A companion to John F. Kennedy /
President John F. Kennedy remains a seminal yet enigmatic figure in American politics. This collection offers an overview of Kennedy's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates that surround his time in office.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicester, West Sussex, UK :
John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | President John F. Kennedy remains a seminal yet enigmatic figure in American politics. This collection offers an overview of Kennedy's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates that surround his time in office. The essays explore Kennedy's life before the presidency, his campaign for the White House, his dealings with Congress, the significance of his family and key advisers, and his relationship with the media and the military. Further studies examine his handling of hot spots in Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam, his management of related regional and global challenges, domestic concerns such as civil rights and the status of women, and the contentious debates that surround the tragedy in Dallas. A Companion to John E Kennedy brings together leading experts from around the world, offering new insights and a balanced reappraisal of JFK and his administration, and stands as the definitive guide to the evolution and current status of Kennedy scholarship. Marc J. Selverstone is Associate Professor and Chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, USA. He is the author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950 (2009), which won the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is currently writing The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam (forthcoming). --Book Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781118608869 1118608860 9781118608807 1118608801 9781118608760 1118608763 1306532132 9781306532136 1444350366 9781444350364 |