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JFK Volume 1 de Fredrik Logevall

JFK Volume 1

Autor Fredrik Logevall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 sep 2021

În 1917, într-o Americă ce se pregătea să își revendice rolul de putere mondială, se năștea John F. Kennedy într-o familie de imigranți irlandezi care reușise să urce rapid treptele succesului în Boston. Considerăm că această scenă de început nu este doar debutul unei biografii, ci fundamentul unui mit care a definit secolul XX. Fredrik Logevall ne transportă în saloanele opulente ale familiei sale și pe punțile navelor din Al Doilea Război Mondial, oferind o perspectivă cinematică asupra omului din spatele imaginii publice. Putem afirma că acest prim volum, care analizează primii 39 de ani de viață, reușește să transforme faptele istorice într-o narațiune vibrantă. Logevall nu se limitează la cronologie; el reconstruiește atmosfera unei epoci și transformarea unui tânăr ambițios într-un lider global. Pe același raft cu An Unfinished Life de Robert Dallek, dar cu un accent pe rigoarea cercetării de arhivă și pe o fluiditate narativă ce amintește de beletristică, lucrarea de față propune un portret mult mai nuanțat și mai puțin idealizat. Merită menționat că autorul își folosește experiența de istoric premiat pentru a integra viața lui JFK în contextul ascensiunii Statelor Unite. Dacă în Embers of War Fredrik Logevall analiza mecanismele complexe ale implicării americane în Vietnam, aici el se concentrează pe formarea caracterului care va trebui să gestioneze acele crize. Stilul este autoritar, dar cald, oferind detalii despre relațiile sale de familie și povestea de dragoste cu Jackie, făcând ca întreaga istorie să pară surprinzătoare, în ciuda faptului că îi cunoaștem deznodământul.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241972014
ISBN-10: 0241972019
Pagini: 816
Dimensiuni: 128 x 197 x 49 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor care doresc să descopere omul real dincolo de mitul „Camelot”. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei pasionați de istoria politică a secolului XX, oferind o analiză metodică a anilor de formare ai lui JFK. Câștigați o înțelegere profundă a modului în care educația, războiul și ambiția personală pot modela destinul unui lider mondial, totul într-un stil narativ captivant.

Despre autor

Fredrik Logevall este profesor de istorie la Universitatea Harvard și un specialist recunoscut în relații internaționale și istorie americană. Anterior, a predat la University of California, Santa Barbara. Este laureat al Premiului Pulitzer pentru istorie, distincție acordată pentru lucrarea Embers of War, în care a explorat originile conflictului din Vietnam. Expertiza sa în epoca Războiului Rece și atenția la detaliul documentar se reflectă în abordarea sa asupra vieții lui Kennedy, reușind să îmbine rigoarea academică cu o scriitură accesibilă și dinamică.

Notă biografică

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School and Professor of History at Harvard University. A specialist on US foreign relations history and modern international history, he was previously the Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University. Before that he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies. Logevall is the author or editor of ten books, including Embers of War, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize, as well as the 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Recenzii

