Incomparable grace : JFK in the presidency / Mark K. Updegrove.
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Incomparable grace : JFK in the presidency / Mark K. Updegrove.
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9781524745745
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[New York, N.Y.] : Dutton, [2022]
Physical Description:
viii, 355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- I: The torch. Transition -- "Let us begin" -- The second son -- Rising star -- "The center of the action" -- II. The fire. "How could we have been so stupid?" -- "You will never make it through Alabama" -- Showdown in Vienna -- Jackie -- The wall -- III. The brink. The brothers Kennedy -- Keeping the peace -- "We choose to go to the moon" -- "Going for broke" -- Ole Miss -- "The gravest issues" -- "Burden of choice" -- The knot -- "The antithesis of a politician" -- "Grace under pressure" -- IV. The peak. Birmingham -- Lyndon -- "To turn the world away from war" -- September song -- The march -- A coup in Vietnam -- Dallas -- "Let us continue" -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"Acclaimed presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation, offers an illuminating account of John F. Kennedy's brief but transformative tenure in the White House"-- Provided by publisher.
Nearly sixty years after his death, JFK still holds an outsize place in the American imagination. Updegrove offers an illuminating account of John F. Kennedy's brief but transformative tenure in the White House. He shows that JFK's presidency is a story of a fledgling leader forced to meet unprecedented challenges and rise above missteps to lead his nation into a new and hopeful era. The resulting profile is of a flawed but gifted leader too often defined by the Camelot myth that came after his untimely death. - adapted from jacket
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OCLC Number:
on1256588312
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