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BY FREDRIK LOGEVALL
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
A People and a Nation: A History of the United States (with Jane Kamensky et al.)
America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (with Campbell Craig)
The Origins of the Vietnam War
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FREDRIK LOGEVALL is Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and professor of history at Harvard University. A specialist on U.S. foreign relations history and modern international history, he is the author or editor of nine books, most recently Embers of War, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize.
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