Chris DeRose
Here is the incredible, never before told story of the blonde bombshell who won the hearts of John F. Kennedy and Adolf Hitler. Inga was among the most compelling people of the twentieth century. Scott Farris reveals the secrets she tried to take to her grave in a masterful, suspenseful book that reads like a spy thriller but is, in fact, all true. I could not stop turning pages until the end.
Kate Andersen Brower
Scott Farris pulls back the curtain on a fascinating era in American history and an intriguing woman who lived through it. Inga Arvad’s complexity is what makes the book so compelling. It seems she lived multiple lives and was part of the brightest and darkest moments in twentieth-century American history.
Nigel Hamilton
Scott Farris’s Inga is a jewel of a book—for Inga Arvad led a life that no novelist could have invented. Danish by birth, an immigrant American by choice, she bewitched men by her beauty, her journalistic flair, and that rarest of talents: to make others feel better about themselves than perhaps they had a right to. Inga’s extraordinary life story takes us across whole continents, featuring financiers, filmmakers, adventurers and politicians—including, most spectacularly, the young JFK. It is the stuff of legend—yet every word is true, told by a biographer of great sensitivity, narrative skill, and unremitting honesty.
Nathalia Holt
In this beautifully detailed biography, Scott Farris shines a light on the complex life of Inga Arvad, a woman who received admiration from Hitler and sincere love from JFK. With exhaustive research and a fast-paced narrative, Farris reminds us that Arvad was more than just a pretty face, but a woman of tremendous influence and ability, one whose story deserves to be told.
Liz Smith
[A] a revealing and startling new book.. .. a great read in this stressful election season.. .. Hollywood’s leading men were mad for Inga.. .. a notorious, fascinating, and unpredictable life!. .. it would make a fabulous movie.
Andrew Nagorski
Scott Farris has written a meticulously researched, scrupulously sensitive account of Inga Arvad’s truly remarkable odyssey and her genuine romance with the young John F. Kennedy. A page-turner par excellence, Inga disentangles fact from fiction about the woman who enchanted everyone from Hitler to Hollywood stars.
The Wall Street Journal
[Almost President is an] engaging study of men who came up short in the presidential arena but still had a significant effect on the life of the nation….
JANUARY 2017 - AudioFile
Danish journalist Inga Arvad is the complex woman who is purported to be the greatest love of JFK’s young adult life. She was also a special guest of Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Inga was a gossip columnist who was suspected of being a Nazi spy. The countless Hitchcockian twists and turns of her story are articulately recounted, though the author’s narration leaves much to be desired. Farris takes a workmanlike approach. His delivery lacks any notable flair to engage listeners to follow the breakneck tour of Arvad’s life. Sadly, several French expressions are mangled in pronunciation. A little-known great beauty who led an intriguing life is brought to life— but without much listening appeal. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
