The Road to the White House

JFK: Volume 2

*The inspiration for the forthcoming Netflix series KENNEDY* 
 
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the second volume of this sweeping biography of one of the most mythologized figures in modern history. 
 
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. 
 
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. 
 
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and a Professor of History at Harvard University. Logevall is the author or editor of ten books, including Embers of War ("remarkable"- Economist, "monumental"- WSJ) which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Fredrik Logevall's successor to the prize-winning first volume spans John F. Kennedy’s groundbreaking election campaign, from his star performance at the 1956 Democrat Convention, through his trail-blazing election campaign as an outsider, to his election as the 35th president — the youngest in US history. 
 
In examining Kennedy’s rise to pre-eminence in these years, Logevall shows us a JFK emerging from his father’s shadow. Despite suffering from ongoing health problems, Kennedy campaigned like no one had before, harnessing the TV age and connecting with voters, from his right hand swelling to twice its size from shaking hands in the cold and Jackie grabbing the tannoy in supermarkets to tell people to vote for him, to the TV debate against Richard Nixon watched by 70 million people - 65% of the US' adult population - culminating in his legendary inaugural address on 20 January 1961. 
 
In chronicling Kennedy's extraordinary rise and times, with authority and novelistic sensibility, putting the reader in every room where it happened, Logevall's landmark second volume paints the clearest portrait of JFK as leader, orator, author, reader (he took out more books from the Senate library than any of his peers), husband, father, son and president!

Fredrik Logevall

The most compelling biography I have read in years

Excellent . . . shaping up to be the definitive account of JFK's life

Magisterial . . . an essential read

Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us

He 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 and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

JFK is biography at its very best

Volume 1: John F Kennedy: 1917-1956

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece: 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings 
 
 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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The most compelling biography I have read in years

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Magisterial . . . an essential read

The most compelling biography I have read in years

Excellent . . . shaping up to be the definitive account of JFK's life

Magisterial . . . an essential read

The most compelling biography I have read in years

Excellent . . . shaping up to be the definitive account of JFK's life

Magisterial . . . an essential read

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