JFK. Volume I 1917-1956

The first of this two-part landmark biography of John F. Kennedy, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall, takes the reader from 1917, when Kennedy was born, to 1956. It shows how a boy born on a middle-class street to Boston Irish Catholics became the most powerful leader in the world, and how this personal story was intertwined with the rise of the United States to the peak of its power.