Kennedy (Profiles in Power Series) - Softcover

Brogan, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582437490 ISBN 13: 9780582437494

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. To understand Kennedy's aims and achievements in the White House, it looks at Kennedy the man and outlines his background and early career and the influences upon him. Hugh Brogan shows Kennedy as a credible statesman, a man of solid achievement. His record as President was, broadly, impressive and would have been more so had he lived.

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From the Back Cover:

Kennedy.....A portrait of the man, not the myth

* "Crisp, fair minded, well informed, elegant and witty, Hugh Brogan's Kennedy is the best modern account of the Kennedy presidency....(Brogan) brings a fresh and enlightening perspective to this incisive portrait of a controversial American president." --- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
* Objective, concise examination of the aims and achievements of the Kennedy presidency without the distortions which sometimes surround the Kennedy Myth.
* Inviting, balanced discussion of topics such as Kennedy's successful candidacy, to the specifics of his domestic, foreign and economic policies and the impact of the assassination.
Every aspect of the life, achievement and (especially) the death of John F. Kennedy has been the subject of intense controversy, and the arguments will go on. Nevertheless, more than thirty-five years after his assassination, it is now beginning to be possible for readers and historians to take an objective view, away from the distortions of the Kennedy Myth. This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. It looks at Kennedy the man and, while not a full blown biography, the author necessarily outlines Kennedy's background. Kennedy assesses the influence of his background on his early career and outlook, as well as on his presidency, shows how Kennedy grew as a statesman in the job, and considers what he might have done had he been allowed to complete his term as president. Hugh Brogan examines Kennedy's successful candidacy, assesses his foreign policy, his agenda as a reformer, his part in the civil rights revolution and his handling of economic affairs. There is also focus on Kennedy as a Cold War president who was forced to interrupt his domestic agenda of Civil Rights reform in order to concentrate on international events such as tensions with the USSR and Cuba and the Vietnam War. This is a penetrating look at the Kennedy presidency which offers a detached study of John F. Kennedy and the realities of his American Camelot.

Hugh Brogan is the author of the best selling Longman/Penguin History of the USA.

About the Author:

Hugh Brogan is the author of the best selling Longman/Penguin History of the USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0582437490
• ISBN 13: 9780582437494
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260