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London & New York: Routledge, 2013. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cutting-edge biography of the most idolized US president of the post-war period. 312pp with index, illustrated with 8 black and white photographs. Slight rubbing to edges and corners and laminate starting to peel at edges of cover, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions.
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- Title
- John F Kennedy
- Author
- Peter J Ling
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- n No Jacket
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415528860
- ISBN 13
- 9780415528863
- Edition
- y First Edition.
- Series
- Book 8 of 20: Routledge Historical Biographies
- Seller catalogs
- Biography
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.
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About the Author
Peter J. Ling is Professor of American Studies in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has been visiting professor of African American Studies at Emory University and visiting professor in Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His previous works include a highly-regarded biography of Martin Luther King Jr. (2002) and a history of the Democratic Party (2004).
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