LEADER 00000cam 2200361 a 4500 001 62895796 003 OCoLC 005 20081006111518.0 008 060109s2006 nyuaf b 001 0beng 010 2005036598 020 9780393329704 035 .b65634962 040 DLC|cDLC|dIG#|dBAKER|dBUR|dIXA|dVP@|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ|dBTCTA |dLVB|dOCLCG|dKEC|dOSU|dUtOrBLW 043 n-us--- 049 OSUU 050 00 E841|b.L345 2007 082 00 973.922/092|aB|222 100 1 Leaming, Barbara 245 10 Jack Kennedy :|bthe education of a statesman /|cBarbara Leaming 250 1st ed 260 New York :|bW.W. Norton,|cc2006 300 509 p., [32] p. of plates :|bill. ;|c25 cm 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-491) and index 505 0 The twenty-five year conversation -- The aristocratic cousinhood -- Sunset glow before the storm -- The form most pleasing to his audience -- Billy Hartington wants to know -- Straw in the wind -- What about you? -- By watching England we will have much to learn -- A divided nature -- To find a beginning -- On the Churchill ticket - - What the man would like to be -- The meaning of "miscalculation" -- The edge of the precipice -- The go- between -- A lesson in duty -- In reading the history of past wars and how they began -- Before it is too late 520 The story of the friendships and forces that shaped the Kennedy presidency. In the summer of 1938 a tall Harvard student arrived in London, where his father was the American ambassador and his sister had gained entrée to a group of young aristocrats. As Winston Churchill called on a reluctant Britain to resist Hitler before it was too late, Jack Kennedy formed bonds of friendship and family that would forever change his life and the course of American history. Drawing on many new primary sources, this book is the first to trace the arc of Kennedy's intellectual and political formation, and to detail the goals of his presidency as he saw them, giving an intimate picture of a leader torn between politics and principle, a president wrestling with private demons and unresolved conflicts dating back to the 1930s, when Churchill and Ambassador Joseph Kennedy were adversaries on the public stage.--From publisher description 600 10 Kennedy, John F.|q(John Fitzgerald),|d1917-1963 650 0 Presidents|zUnited States|vBiography 650 0 Presidents|zUnited States|xDecision making 651 0 United States|xPolitics and government|y1961-1963 651 0 United States|xForeign relations|y1961-1963
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