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Offers a nuanced assessment of the thirty-fifth president, whose legacy and impact people continue to debate to this day. Stephen Knott examines Kennedy through the lens of five critical issues. What emerges is a president as complex as the author’s shifting views about him.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Refounding the Presidency
  • 2. The Hundred Years’ War
  • 3. Finding His Voice: “We face . . . a Moral Crisis as a Country”
  • 4. Cuba: The Sins of William McKinley
  • 5. Khrushchev, Kennedy, and the “Nuclear Sword of Damocles”
  • 6. “In the Final Analysis, It is Their War”
  • 7. No Assassins to the Left
  • 8. Legacy
  • Notes
  • Index

    Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy

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        Publisher: University Press of Kansas
        Publication Date: 30/10/2022
        ISBN13: 9780700633654, 978-0700633654
        ISBN10: 0700633650
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Offers a nuanced assessment of the thirty-fifth president, whose legacy and impact people continue to debate to this day. Stephen Knott examines Kennedy through the lens of five critical issues. What emerges is a president as complex as the author’s shifting views about him.

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgments
        • Introduction
        • 1. Refounding the Presidency
        • 2. The Hundred Years’ War
        • 3. Finding His Voice: “We face . . . a Moral Crisis as a Country”
        • 4. Cuba: The Sins of William McKinley
        • 5. Khrushchev, Kennedy, and the “Nuclear Sword of Damocles”
        • 6. “In the Final Analysis, It is Their War”
        • 7. No Assassins to the Left
        • 8. Legacy
        • Notes
        • Index

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