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Fredrik Logevall

Biography

Fredrik Logevall

Fredrik Logevall is Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and professor of history at Harvard University. A specialist on U.S. foreign relations history and modern international history, he is the author or editor of nine books, most recently EMBERS OF WAR, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize.

Fredrik Logevall

Books by Fredrik Logevall

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
by Fredrik Logevall - Biography, History, Nonfiction, Politics

Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade searching for the “real” JFK. The result of this prodigious effort is a sweeping two-volume biography that properly contextualizes Kennedy amidst the roiling American Century. This first volume spans the first 39 years of JFK’s life --- from birth through his decision to run for president --- to reveal his early relationships, his formative experiences during World War II, his ideas, his writings and his political aspirations. In examining these pre–White House years, Logevall shows us a more serious, independently minded Kennedy than we’ve previously known, whose distinct international sensibility would prepare him to enter national politics at a critical moment in modern U.S. history.