The JFK Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

 Between the time that J.F. Kennedy was elected, and when he took office, a unhinged anti-Catholic extremist plotted a suicide bombing of the president elect. This sensationalized account reconstructs the plot and also goes into depth about Kennedy's life, his relationship with Jackie Kennedy, and what made Kennedy so successful and controversial. 

Here is another Brad Meltzer/Josh Mensch pseudo history. I think I liked it a little bit more than the Lincoln book, mostly because it was better edited. Although this one had some of the same kind of problem rehashing the same facts over and over, it was much better than the Lincoln one, as the page count suggests.  In modern society JFK is generally revered as one of the great presidents, but in this book Meltzer and Mensch portray him as a thoughtless womanizer who just happened to have a lot of charisma. They focus a lot on Jackie Kennedy and highlight JFK's neglect of her needs and feelings. In full disclosure, I accidentally returned it to Libby with 45 minutes left on the recording so they may have ended the book with a more upbeat assessment of JFK.  I am debating with myself whether I am going to put it on hold again just to listen to the last 45 minutes.  Maybe not. (2025, 304 p)