JFK

Volume 01: 1917-1956

JFK
Fredrik Logevall
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9 Sep 2021 UK
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9780241972014
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The first of this two-part landmark biography of John F. Kennedy, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall, takes the reader from 1917, when Kennedy was born, to 1960, when he was elected President. It shows how a boy born on a middle-class street to Boston Irish-Catholics became the most powerful leader in the world, and how this personal story was intertwined with the rise of the United States to the peak of its power. Thanks to a lifetime of reading, research in archives across America taking in everything from school reports to lovers' letters, and new material not available to previous biographers, Logevall paints a fresh picture of JFK, explaining where our present image is mistaken, and for the first time putting him in his international context. With an authority and a lightness of touch echo Robert Caro on Lyndon B. Johnson, he explores the complex relationship between JFK and his father (Ambassador to Britain, 1938-1940), the influence of his politics-obsessed mother, his playboy years at Harvard (encouraged by his father), his early health scares, and his early bestseller based on his undergraduate thesis - and how these experiences all shaped his presidency. This is an authoritative but entertaining account of one the most important and fascinating figures of the twentieth century.
In this magisterial biography, Fredrik Logevall has deftly peeled away the many layers of myth surrounding John F. Kennedy to reveal a complex and surprisingly vulnerable human being. This first installment of his Kennedy biography is also the story of the rise of the United States to world power in a turbulent age. It' s an essential read for anyone interested in the life and the times -- Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us Our best Vietnam War historian now turns to another subject you thought you already knew, and he makes JFK as alive and compelling as if you were reading about him for the first time. Fredrik Logevall portrays the young Kennedy with the masterful intimacy and sympathy that only a great scholar and writer could achieve -- George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Fredrik Logevall' s brilliant biography rescues JFK from the myths that have long surrounded his early life without in any way obscuring the complexities of his character. There could be no more poignant reminder of what we were-far too soon-to lose -- John Lewis Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century. With JFK, Fredrik Logevall has re-invented the genre of presidential biography, casting new light on the man and, far more profoundly, on the times. A brisk, authoritative, and candid biography, and a wonderfully compelling history of America' s heady and troubled mid-century rise -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States Superb . . . a product of formidable international research * Washington Post on ' Embers of War' * A monumental history . . . widely researched and eloquently written -- Wall Street Journal on ' Embers of War' Fascinating, beautifully written * Foreign Policy on ' Embers of War' * John F. Kennedy was a man before he was a monument, and among the great achievements of this wonderful book is how brilliantly Fredrik Logevall conveys both JFK' s humanity and the history of the age. With precision and with grace, Logevall has given us a memorable portrait of a man and of the world that, before he shaped it, shaped him. A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book * Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America *
Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard' s John F. Kennedy School and Professor of History at Harvard University. A specialist on US foreign relations history and modern international history, he was previously the Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University. Before that he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies. Logevall is the author or editor of ten books, most recently Embers of War, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize, as well as the 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.
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ISBN-13: 9780241972014
Published: 9 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 816

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