3.25 out of 4 stars.

Ever since I was younger I had a fascination with the Kennedy Family. I am assuming growing up in Massachusetts only made that obsession stronger. It wasn’t until the past few years that I really started to grasp the dark side of the history and all that I was blind to when I was reading about them in school. Call me naive or call me a romantic but I always felt that they were the first political family that had any sort of “star quality”. They were our own royal family. I wanted to ignore all those other scandalous stories and just see the all American power couple.

Last year I read a book called, “Mrs. Kennedy and Me” by Jackie’s secret service detail that I absolutely loved. It gave a perspective from the eyes of a man that was let into her very private world. She confided in him and he was able to not say one bad word about her. This made me happy to hear because it enabled me to believe again that she was a strong woman despite letting her husband philander around. If you are a Jackie fan I definitely think this is a great book to pick up because it is a rare perspective given. Not a lot of stories give such detail into her life. She is usually referred to as JFK’s statue.

In this book, “The Few Precious Days” it focuses more on the couple as a whole and their marriage. I was surprised to hear they consider themselves two introverts but after reading I realized it was true. JFK refers to “putting on the B.P. – big personality” whenever he walked into a room but he was just happy reading the paper in the bathtub. While it was not unusual for Jackie to request for her and “Jack” to schedule a nap time every day so they could get a lone time.

Although it is tough to assume that there could be any love between them due to the obvious affairs going on that Jackie was fully aware but she stands strong that she preferred some waves to easy waters. A quote from the book, “Jack was no Boy Scout, but then a Boy Scout would have bored her senseless”.

I recommend picking it up because it demonstrated that everyone is human. The couple that so many people idolized had flaws and they still came back to one another every time. Their story is a modern day romance with an open concept that was not common back then. This is especially true for an Irish Catholic President that was under EXTREME scrutiny at all times.