Incomparable grace : JFK in the presidency / Mark K. Updegrove.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Updegrove, Mark K., author.

Contributor:

• Rosengarten Family Fund.

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

Online:

The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page