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Fredrik Logevall

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Newspaper Article - The Boston Globe

Kingston Library to Host Program on New JFK Biography

    Author:
  • Robert Knox
| Apr. 16, 2021

On April 22, 2021, the Kingston Public Library will host a presentation by Pulitzer Prize winning author Fredrik Logevall on his biography, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, the first volume of a projected two-volume biography that includes new archival material from the Kennedy Presidential Library. The biography is a fresh examination of America's youngest and first Catholic president.

President Barack Obama listens as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, April 4, 2016.

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Magazine Article - The National Interest

Principled Pragmatism: Fredrik Logevall on Obama's Legacy

    Author:
  • Paul Richard Huard
| May 23, 2016

"I think that he has on some level grasped the difficulties I mentioned a moment ago: the difficulties of counterinsurgency and nation building, the limits of American power. I think he has acted on the basis of those convictions. I think he has a fundamental faith in diplomacy, which I think is right. He understands that diplomacy and negotiations can be a very powerful tool in the tool kit of American strategists, and I think that he is exactly right. So I am appreciative of the fact and supportive of the fact that he has pursued negotiations with Iran most notably, also with Cuba."