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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: THE CHALLENGES OF WRITING BIOGRAPHIES (ON WRITING)
Description: I'm using Kennedy's life to tell the story of America's rise, first to great power status and then superpower status.
A BETTER PEACE welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning author Fredrik Logevall to discuss his newest project, a two-volume biography of John F. Kennedy. Logevall joins Michael Neiberg in the studio as they discuss the complexity of writing a biography. They relate thoughts behind research efforts, organization and prioritization of themes and interests and just how much information can be covered in a mere 500,000 words.
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Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Be...