Contents


Preface: “A Certain Gallantry”

Part One: HIS MOTHER’S SON

1. “Please Don’t Do It”

2. The Son He Had Longed For

3. “John, You Can Salute Daddy Now”

4. “A Kennedy Never Gives Up”

5. “I Want to Help Him Go Back and Find His Father”

6. A Shoe Box Full of Diamonds

7. The Crown Prince

Part Two: JOHN ON HIS OWN

8. Just One of the Guys

9. “My Mother Will Be Frantic”

10. “I’m Not My Father”

11. “The Luckiest Man Alive”

Photographs

Acknowledgments

About Christopher Andersen

Sources and Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index