Updegrove, Mark K

Updegrove will alleviate, although not quench, general readers’ continual thirst for biographies of JFK. Pair with the likes of Fredrik Logevall’s JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956.

Updegrove has not attempted a full-scale biography such as Robert Dallek's Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant or Robert Caro's unfinished multi-volume LBJ biography. General readers wanting an introductory overview filled with anecdotes and reminiscences will like this, as may some scholars, but the latter will chiefly want Robert Caro's next volume: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (May), covering LBJ from 1960 to 1964.