Young John Kennedy Author:Gene Schoor Product Description: — "I don't like to lose," he said once. All his life John F. Kennedy looked for challenges. And never more so than in his early years and young manhood. First it was the fierce and friendly rivalry with his older brother, Joe, Jr. Then it was trying to make the football teams he wasn't big enough for... overcoming poor grades... more »... fighting constant injuries to win a swimming meet or to get into a Navy that had turned him down. In the beginning, as at the end, there was always so much that had to be done, in his own way, with courage and determination. The reader will find this biography a fascinating study of our late President. Private conversations, letters never before published, humorous and tragic glimpses of school and home life, paint a vivid portrait of John F. Kennedy... a young man destined to make history.« less