About the Author

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School and Professor of History at Harvard University. A specialist on US foreign relations history and modern international history, he was previously the Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University. Before that he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies. Logevall is the author or editor of ten books, including Embers of War, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize, as well as the 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Reviews

The most compelling biography I have read in years
*Sunday Times*

Excellent . . . shaping up to be the definitive account of JFK's life
*The Times, Book of the Week*

Magisterial . . . an essential read
*Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us*

He makes JFK as alive and compelling as if you were reading about him for the first time
*George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century*

JFK is biography at its very best
*The Spectator*