JFK, 9780241972014
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Uncover the man behind the myth: JFK’s untold early years.
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JFK

volume 1: john f kennedy: 1917-1956

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  • Paperback

    816 pages

  • Release Date

    4 January 2022

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Summary

JFK: A Life Before Camelot

The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s much-garlanded masterpiece: ‘The most compelling biography I have read in years’ Max Hastings

By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston’s wealthiest, Kennedy…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241972014
ISBN-10:0241972019
Author:Fredrik Logevall
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:816
Release Date:4 January 2022
Weight:588g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 45mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

The most compelling biography I have read in years – Max Hastings * Sunday Times *Excellent … shaping up to be the definitive account of JFK’s life – Daniel Finkelstein * The Times, Book of the Week *Magisterial … an essential read – Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped UsHe makes JFK as alive and compelling as if you were reading about him for the first time – George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American CenturyJFK is biography at its very best – Andrew Preston * The Spectator *

About The Author

Fredrik Logevall

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, including 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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