JFK

by Fredrik Logevall

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  ———. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

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  ———. The Fift
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  ———. The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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  ———. The Uprooted. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

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