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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.
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 ...
The series is being touted as an American version of The Crown.
The series will be based on the critically acclaimed book “JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956” by Fredrik Logevall. The book, originally published in 2020, is the first part ...
Logevall, Fredrik, The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (1999). Lynch, Grayston L. Decision for Disaster Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs (2000) McKercher, Asa. Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era (Oxford UP, 2016). Muehlenbeck, Philip Emil.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was a patriarch of the Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime senator Ted Kennedy.
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwriter, profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.