JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

This engaging, sincere, and heartbreaking oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960–99) was published on the 25th anniversary of the deaths of JFK Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren when the plane he was piloting crashed. His former executive assistant Terenzio (Fairy Tale Interrupted) and McNeil (editor-at-large, People) have assembled an affectionate biography told by many people closest to him: his family, friends, coworkers, media personalities, and lots of former girlfriends. Their stories paint a picture of who he really was. In the public eye since his birth, he carried his father’s name but had few memories of him since he was three days shy of his third birthday when his father was assassinated. He graduated from law school and worked at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office from 1989 to 1993. In 1995, he and Michael Berman founded the political magazine George. He married Bessette in a top-secret ceremony in 1996, and the book shows their union was rocky.