Fredrik Logevall.
FREDRIK LOGEVALL
JFK: VOLUME 1: JOHN F KENNEDY: 1917:1956 (2020)
John F.Kennedy served as the 35th President of the USA from 1961 to his assassination in 1963. He is, at 44, the youngest person to have been elected as President. He was tragically assassinated in 1963.
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Fredrik Logevall was born in Sweden in 1963. As a teenager, he emigrated with his family to Canada. There he took his undergraduate degree at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, moving on to take an MA in history at the University of Oregon and a PhD in US diplomacy at Yale University. After spells teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Cornell University, to in 2015 took up a post as Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University.
Logevall won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam.
