while students are studying WWII, 1950-60s or race to space. Highly recommended for Grade 5 and up.

This was roughly my 60th read from the Who/ What/ Where? series, and quite a disappointment.

The illustrations are extremely subpar, the likenesses are poor (not likenesses at all). JFK and Jackie Kennedy are highly recognizable historical figures.. kids are hardly going to get an idea of what they looked like from this book.

It's shorter than most biographies in the series, which are usually 112 pages long. This one ends on page 100 and felt even shorter. I'm positive there is more information that could have been offered on his life (and death) - the kind of information and further explanation I've come to expect from the series.

It paints JFK in completely rose-colored light, and fairly insubstantial light at that (with the exception of the PT-109 section). Just a young man from a big family who was president for 1000 days. The Who books, despite their young target audience, usually do not shy away from tough facts and hard topics, a.k.a. the simple truth. Even the Who book on Jackie lets on that he wasn't a perfect husband. (I found Jackie's book much more informative.) This author suggests that JFK's life was extremely tame, all newspaper reading and rocking chairs. "It was a busy life, but a productive and happy one, too."
Caroline's birth isn't even mentioned.

This made me cringe:
"ROSEMARY (WHO WAS RETARDED) WAS BORN IN 1918."
This statement calls for better choice of words. Or just remove the note in parenthesis altogether. The majority of the other Kennedy siblings are mentioned no further than their name.
And besides, from what I can gather, Rosemary was born with learning and developmental disabilities, later in life she had bouts of depression and seizures, but it was actually the lobotomy her father had done to her in her early 20's that incapacitated her.

Another paragraph that irked me:
"As president, John Kennedy eagerly supported American space exploration. He promised that by the end of the 1960's, an American would land on the moon. He was right. In 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. It took him four hours and fifty-five minutes to circle the planet three times." (End of topic.)
He was right? Support that statement with a moon landing! Let's set an example to kids on how to write!

I've come to expect much better from these Who books. I'd suggest a rewrite on this one.

its a very short book about a very great person .

Who Was John F. Kennedy Written by Yona Zeldis McDonough. Was a crewman on a boat that sunk during WW2 and saved many lives. His father was an Irish business man, and Rose who had 2 kid one of them were John Fitzgerald Kennedy. In college he was their for a semester before leaving to help his dad. later on In life he was elected president, and stop segregation. Then JFK was assassinated and his presidency was cut short. This connect because this book was written by someone else,and I give this book 2 stars because it was not my type of book. I recommend this to anyone who likes history.

Who Was John F Kennedy
John F Kennedy was the first Catholic president and the youngest. He was a man that saved his men from the sinking of the PT-109 in World War 2. He was famous for these words ''My fellow Americans, do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for the country.'' And he got killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. What I think of this person is that he is not scared of saying what he wants to say and he was a brave person.

[Parent's review]
Before reading this book, I didn’t know much about JFK except that was a young president who got assassinated, had a beautiful fashion icon wife Jackie.
I didn’t know that he was from an immigrant family, who originally came to this country penniless. I didn’t know that his Irish background once was discriminated by the “main stream culture” in US. I didn’t know that he was a sick and weak boy growing up under pressure from competing with his older brother. I didn’t know that he did not have close relationship with his mother. I didn’t know that he ran public office only because his father demanded him to fill in his father’s hope originally for his big brother. And I didn’t know that his assassin was killed after being arrested and killed live on TV. JFK nevertheless died young, and sudden, his whole life is so full and legendary.
What relates me or surprises me most is that being immigrants in this country (I didn’t know that even within wealthy white population, they have this discrimination toward Irish decedents.) The other day, I was chatting with my friends on “mingling in this culture” when I first came to this country 1o years. I tried hard to adopt the “American way”, to mingle in, and only to realize years later that there are actually so many “American ways” and people in this country don’t really care what way you are as long as you share the fundamental core values that we human kinds all welcome: love, care, and respect. So after so many years living in this country, I ended up comfortably being myself—the “Chinese way”

This book was a simple, informative, and interesting book. It started out with John as a young sick boy but went to him being a teenager and playing outside with his many siblings in their front yard of one of their mansions. It then went on to explain his political life and how he became president. In the end, it explained how his life came to an end by a horrible assassination.

I did not know much about kennedy