Robert Dallek Knihy

Tato kniha je prvním věrohodným životopisem Johna F. Kennedyho, který byl za téměř čtyři desetiletí napsán. Uznávaný a vysoce oceňovaný historik Robert Dallek čerpal ze zdrojů disponujících informacemi „z první ruky“, z nedávno odhalených dokumentů i z dosud nikdy neodtajněných archivů, a prostřednictvím svého díla nám tak o JFK odhaluje více, než nám bylo kdy známo. Mění způsob našeho nazírání na Kennedyho život, na jeho působení v prezidentském úřadě i na jeho odkaz. Autor brilantně popisuje Kennedyho přednosti, ale nevyhýbá se ani líčení jeho slabých stránek. Výsledkem je komplexní portrét smělého, statečného, lidského a hrdinského muže Johna Fitzgeralda Kennedyho.

Updated edition of the authoritative single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy. Drawing upon first-hand sources and never-before-opened archives, prize-winning historian Robert Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing the way we think about his life, his presidency and his legacy.Dallek also discloses that, while labouring to present an image of robust good health, Kennedy was secretly in and out of hospitals throughout his life, soill that he was administered last rites on several occasions. He never shies away from Kennedy's weaknesses, but also brilliantly explores his strengths. The result is a full portrait of a bold, brave and truly human John F. Kennedy.

Meticulously researched and authoritative ... Roosevelt is with us again in Dallek's outstanding cradle-to-grave study Douglas Brinkley Washington Post číst celé

As the Obama Administration struggles to define its strategy for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Dallek's critical and compelling look at Truman, Churchill, Stalin, and other world leaders in the wake of World War II not only offers important historical perspective but provides timely insight on America's course into the future.

Mass-market edition of the first authoritative single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades. Drawing upon first-hand sources and never-before-opened archives, prize-winning historian Robert Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing the way we think about his life, his presidency and his legacy. Dallek also discloses that, while labouring to present an image of robust good health, Kennedy was secretly in and out of hospitals throughout his life, soill that he was administered last rites on several occasions. He never shies away from Kennedy's weaknesses, but also brilliantly explores his strengths. The result is a full portrait of a bold, brave and truly human John F. Kennedy.

Chronicles John F. Kennedy's childhood, wartime actions, political campaigns, presidency, marriage and personal life, and health, revealing insights into his life from new documents, archives, and firsthand sources.

Working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful figures in America in the second half of the twentieth century. While their personalities could hardly have seemed more different, both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often ruthless in pursuit of their goals. Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified archives, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship and brilliantly analyzes their shared roles in monumental historical events—including the nightmare of Vietnam, the unprecedented opening to China, détente with the Soviet Union, the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, the disastrous overthrow of Allende in Chile, and the scandal of Watergate.

"Few chief executives have had so lasting an impact as our thirty-third president. It was Truman who ushered America into the nuclear age, established the alliances and principles that would define the Cold War and the national security state, started the nation on the road to civil rights, and won the most dramatic election of the twentieth century - his 1948 "whistlestop campaign" against Thomas E. Dewey." "Robert Dallek shows how this unassuming yet supremely confident man rose to the occasion in the years following World War II. It was not an easy task: Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a "splendid misery," but it was through his achievements that the United States truly came of age."--BOOK JACKET.

This superb, one-volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson is by the bestselling author of "An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963."

The struggle to preserve the Republic has always been fraught with challenges. The emergence of conflicting political parties, opposed by the founders, and President John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts, which curtailed First Amendment rights, made Franklin's warning at the Constitutional Convention—"a republic, if you can keep it"—seem prophetic. In the twentieth century, America faced significant trials: economic depression, World War II, McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the Iraq War, all of which gave rise to demagogues, fueled by the expansion of mass media. This was not the leadership envisioned by the Founding Fathers. The resistance to demagoguery persisted through the anti-Communist fervor of the 1950s and the Vietnam War, but the latter set the stage for Richard Nixon's election in 1968 and the subsequent Watergate scandal, which tested democratic institutions. Nixon's resignation in 1974 prompted Gerald Ford to declare, "Our long national nightmare is over." Yet, the election of Donald Trump in 2016 posed a new threat. How did previous politics and administrations lead to this current assault on democracy? Robert Dallek examines a century of modern leadership, from Teddy Roosevelt to today, highlighting the personalities and voters behind each administration. His cautionary tale emphasizes that while change is constant in history, the direction of that change is ultimately in the h