John F. Kennedy (Routledge Historical Biographies), Ling 9780415528863 New..

John F. KennedyAuthor(s): Peter Ling\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415528863, 978-0415528863\nSynopsis\nA lively, concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history. Of all the US presidents of the post-Second World War period, John F. Kennedy is the most clearly idolized. There is a well-documented gulf between the publics largely positive appraisal of this glamorous historical figure and professional historians skeptical and mixed evaluation of a president who had only a foreshortened single term in which to make his mark. \n\nWhat made JFK the man he was? How does he fit into the politics of his time? What were his policy goals, how did they shift, and how far did he manage to advance them? What was the Kennedy style of governance? Why was he killed and how can we explain the unprecedented outpouring of grief that his death elicited? How has his memory evolved since 1.