Dieser Autor hat sich auf das Schreiben über amerikanische Politik und Geschichte spezialisiert, mit Schwerpunkt auf Präsidentschaften und den Schlüsselfiguren, die das moderne Amerika geprägt haben. Sein Ansatz zeichnet sich durch gründliche Recherche und eine analytische Perspektive auf komplexe Beziehungen und Entscheidungen aus, die den Lauf der Geschichte beeinflussten. Durch seine Arbeit bietet er den Lesern tiefe Einblicke in Machtdynamiken und die Psychologie von Führungspersönlichkeiten. Sein Schreiben wird für seine sachliche Genauigkeit und seine Fähigkeit, lebendige Porträts historischer Persönlichkeiten zu zeichnen, geschätzt.
Die definitive Biografie des zugleich getriebenen und visionären Politikers John F. Kennedy. Die Gerüchte um seine Affären, seine Mafiakontakte und seine Krankheiten umranken die Legende. Robert Dallek läßt in seiner spannenden Erzählung den zugleich sportlichen und kranken, ehrgeizigen und sympathischen Menschen Kennedy sichtbar werden. Viele seiner politischen Entscheidungen, etwa in der Kubakrise, zu Vietnam, zur Berliner Mauer, erscheinen in neuem Licht. „Eines der wichtigsten Schlüsseldokumente zur historischen Auseinandersetzung mit Kennedy“ Süddeutsche Zeitung „Die mit Abstand beste Kennedy-Biografie“ Die Zeit
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
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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.
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls “Kennedy’s leading biographer,” delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors—their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles. In Camelot’s Court, Dallek analyzes the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy’s administration—including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam—were indelible. Kennedy purposefully put together a dynamic team of advisors noted for their brilliance and acumen, including Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, and trusted aides Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger. Yet the very traits these men shared also created sharp divisions. Far from being unified, this was an uneasy band of rivals whose ambitions and clashing beliefs ignited fiery internal debates. Robert Dallek illuminates a president deeply determined to surround himself with the best and the brightest, who often found himself disappointed with their recommendations. The result, Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House, is a striking portrait of a leader whose wise resistance to pressure and adherence to principle offers a cautionary tale for our own time.
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.
