Lawrence J. Haas

Kennedys in the World (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brothers developed a deep understanding of the different peoples, cultures, and ideologies around the world; a keen appreciation for the challenges that such differences created for the United States; and a strong desire to reshape America's response to them. From their childhoods in the first half of the twentieth century, the brothers were prodded by their ruthless, demanding, win-at-all-costs father, Joe Kennedy, and their cold and distant mother, Rose, to learn and care about the world-and told they could shape America's role in it. For more than six decades after World War II, the brothers shaped broad issues of war and peace as well as the U.S. response to almost every major global challenge of their times: the Soviet Union and China, the Cold War and Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Chile, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Korea and Vietnam, South Africa and Northern Ireland, and Iraq (twice). In their time, America was what it remains today-the world's greatest power, with roles and responsibilities that stretch across the planet. Consequently, as the brothers remade America's empire, they invariably changed the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640124479
• Artikelnr.: 72310565

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