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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall (Cornell University)
Category: Military
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "The Washington Post - The Christian Science Monitor - The Globe and Mail" LONGLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew ...Show more
JFK - Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
Category: History
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: History
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: Biography
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: Biography
'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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