So even with a few warts, Jackie's husband was a heroic, courageous man, a one of a kind real-human president, not playing an automaton to the strings of bankster puppetmasters behind the scenes. There's a natural sympathy among most Americans for Jackie, and a quality of admiration, sometimes adoration.

The title piqued my interest: 'Do you mean that Bobby Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy were hooked up romantically, had an affair or something?' She says, 'Duh.' So I figured I owed it to myself to look into the J&B phenom, turn to the lighter side of life for a while in my book review business. I decided to read the book when I saw it at a lady friend's house, and she said she'd got it for a song from one of those cheap-book crates outside the local public library. So the process of taking in the message of the author is a longer and more deliberate task, requiring an active intellectual approach to get the most appreciation.īobby and Jackie falls in the category of pleasure reading, for most of us: no particularly heavy concepts, nothing new ideologically, like bedtime stories for children or trying on a comfortable old pair of shoes.

It's like once in a while taking a bite out of a jelly donut, it tastes good, and with just a morsel you don't suffer any ill effects.īooks like Bobby and Jackie, though, while they deal with celebrities and famous ones, provide more than the titillation of living vicariously in the moment. Okay, I confess, lots of times when I'm in the supermarket, and in the checkout line, I'll read the gossip and celebrity tabloids. Please go to the new Coffee Coaster site implemented more gracefully in Wordpress.

Bobby and Jackie by C. David Heymann