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Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. [1] He is a specialist in U.S. politics and foreign policy.
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, (1917–1956) is a 2020 biography written by historian Fredrik Logevall.Published by Random House in September 2020, the work examines the education, military service, and political career of an American president who had acquired a great deal of his knowledge of International Relations in his early years.
The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U.S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.
Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall won a Pulitzer Prize for Embers of War, his 2012 book about 1945–59 Vietnam. His new book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956, is the ...
A record 84 million watched the first debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016. This year’s schedule The debates between Biden and Trump will be a historically early and will set the ...
The National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) is the largest interscholastic speech and debate organization serving middle school and high school students in the United States. [1] It was known as the National Forensic League from 1925 to 2014. [2] Many NSDA alumni have risen to the pinnacle of their respective fields, including the ...
Editor’s Note: Todd Graham is a professor of debate at Southern Illinois University.His teams have won five national championships; he’s been named the national debate coach of the year three ...
National Security Action Memorandum No. 263 was approved by President Kennedy on 11 October. NSAM 263 accepted the military recommendations of McNamara and Taylor, as follows: (1) changes to be accomplished by the government of South Vietnam to improve its military performance; (2) a training program for Vietnamese "so that essential functions can be carried out by Vietnamese by the end of 1965.