无与伦比的优雅：肯尼迪总统[有声读物]

马克·K·厄普德格罗夫（作者、叙述者）、罗宾·迈尔斯（叙述者），《无与伦比的优雅：肯尼迪总统任期》
著名作家、历史学家马克·K·厄普德格罗夫是LBJ基金会的负责人，也是ABC新闻的总统历史学家。他对约翰·F·肯尼迪短暂但具有变革性的白宫任期进行了富有启发性的描述。
“非常吸引人……一本重要的书。”（多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温）
“优雅、简洁，[而且]博学。”（迈克尔·贝施洛斯）
“将肯尼迪从卡梅洛特神话中解救出来。”（理查德·诺顿·史密斯）
在他去世近60年后，肯尼迪仍然在美国人的想象中占据着巨大的地位。虽然婴儿潮一代还记得他作为总统的耀眼风采，但千禧一代更可能从欧米茄手表或雷朋太阳镜的广告中认识他。然而，他执政的岁月不仅仅是他的风格和优雅。他的总统任期讲述了一位羽翼未丰的领导人被迫面对前所未有的挑战，克服失误，带领他的国家进入一个充满希望的新时代的故事。
肯尼迪上任时经验不足，但很有吸引力，他的名声更多地是被迷恋的公众给予的，而不是通过成就获得的。在这篇扣人心弦的新评估中，厄普德格罗夫揭示了肯尼迪的头几个月是如何受到挫折的：拙劣的猪湾入侵、与苏联总理的灾难性峰会，以及对民权运动管理不善。但这位年轻的总统很快就证明，在魅力背后是一位具有非凡毅力和远见的领导人。
谦逊的肯尼迪承认了自己的错误，而且，对我们这个时代来说，重要的是，他从自己的失败中吸取了重要的教训，他用这些教训来纠正错误，不屈不挠地向前迈进。事实上，肯尼迪在担任总统期间不断成长，在悲剧结束前冷静地面对源源不断的危机时，释放出了更大的可能性。
无以伦比的优雅令人信服地重新审视了一位有缺陷但有天赋的领导人在白宫度过的戏剧性、重要的岁月，而这往往是由他过早去世后的卡梅洛特神话所定义的。
Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency [Audiobook]
Mark K. Updegrove (Author, Narrator), Robin Miles (Narrator), “Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency”
Acclaimed author and historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation and presidential historian for ABC News, offers an illuminating account of John F. Kennedy’s brief but transformative tenure in the White House.
“Tremendously absorbing and inviting…. An important book.” (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
“Elegant, concise,[and] knowing.” (Michael Beschloss)
“Rescues JFK from Camelot mythology.” (Richard Norton Smith)
Nearly 60 years after his death, JFK still holds an outsize place in the American imagination. While Baby Boomers remember his dazzling presence as president, millennials more likely know him from advertisements for Omega watches or Ray Ban sunglasses. Yet his years in office were marked by more than his style and elegance. His presidency is a story of a fledgling leader forced to meet unprecedented challenges, and to rise above missteps to lead his nation into a new and hopeful era.
Kennedy entered office inexperienced but alluring, his reputation more given by an enamored public than earned through achievement. In this gripping new assessment of his time in the Oval Office, Updegrove reveals how JFK’s first months were marred by setbacks: the botched Bay of Pigs invasions, a disastrous summit with the Soviet premier, and a mismanaged approach to the Civil Rights movement. But the young president soon proved that behind the glamour was a leader of uncommon fortitude and vision.
A humbled Kennedy conceded his mistakes, and, importantly for our times, drew important lessons from his failures that he used to right wrongs and move forward undaunted. Indeed, Kennedy grew as president, radiating greater possibility as he coolly faced a steady stream of crises before his tragic end.
Incomparable Grace compellingly reexamines the dramatic, consequential White House years of a flawed but gifted leader too often defined by the Camelot myth that came after his untimely death.

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