- Shopping Bag ( 0 items )
From the Publisher
"JFK's inaugural has gotten the book it deserves . . . Anyone who wants to understand why this president changed all of our lives need only open these pages to see him during his finest, most captivating and memorable moments." -Strobe Talbott
"Clarke's meticulous investigation of Kennedy's inaugural address . . . stirs us again with the eloquence of Kennedy's oratory, and deepens our understanding of its place in history."
-Sally Bedell Smith, author of Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
“Thurston Clarke has taken a brief, beautiful speech and recreated an extraordinary moment in time. He understands the power of words, the way they can animate an age and move the world.”—Evan Thomas, co-author of The Wise Men, author of John Paul Jones
Overview
A close-up on one of American history's most magical events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency and stood to speak those words, America was divided, its citizens torn by fears of war. Kennedy's speech-called the finest since Lincoln at Gettysburg and the most memorable of any twentieth-century...