John F. Kennedy (American Presidents Series) Book

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 224 Publisher: Times Books The young president who Ought vigor and glamor to the White House while he confronted Cold war Crises AOAD and calls for Social change at homeJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of President . He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961-the youngest man ever elected to the office-and he personified what he called the New Frontier as the United States entered the 1960s . But as Alan inkley shows in this incisive and lively assessment. the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend. His ief presidency encountered significant failures-among them the Bay of Pigs fiasco. which cast its shadow on nearly every national- security decision that followed. But Kennedy also had successes. among them the Cuban Missile Cris...Read More