{"product_id":"john-f-kennedy-9780805083491","title":"John F. Kennedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as Alan Brinkley shows in this incisive and lively assessment, the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend. His brief 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 Crisis and his belated but powerful stand against segregation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKennedy seemed to live on a knife's edge, moving from one crisis to another--Cuba, Laos, Berlin, Vietnam, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. His controversial public life mirrored his hidden private life. He took risks that would seem reckless and even foolhardy when they emerged from secrecy years later. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKennedy's life, and his violent and sudden death, reshaped our view of the presidency. Brinkley gives us a full picture of the man, his times, and his enduring legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Brinkley (1949-2019)\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eVoices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University and also taught at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. He lived in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503874740498,"sku":"9780805083491","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_798d864d-0547-499b-aeb5-036ae4b99502.jpg?v=1730801804","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/john-f-kennedy-9780805083491","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}