Lawrence J Haas

The Kennedys in the World

How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America's federation for more than six decades after World War II.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9781640123847
• ISBN-10: 1640123849
• Artikelnr.: 60401914

Autorenporträt

Lawrence J. Haas, an award-winning journalist and former senior White House official, is senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, a columnist on foreign affairs, and a TV and radio commentator. He is the author of five other books, including Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World (Potomac Books, 2016), which the Wall Street Journal named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2016.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: September 1939
Part 1
1. “Like Carbonated Water”
2. “My Experience Was the War”
3. “He Was Like a Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Priest”
4. “The Knife Itself Is Still in His Fist”
5. “The Hour Is Late”
6. “If It Wasn’t for the Russians”
7. “Whether a Free Society Can Compete”
8. “R. Kennedy Was Very Upset”
9. “George, You’re Just Crazier Than Hell!”
Part 2
10. “I Wouldn’t Be My Grandfather’s Grandson”
11. “Are These People for Real?”
12. “Not by Escalation, but by De-escalation”
13. “We Live in the Same World with China”
14. “Not Very Different Than What Hitler Did to the Jews”
Part 3
15. “Dear God, Help Us, This War Must End”
16. “Help Us, Kennedy!”
17. “Nothing More nor Less Than Voodoo Arms Control”
18. “This Year in Be’er Sheva”
19. “The Echoes of My Brother Bob’s Trip”
20. “He’s Not Going to Hug Gerry Adams”
21. “Can’t Be a Bully in the World Schoolyard”
Epilogue: What If?
Notes
Bibliography
Index