JFK: Volume 2

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 35^th 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!