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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]
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.
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.
The series is being touted as an American version of The Crown.
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 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 ...
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.
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam is a 2012 book by historian Fredrik Logevall, then a professor at Cornell University.The book won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History, the inaugural American Library in Paris Book Award, and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award and was a runner-up for the Cundill Prize. [1]