John F. Kennedy: His Life and LegacyHarper Collins, 2005 - 160 Seiten President John F. Kennedy lived an extraordinary life. He was awarded a Purple Heart for bravery in World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles In Courage. He was the youngest man ever elected president and the first president born in the twentieth century.His commitment to civil rights and his efforts to limit the use of nuclear weapons changed American life. President John F. Kennedy’s life and, sadly, his early death, are part of history. A voracious reader of biographies, President Kennedy has fittingly been the subject of many volumes himself. When asked why he enjoyed reading biographies, President Kennedy replied, "Because they answer the question 'What's he like?'" In attempting to answer that question, author Shelley Sommer presents John F. Kennedy in his many roles -- as a boy, a young man, a war hero, a politician, a husband, a father, and finally a president. This look at John F. Kennedy, illustrated with photos from the Kennedy Family Collection and the Kennedy Library, gives young readers a look at a dynamic man whose personality and politics helped to shape the twentieth century and continue to influence American life today. |
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... United States . The sun shone so brightly on the day's ceremony that it was hard for one of the first speakers , the eighty - six - year - old poet Robert Frost , to read the poem he had written especially for this historic occasion ...
... United States Capitol . Another prominent American invited to the inaugural was E. B. White , the author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little . White was unable to attend , but after watching the ceremony on television , he wrote the ...
... United States , but he still decided not to wear an overcoat . Kennedy's mother later referred to his election as an " almost impossible dream . " He was , after all , a man who had been close to death three times before he was forty ...
... United States a nation of spectators , " he said . " We want a nation of participants in the vigorous life . " President Kennedy was the embodiment of his own words , in the way he approached the presidency and his life . The early ...
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CHAPTER FOUR | 19 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 25 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 43 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 49 |
CHAPTER NINE | 57 |
CHAPTER | 63 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 71 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 85 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 101 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 115 |
IN THE WORDS OF JOHN F KENNEDY | 129 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 144 |