JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956 by Fredrik Logevall. Random House, 2020. Hardcover, 792 pages, $40. Reviewed by Jason K. Duncan Last year, 2020, marked the sixtieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as president in 1960. Given the heated...
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye. Random House, 2016. Hardcover, 580 pages, $32.The year 1968 is sometimes invoked in comparison to our current situation. It can serve both as a warning of what serious civil strife looks like in the United...
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith. Random House, 2014. Hardcover, 842 pages, $38.Looking back during his final years, Nelson Rockefeller declared his life a failure in that he had not become president of the United States. He had...
A Brief History of the Cold War by Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding. The Heritage Foundation, 2014. Paperback, 108 pages, $7. For a conflict that supposedly ended a quarter of a century ago, the Cold War certainly made its share of news in 2014. Important...
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