JFK Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

Fredrik Logevall, Mark Deakins

eAudio - 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. “An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesWINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE • NAMED THE TIMES’ BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Sunday Times (London), New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, Kirkus ReviewsBy the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he h...ad steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish... more