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After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8,
1960, over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower's former vice
president, John F. Kennedy became the thirty-fifth president of the
United States. But beneath the stately veneers of both Ike and JFK,
there was a complex and consequential rivalry. In Rising Star,
Setting Sun, John T. Shaw focuses on the intense ten-week
transition between JFK's electoral victory and his inauguration on
January 20, 1961. In just over two months, America would transition
into a new age, and nowhere was it more marked that in the
generational and personal difference between these two men and
their dueling visions for the country they led. The former general
espoused frugality, prudence, and stewardship. The young political
wunderkid embodied dramatic themes and sweeping social change.
Extensively researched and eloquently written, Shaw paints a vivid
picture of what Time called a "turning point in the twentieth
century" as Americans today find themselves poised on the cusp of
another watershed moment in our nation's history.
Before John F. Kennedy became a legendary young president, he was
the junior senator from Massachusetts. The Senate was where JFK's
presidential ambitions were born and first realized. In the first
book to deal exclusively with JFK's Senate years, author John T.
Shaw looks at how the young senator was able to catapult himself on
the national stage.
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