Mass-market edition of the first authoritative single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades. Drawing upon first-hand sources and never-before-opened archives, prize-winning historian Robert Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing the way we think about his life, his presidency and his legacy. Dallek also discloses that, while labouring to present an image of robust good health, Kennedy was secretly in and out of hospitals throughout his life, soill that he was administered last rites on several occasions. He never shies away from Kennedy's weaknesses, but also brilliantly explores his strengths. The result is a full portrait of a bold, brave and truly human John F. Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy : An Unfinished Life 1917-1963

Robert Dallek

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

In this epic and revelatory joint biography, one of America's most distinguished historians probes the lives and times of two unlikely leaders whose partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified documents and tapes, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for foreign policy achievements. He also brilliantly analyzes their dealings with power brokers at home and abroad, while recognizing how both men were continually plotting to distract the American public's attention from the growing scandal of Watergate. Authoritative, illuminating and deeply engrossing, Nixon and Kissinger provides a startling new portrait and a new understanding of the immense power and sway these two men held in affecting world history.

History

Americas

Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson, the 'human dynamo', from the Texas hill country to the White House. In these pages, Johson emerges as a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a man who was brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate, overbearing, driven. Gracefully written and delicately balanced, this singular biography reveals both the greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant characters ever to step onto the presidential stage.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President

Leaders & Notable People

John F. Kennedy

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

Dallek has added an Afterword to his classic, Bancroft Prize-winning study of Franklin Roosevelt's diplomacy. He effectively answers recent critics who have attacked Roosevelt for producing Pearl Harbor, for giving away Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta, and for abandoning European Jews during the Holocaust.

Oxford University Press

Lyndon Johnson: A Short Life

An exploration of American foreign policy reveals an alarming and continuing pattern of basing that policy on domestic concerns, struggles, and dilemmas

The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

To Lead a Nation: The Presidency in the Twentieth Century

Barnes_and_Nobles

The Great Republic : A History of the American People (Volume Two)

Gordon S. Wood

David Herbert Donald

David B. Davis

John Lovell Thomas

D.C. Heath & Co.

Bernard Bailyn, Robert Dallek, David Brion Davis, David Herbert Donald, John L. Thomas, Gordon S. Wood

The Great Republic: A History of the American People: 1

Bernard Bailyn

David Brion Davis

John L. Thomas

Wadsworth Publishing

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