JFK Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

Beckoned by [a] gap in our historical knowledge, Fredrik Logevall has spent seven years searching for the 'real' JFK. The result of this ... effort is a ... two-volume biography that, for the first time, ... contextualizes Kennedy amidst the roiling American century. Beginning with the three generations of Kennedy men and women who transformed the clan from working-class Irish immigrants to members of Boston's political elite, volume 1 spans the first thirty-nine years of JFK's life, from sickly second son to restless Harvard undergraduate and World War II hero, through his ascendance on Capitol Hill and, finally, his decision to run for president