Book. Review: JFK Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956

JFK

Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956

by Fredrik Logevall

Random House Publishing Group — Random House

Random House

Biographies & Memoirs. |. History

Pub Date 08 Sep 2020

I am reviewing a copy of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956 through Random House Publishing Group and Netgalley:

John F Kennedy was born on May.29.1917 and was assassinated November 22.1963. He was born in the midst of the First World War, and came of age during the Second World War.

John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Kennedy knew political ambition from a young age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history. And while portrayals of his dazzling charisma, reports of his extramarital affairs, and disagreements over his political legacy have come and gone in the decades since his untimely death, these accounts all fail to capture the full person.