How long does it take to read An Unfinished Life?
Robert Dallek
An Unfinished Life by Robert Dallek takes about 15 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 33 minutes
A long haul
First published 2003. 848 pages, about 233,200 words.
32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An Unfinished Life is the first authoritative single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades. Drawing upon firsthand sources, freshly unearthed documents, and never-before-opened archives, prizewinning historian Robert Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing the way we think about his life, his presidency, and his legacy. In a tale that stretches back to Ireland, An Unfinished Life describes the birth of the Kennedy dynasty, the complexity of Jack's early years, and the mixture of adulation and resentment that tangled his relationships with his mother, Rose, and his father, Joseph. Forced into the shadow of his older brother, Joe, Jack struggled to find a place for himself until World War II, when he became a national hero and launched his career. Dallek reveals for the first time the full story of Kennedy's wartime actions -- including the machinations that got him into the war despite severe disabilities -- and the true details of how Joe was killed, opening the door to Jack's ascendancy.
Subjects: Presidents, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Biography
