These Few Precious Days

They were the original power couple-outlandishly rich,impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kenne-dys in their final year together, #1 NewYork Times bestselling biographer Christopher Andersen shows us a sideof JFK and Jackie we've never seen before. Tender, intimate, complex, and, attimes, explosive, theirs is a love story unlike any other-filled with secrets,scandals, and bomb-shells that could never be fully revealed ... until now.Andersenreveals stunning new details about the Kennedys' rumored affairs-hers as wellas his-and how they ultimately overcame all odds to save their marriage; thepresident's many premonitions of his own death and how he repeatedly tried topull out of his last fateful trip to Dallas; shocking revelations about how thecouple, unaware of the dangers, became dependent on amphetamine injections, thereal reason-according to his longtime personal physician-for JFK's notoriouslibido; how the tragic death of their infant son Patrick led to an emotionaloutpouring from the president that surprised even their closest friends-andbrought JFK and Jackie closer than they had ever been; and touching firsthandaccounts of the family's most private moments, before and after theassassination.Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted with the Kennedys' innercircle-from family members and lifelong friends to key advisors and politicalconfidants-Andersen takes us deeper inside the world of the president and hisfirst lady than ever before. Unsparing yet sym-pathetic, bigger than life butall too real, These Few Precious Days captures the ups anddowns of a marriage, a man, and a woman, the memories of which will continue tofascinate and inspire for generations to come.