Joshua, Son of None

I read this book 30+ yrs ago-it left quite an impression! It has always stayed with me. Over the years I've told friends about it & searched high & low for another copy to no avail... . I'd just about given up on ever getting my hands on one. So glad I now have a copy! This book she be put back on the sheles! I will treasure this.

What if John F. Kennedy were cloned shortly after his assassination? How would a scientist carry it off and under what rationale? Who would raise him? Better still HOW would he be raised so that when grown the "clonee" had the same environmental influences? Could he change the world yet again?Nancy Mars Freedman explores all of this in this remarkable work. Explored with scientific fact, speculation on future events and most especially with humility and feeling. A remarkable book.

I read this book when I was in high school...I remember back then my teacher telling us that the Kennedy family wanted this book out of print for fear that John John would be upset by the idea that a clone was killed before his time and with John John being the closest thing to a JFK clone that he would be killed b4 his time also...I have been waiting for someone to say this on tv and to make some kind of analogy to this book....yet no one has....This book ahs stayed with me all of my life...I found it amazing and the best book I ever read....I am now a Biology Teacher and I tell my students about this book every year...I try to keep it alive in my own way...

I remember reading this book in the '70's and was just telling someone about it last weekend. I came here hoping against hope to be able to find a copy. What an experience! It really rocked me when I read this book. Some scenes from the book are still so vivid in my mind -- the shooting, the stealing of the cells. Wow... after all these years, I can still remember it. I hope the publisher will see fit to reissue this book. With all the pertinent stuff in the news these days, it would be a perfect fit. I for one would buy a copy in a heartbeat.

I was given a copy of this book in a nonchalant manner, about 15 years ago. It looked small and quite unimpressive. I took it mostly to be polite. But the giver was a rare person, so I knew the book would be too - even if it were not something I would usually read for myself. Once I began reading it, however, I COULD NOT put it down! It was fast-moving, expertly presented, and the idea was TOTALLY unheard of then. Just as we now look at early science fiction about the moon, Mars, and robots and exclaim about how true it all became, so I now see this book taking its place as one of those "predictors of the future." For sure, cloning has been a science fiction dream for quite awhile. And "Joshua, Son of None" was the first book I've ever seen on the subject. Now, with the reality of cloning hitting the world over, this book is finding its own place just as "The Martian Chronicles" did........