Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman
"An absorbing and enjoyable book."—New York Times Book Review

Drawing on new primary sources, this biography is the first to detail the influence of British history, literature, and culture—in particular, the ideas of Winston Churchill—on America's thirty-fifth president. For the first time we trace the friendships and forces that led to the White House and shaped Kennedy's actions there. In this intimate portrait of a leader torn between politics and principle, we finally come to know the man Kennedy wanted to be and to understand his long, private struggle to become that man.
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Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman
"An absorbing and enjoyable book."—New York Times Book Review

Drawing on new primary sources, this biography is the first to detail the influence of British history, literature, and culture—in particular, the ideas of Winston Churchill—on America's thirty-fifth president. For the first time we trace the friendships and forces that led to the White House and shaped Kennedy's actions there. In this intimate portrait of a leader torn between politics and principle, we finally come to know the man Kennedy wanted to be and to understand his long, private struggle to become that man.
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Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman

Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman

by Barbara Leaming
Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman

Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman

by Barbara Leaming

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"An absorbing and enjoyable book."—New York Times Book Review

Drawing on new primary sources, this biography is the first to detail the influence of British history, literature, and culture—in particular, the ideas of Winston Churchill—on America's thirty-fifth president. For the first time we trace the friendships and forces that led to the White House and shaped Kennedy's actions there. In this intimate portrait of a leader torn between politics and principle, we finally come to know the man Kennedy wanted to be and to understand his long, private struggle to become that man.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393329704
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 08/17/2007
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 542
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Author of the critically acclaimed Orson Welles and the New York Times bestseller Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Leaming has also written for Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine.

Table of Contents


The Twenty-Five-Year Conversation     9
The Aristocratic Cousinhood     39
Sunset Glow before the Storm     63
The Form Most Pleasing to His Audience     95
Billy Hartington Wants to Know     122
Straw in the Wind     138
What about You?     154
By Watching England We Will Have Much to Learn     169
A Divided Nature     195
To Find a Beginning     221
On the Churchill Ticket     235
What the Man Would Like to Be     258
The Meaning of "Miscalculation"     289
The Edge of the Precipice     316
The Go-Between     334
A Lesson in Duty     359
In Reading the History of Past Wars and How They Began     383
Before It Is Too Late     413
Epilogue     439
Acknowledgments     443
Source Notes     445
Index     493
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