A lively, concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history. Of all the US presidents of the post-Second World War period, John F. Kennedy is the most clearly idolized. There is a well-documented gulf between the public's largely positive appraisal of this glamorous historical figure and professional historians' skeptical and mixed evaluation of a president who had only a foreshortened single term in which to make his mark. What made JFK the man he was? How does he fit into the politics of his time? What were his policy goals, how did they shift, and how far did he manage to advance them? What was the Kennedy style of governance? Why was he killed and how can we explain the unprecedented outpouring of grief that his death elicited? How has his memory evolved since 1963? Acclaimed biographer Peter J. Ling explores all these important questions, sifting and synthesizing the prodigious mass of Kennedy scholarship to provide readers with a fresh and strongly contextualized portrait of the man and his presidency. John F. Kennedy will be essential reading for students of modern American history and anyone else seeking to understand the political and private life of America's best known president.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415528863
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183103976
Product Key Features
Author
Peter J. Ling
Publication Name
John F. Kennedy
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Politics, History
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
363g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Peter J. Ling
Series Title
Routledge Historical Biographies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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