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JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956

Autor Fredrik Logevall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 2020
The definitive biography of John F. Kennedy, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall. This is the untold story of how the rise of President Kennedy and the rise of the United States mirror one another - from 1917, when Kennedy was born, to 1963, when he died and the US was at the peak of its power. Full of new material from sources including a huge number of Oval Office tapes, a large volume of interviews with Jackie Kennedy, and never-before-seen CIA documents, Harvard professor Logevall focuses on international relations more so than any other biographer of this misunderstood figure. For example, he uncovers detailed material not only on President Kennedy's father as ambassador to Britain but also on his rapidly-established relationship with Harold Macmillan, and on his and Jackie's relationships with individuals in the United Kingdom. Peerlessly authoritative, this is a biography for the ages.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241185902
ISBN-10: 0241185904
Pagini: 816
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 57 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Fredrik Logevallis the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and a Professor of History at Harvard University. A specialist on US foreign relations history and modern international history, he was previously at Cornell University and 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, includingEmbers of War("remarkable"- Economist, "monumental"- WSJ) 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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The most compelling biography I have read in years...There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research...makes the story seem a cliffhanger even though we know what is coming
Excellent...shaping up to be thedefinitive account of JFK's life....Logevall has taken a familiar story and retold it in a way that iscaptivating and persuasive, as the tale of triumphant emergence from war and the tragedy of an immigrant family
In thismagisterialbiography, 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
Our best Vietnam War historian now turns to another subject you thought you already knew, andhe makes JFK as alive and compelling as if you were reading about him for the first time.Fredrik Logevall portrays the young Kennedy with themasterful intimacy and sympathy that only a great scholar and writer could achieve
Fredrik Logevall'sbrilliantbiography 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
An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century. WithJFK, 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
John F. Kennedy was a man before he was a monument, and among the great achievements of this wonderful book ishow 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
In hisutterly absorbingJFK, Fred Logevall reconstructs not only a great man, but also his entire age.The author's sense of place and context merits comparison with Robert Caro
High-octane historical biography, placing a major subject in anew and arrestinglight
In this first volume of Fredrik Logevall's definitive biography, JFK is all too engagingly and amiably human...I hope Logevall's second volume will follow soon...it is bound to be enthralling.
Riveting... superb
An extraordinarily rich picturethat fills in all kinds of background to the life
JFKis biography at its very best... Such are Logevall's storytelling powers that, even though we all know the outcome, it still feels like a cliffhanger
Other authors [...] have ably chronicled this epic saga, butnone has told the tale of the 35th president's formative years better or more thoroughly than the Harvard history professor Fredrik Logevall. . . Afastidiously diligent researcher. . .richly detailed and instructive. . . Logevallartfully melds the biographical and historical approaches
It is the singular achievement of thismagnificent new biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedythat it has taken one of the most scrutinised lives of the 20th century and made it feel fresh. Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall scrapes away the encrusted layers of myth, rumour and cliché
Superb.Why should you read the umpteenth book about the most famous of Kennedys? The short answer is that Logevall's book issmart and very readable. Logevall has agifted historian's grasp of the timesas well as the life of JFK.This reader had trouble putting it down
It is as good as anything that has been published about its subject,based on years toiling in the archives but written with a delightfully light touch... At times it readsmore like a novel than a biography, so vivid is the prose and so extraordinary the material...JFKreminds readers of what America once was -- and could be again
Few books came as larded with praise as Fredrik Logevall's book about the early years of JFK. It's amagisterial achievement, following the oversexed super-ambitious young Kennedy into wartime adventures and forbidden love affairs with Swedish spies. Crucially, it shows the formation of the character of one of the most important 20th-century politicians
The archival work issuperb
Professor Logevall's research isprodigiousand his writing bothelegant and persuasive; above all, however, his objectivity will serve asa model for historians seeking to achieve the still elusive goal of coming to grips with John F. Kennedy- "without tears."The only drawback for scholars and general readers will be the wait for volume 2
Even the most devout JFK aficionado will feel they have read their first biography after completing Logevall's [book]