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JFK: COMING OF AGE
ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR •A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president.
“An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century.”—Jill Lepore, author ofThese Truths: A History of the United States
WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE• NAMED BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR BYThe Times(London)
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The Sunday Times(London),New Statesman,The Daily Telegraph, Kirkus Reviews
By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F.
Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston’s wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambiti