<p><b>''The most compelling biography I have read in years . . . There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research . . . makes the story seem a cliffhanger even though we know what is coming'' </b>Max Hastings, <i>Sunday Times<br></i><br><b>''In his utterly absorbingJFK, Fred Logevall reconstructs not only a great man, but also his entire age'' </b>Brendan Simms, author of <i>Hitler: A Global Biography</i><br><br><b>The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president.</b><br>________________<br><br>By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston''s wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age, and his meteori