New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 509, [3] pages. DJ has some wear and soiling, and a small portion mission especially at the rear. Signed and dated on the title page by the author: Barbara Leaming, May 31, 2006. Includes Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Source Notes, and Index. Also includes 18 chapters, and 54 black and white photographs of Jack Kennedy and his family. Ephemera from a book signing is laid inside the front cover. Barbara Leaming is an American biographer, whose subjects have included Roman Polanski, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She was a long time professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Hunter College in New York City until she left to devote herself to writing full-time.[2] Her articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Magazine. In 2006 Leaming turned from the film world to the world of politics and history with her biography Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman. Christopher Hitchens declared in The Atlantic Monthly: "The great merit of Barbara Leaming's new book is to demonstrate how dependent the young Kennedy became upon a charmed circle of British noblemen, and also how obsessed he became with the need to match himself with that greatest of Anglo-American aristocrats, Winston Churchill." In the London Sunday Telegraph, Christopher Silvester wrote of Leaming's JFK book, "No previous biographer has focused so sharply on Kennedy's attempts to apply Churchillian thought during his years in the White House. '. More