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Incomparable grace : JFK in the presidency / Mark K. Updegrove.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Updegrove, Mark K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- United States--History--1953-1961.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- JFK in the presidency
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the presidency
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Dutton, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Acclaimed presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation, offers an illuminating account of John F. Kennedy's brief but transformative tenure in the White House"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. The Torch
- Transition
- "Let Us Begin"
- The Second Son
- Rising Star
- "The Center Of The Action"
- II. The Fire
- "How Could We Have Been So Stupid?"
- "You Will Never Make It Through Alabama"
- Showdown In Vienna
- Jackie
- The Wall
- III. The Brink
- The Brothers Kennedy
- Keeping The Peace
- "We Choose To Go To The Moon"
- "Going For Broke"
- Ole Miss
- "The Gravest Issues"
- "Burden Of Choice"
- The Knot
- "The Antithesis Of A Politician"
- "Grace Under Pressure"
- IV. The Peak
- Birmingham
- Lyndon
- "To Turn The World Away From War"
- September Song
- The March
- A Coup In Vietnam
- Dallas
- "Let Us Continue".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Updegrove, Mark K. Incomparable grace
- ISBN:
- 9781524745745
- 152474574X
- OCLC:
- 1256588312
- Publisher Number:
- 99990764995
- 40031092483
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