The most compelling biography I have read in years...There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research...makes the story seem a cliffhanger even though we know what is coming
Excellent...shaping up to be the definitive account of JFK's life....Logevall has taken a familiar story and retold it in a way that is captivating and persuasive, as the tale of triumphant emergence from war and the tragedy of an immigrant family
In this magisterial biography, Fredrik Logevall has deftly peeled away the many layers of myth surrounding John F. Kennedy to reveal a complex and surprisingly vulnerable human being. This first installment of his Kennedy biography is also the story of the rise of the United States to world power in a turbulent age. It's an essential read for anyone interested in the life and the times
Our best Vietnam War historian now turns to another subject you thought you already knew, and he makes JFK as alive and compelling as if you were reading about him for the first time.Fredrik Logevall portrays the young Kennedy with the masterful intimacy and sympathy that only a great scholar and writer could achieve
Fredrik Logevall's brilliant biography rescues JFK from the myths that have long surrounded his early life without in any way obscuring the complexities of his character. There could be no more poignant reminder of what we were-far too soon-to lose
An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century. With JFK, Fredrik Logevall has re-invented the genre of presidential biography, casting new light on the man and, far more profoundly, on the times. A brisk, authoritative, and candid biography, and a wonderfully compelling history of America's heady and troubled mid-century rise
John F. Kennedy was a man before he was a monument, and among the great achievements of this wonderful book is how brilliantly Fredrik Logevall conveys both JFK's humanity and the history of the age.With precision and with grace, Logevall has given us a memorable portrait of a man and of the world that, before he shaped it, shaped him. A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book
In his utterly absorbing JFK, Fred Logevall reconstructs not only a great man, but also his entire age. The author's sense of place and context merits comparison with Robert Caro
High-octane historical biography, placing a major subject in a new and arresting light
In this first volume of Fredrik Logevall's definitive biography, JFK is all too engagingly and amiably human... I hope Logevall's second volume will follow soon...it is bound to be enthralling.
Riveting... superb
An extraordinarily rich picture that fills in all kinds of background to the life
JFK is biography at its very best... Such are Logevall's storytelling powers that, even though we all know the outcome, it still feels like a cliffhanger
Other authors [...] have ably chronicled this epic saga, but none has told the tale of the 35th president's formative years better or more thoroughly than the Harvard history professor Fredrik Logevall . . . A fastidiously diligent researcher . . . richly detailed and instructive . . . Logevall artfully melds the biographical and historical approaches
It is the singular achievement of this magnificent new biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that it has taken one of the most scrutinised lives of the 20th century and made it feel fresh. Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall scrapes away the encrusted layers of myth, rumour and cliché
Superb. Why should you read the umpteenth book about the most famous of Kennedys? The short answer is that Logevall's book is smart and very readable. Logevall has a gifted historian's grasp of the times as well as the life of JFK. This reader had trouble putting it down
It is as good as anything that has been published about its subject, based on years toiling in the archives but written with a delightfully light touch... At times it reads more like a novel than a biography, so vivid is the prose and so extraordinary the material... JFK reminds readers of what America once was -- and could be again
Few books came as larded with praise as Fredrik Logevall's book about the early years of JFK. It's a magisterial achievement, following the oversexed super-ambitious young Kennedy into wartime adventures and forbidden love affairs with Swedish spies. Crucially, it shows the formation of the character of one of the most important 20th-century politicians
The archival work is superb
Professor Logevall's research is prodigious and his writing both elegant and persuasive; above all, however, his objectivity will serve as a model for historians seeking to achieve the still elusive goal of coming to grips with John F. Kennedy - "without tears." The only drawback for scholars and general readers will be the wait for volume 2
Even the most devout JFK aficionado will feel they have read their first biography after completing Logevall's [book]

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'The most compelling biography I have read in years . . . There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research . . . makes the story seem a cliffhanger even though we know what is coming' Max Hastings, Sunday Times

'In his utterly absorbingJFK, Fred Logevall reconstructs not only a great man, but also his entire age' Brendan Simms, author of Hitler: A Global Biography

The 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.
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By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston's wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in modern history.

Beckoned by this gap in our historical knowledge, Harvard professor Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade combing through material unseen or unused by previous biographers, searching for and piecing together the 'real' John F. Kennedy -- resulting in a masterpiece that reviews have agreed will be the definitive work. This first volume of this sweeping two-part biography spans the first thirty-nine years of his life, revealing his early relationships, his formative and heroic experiences during World War II, and his deeply fascinating romance with Jackie Kennedy. In examining these pre-White House years, Logevall chronicles Kennedy's extraordinary life and times with authority and novelistic sensibility, putting the reader in every room where it happened. This landmark work offers the clearest portrait we have of a remarkable figure who still inspires individuals around the world.
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'A riveting study of young JFK. Logevall has written a superb book.' David Runciman, Guardian

'A brisk, authoritative, and candid biography, and a wonderfully compelling history of America's heady and troubled mid-century rise' Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States

'[Fredrik Logevall] makes JFK as alive and compelling as if you were reading about him for the first time' George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book' Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America

'In this first volume of Fredrik Logevall's definitive biography, JFK is all too engagingly and amiably human . . . I hope Logevall's second volume will follow soon' Peter Conrad, Observer