JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956
Autor Fredrik Logevallen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 sep 2021
'In his utterly absorbingJFK, Fred Logevall reconstructs not only a great man, but also his entire age'Brendan Simms, author ofHitler: A Global Biography
The 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.
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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 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 modern history.
Beckoned by this gap in our historical knowledge, Harvard professor Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade combing through material unseen or unused by previous biographers, searching for and piecing together the 'real' John F. Kennedy -- resulting in a masterpiece that reviews have agreed will be the definitive work. This first volume of this sweeping two-part biography spans the first thirty-nine years of his life, revealing his early relationships, his formative and heroic experiences during World War II, and his deeply fascinating romance with Jackie Kennedy. In examining these pre-White House years, Logevall chronicles Kennedy's extraordinary life and times with authority and novelistic sensibility, putting the reader in every room where it happened. This landmark work offers the clearest portrait we have of a remarkable figure who still inspires individuals around the world.
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'A riveting study of young JFK. Logevall has written a superb book.'David Runciman,Guardian
'A brisk, authoritative, and candid biography, and a wonderfully compelling history of America's heady and troubled mid-century rise'Jill Lepore, author ofThese Truths: A History of the United States
'[Fredrik Logevall] makes JFK as alive and compelling as if you were reading about him for the first time'George Packer, author ofThe Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book'Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author ofThe Soul of America
'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'Peter Conrad,Observer
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241972014
ISBN-10: 0241972019
Pagini: 816
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 44 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241972019
Pagini: 816
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 44 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Fredrik
Logevallis
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,
includingEmbers
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.
Recenzii
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]
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]