James W. Graham
Autore di Victura: The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea
Sull'Autore
James W. Graham was a senior advisor to former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar and the Illinois House of Representatives. He races and cruises his sailboat, Venturous, at Wilmette Harbor, north of Chicago.
Opere di James W. Graham
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- male
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 22
- Popolarità
- #553,378
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 4
- Lingue
- 1
Although the story purports the moral values the family learned, such as loyalty to each other, those values from my reading, only extended to the Kennedy core clan and less to those of their spouses and the world around them. The story also tells how the Kennedy's were raised with a sense of serving others and the contributions they have made to this world because of lessons learned from Victura. To me, I had problems, because although the book tells of the moral values and good the Kennedy's accomplished, it tends to ignore their moral failings, unless they were well publicized. Upon finishing this book, I found myself wondering whether or not the Kennedy sense of servitude was merely a tool to keep them in good standing with the public.… (altro)