With the Bark Off: Conversations on the American Presidency

“Politics requires treating your opponents as adversaries, not enemies,” A Conversation with Fredrik Logevall on John F. Kennedy

Episode Summary

Harvard University Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Fredrik Logevall discusses the pre-presidential years of John F. Kennedy: his relationship with his father, the development of his character, his military experience, education, and the start of a promising political career.

Episode Notes

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and Professor of History at Harvard University. Dr. Logevall is the author or editor of ten books including Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History. Most recently, he's published JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, the first volume of what will be a monumental two-part biography of John F. Kennedy.