'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'
Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'In his utterly absorbingJFK, Fred
Logevall reconstructs not only a great man, but also his entire
age' Brendan Simms, author of Hitler: 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.
________________ 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. ________________ '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 of These 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 of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New
America 'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book'
Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The 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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