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America's Cold War - The Politics of Insecurity, Second Edition by Campbell Craig; Fredrik Logevall
Category: History
?A creative, carefully researched, and incisive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long struggle against the Soviet Union.??Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy?Craig and Logevall remind us that American foreign policy is decided as much by domestic pressures as external threats. America's Cold War is hist ...Show more
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall (Cornell University)
Category: History
Secondhand. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in sever ...Show more
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Category: History
This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? To answer that question Fredrik Logevall traces the forty-year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959. Using fresh archives in Washington, Hanoi, and Paris, Cornell University Pro ...Show more
JFK - Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
Category: Biography Memoir
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. "An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century."--Jill Lepor ...Show more
JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
Category: Politics
The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the ...Show more
JFK - Volume One by Fredrik Logevall
Category: Politics
The first of this two-part landmark biography of John F. Kennedy, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall, takes the reader from 1917, when Kennedy was born, to 1960, when he was elected President. It shows how a boy born on a middle-class street to Boston Irish-Catholics became t ...Show more
JFK Volume One 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
Category: History
'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book' Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth p ...Show more
Street Without Joy - The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Fall; Fredrik Logevall (Foreword by)
Category: Military | Series: Stackpole Military History Ser.
Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. In ...Show more
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