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JFK. [Vol. 1] Coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956 Edition: First edition

Name: JFK. [Vol. 1] Coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956 Edition: First edition
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ISBN: 9780812997149

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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 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...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Random House Publishing Group City: New York

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

081299714X

ISBN 13:

9780812997149