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JFK : Coming of Age in the American Century ~ Fredrik Logevall HC/DJ
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Unused, unread, UNOPENED copy. Has a handmade overstock mark on the edge.”
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780812997132
- Book Title
- Jfk : Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, American Government / Executive Branch, American Government / State
- Item Weight
- 39.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 816 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812997131
ISBN-13
9780812997132
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038816467
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jfk : Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
Number of Pages
816 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, American Government / Executive Branch, American Government / State
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
39.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-003488
Reviews
"Our best historian of the Vietnam War now turns to another subject you thought you already knew, and he makes John F. Kennedy as alive and compelling as if you were reading about him for the first time. Fredrik Logevall portrays the young JFK 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 "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. It's a powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America "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 "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 "With JFK , Fredrik Logevall has reinvented the genre of presidential biography, casting new light on the man and, far more profoundly, on the times. This is 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, "Other authors . . . have ably chronicled this epic saga, but none has told the tale of the thirty-fifth president's formative years better or more thoroughly than the Harvard history professor Fredrik Logevall. . . . From all the carefully marshaled evidence a picture emerges of an uncommonly curious, sometimes frivolous but increasingly earnest young man on his way to shaping an informed, cleareyed, unsentimental sense of the world and his nation's place in it." --David M. Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review "A superb book . . . [The] remarkable rivalries within the Kennedy family--propelled by valor, vanity and greed--form the backbone of volume one of Fredrik Logevall's riveting life of JFK." -- The Guardian "As Fredrik Logevall points out in his utterly absorbing biography, the first of a projected two volumes, Kennedy deserves our attention not simply because he was a celebrity, but because his celebrity is a key to unlocking modern American history itself. . . . JFK is biography at its very best." -- The Spectator "This is the first of two volumes by a Pulitzer-winning Harvard professor of the highest gifts, and the most compelling biography I have read in years." --Max Hastings, The Sunday Times (UK) "It is the singular achievement of this magnificent new biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that it has taken one of the most scrutinized lives of the twentieth century and made it feel fresh. Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall scrapes away the encrusted layers of myth, rumour and cliché; the result is a generous portrait of the young Kennedy, one that is attentive to his contradictions and weaknesses even as it seeks to understand what it was that made him so extraordinary." -- The Telegraph "An excellent book . . . Logevall has taken a familiar story and retold it in a way that is captivating and persuasive, as the tale of triumphant emergence from war and the tragedy of an immigrant family." -- The Times (London) "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 "With impressive vision and flawless execution, Logevall bores down to a molecular level to put JFK's life and achievements within the context of the history of the times, while simultaneously exposing the truths obscured by the most popular JFK misconceptions." -- Booklist (starred review), "An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century . . . With JFK , Fredrik Logevall has reinvented the genre of presidential biography, casting new light on the man and, far more profoundly, on the times. This is 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, "An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century . . . With JFK , Fredrik Logevall has reinvented the genre of presidential biography, casting new light on the man and, far more profoundly, on the times. This is 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 "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. It's a powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
973.922092
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. "An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century."--Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE - NAMED BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR BY The Times (London) - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Sunday Times (London) - New Statesman - The Daily Telegraph - Kirkus Reviews By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston's wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history. And while hagiographic portrayals of his dazzling charisma, reports of his extramarital affairs, and disagreements over his political legacy have come and gone in the decades since his untimely death, these accounts all fail to capture the full person. Beckoned by this gap in our historical knowledge, Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade searching for the "real" JFK. The result of this prodigious effort is a sweeping two-volume biography that properly contextualizes Kennedy amidst the roiling American Century. This volume spans the first thirty-nine years of JFK's life--from birth through his decision to run for president--to reveal his early relationships, his formative experiences during World War II, his ideas, his writings, his political aspirations. In examining these pre-White House years, Logevall shows us a more serious, independently minded Kennedy than we've previously known, whose distinct international sensibility would prepare him to enter national politics at a critical moment in modern U.S. history. Along the way, Logevall tells the parallel story of America's midcentury rise. As Kennedy comes of age, we see the charged debate between isolationists and interventionists in the years before Pearl Harbor; the tumult of the Second World War, through which the United States emerged as a global colossus; the outbreak and spread of the Cold War; the domestic politics of anti-Communism and the attendant scourge of McCarthyism; the growth of television's influence on politics; and more. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 is a sweeping history of the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century, as well as the clearest portrait we have of this enigmatic American icon., A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. "An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century."--Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE * NAMED BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR BY The Times (London) * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Sunday Times (London) * New Statesman * The Daily Telegraph * Kirkus Reviews By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston's wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history. And while hagiographic portrayals of his dazzling charisma, reports of his extramarital affairs, and disagreements over his political legacy have come and gone in the decades since his untimely death, these accounts all fail to capture the full person. Beckoned by this gap in our historical knowledge, Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade searching for the "real" JFK. The result of this prodigious effort is a sweeping two-volume biography that properly contextualizes Kennedy amidst the roiling American Century. This volume spans the first thirty-nine years of JFK's life--from birth through his decision to run for president--to reveal his early relationships, his formative experiences during World War II, his ideas, his writings, his political aspirations. In examining these pre-White House years, Logevall shows us a more serious, independently minded Kennedy than we've previously known, whose distinct international sensibility would prepare him to enter national politics at a critical moment in modern U.S. history. Along the way, Logevall tells the parallel story of America's midcentury rise. As Kennedy comes of age, we see the charged debate between isolationists and interventionists in the years before Pearl Harbor; the tumult of the Second World War, through which the United States emerged as a global colossus; the outbreak and spread of the Cold War; the domestic politics of anti-Communism and the attendant scourge of McCarthyism; the growth of television's influence on politics; and more. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 is a sweeping history of the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century, as well as the clearest portrait we have of this enigmatic American icon.
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E842.L.555 2020
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