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Veinticuatro años antes de convertirse en presidente de los Estados Unidos, John F. Kennedy emprendió una gran gira por Europa. Junto con su amigo y compañero de viaje, Lem Billings, fueron dejando registro de su estancia en el viejo continente, que entonces caía en una ola aterradora de regímenes totalitarios. Hasta ahora escondidos en la Biblioteca Presidencial de John F. Kennedy en Boston, estos diarios estudiantiles de 1937 conforman una imagen fiel del punto de vista de Kennedy durante un viaje que resultó clave para formular sus ideas posteriores sobre la democracia y liderar así la Guerra Fría. Y si bien expone algunas conclusiones y juicios erróneos sobre el panorama político de la época, también plantea reflexiones de gran actualidad sobre el populismo, la propaganda y sus potentes efectos en la sociedad. Con numerosas fotografías de archivo, una introducción del director de la RAE, Santiago Muñoz Machado, y un epílogo del profesor Oliver Lubrich, aquí se reproducen, en su totalidad, los escritos no adulterados del diario de JFK en su encuentro con una Europa atormentada por el nazismo.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), known as John F. Kennedy and later known by his initials ""JFK"", was a politician of the Democratic Party who served as the thirty-fifth president of the United States from 1961 to 1963. During his tenure, during the height of the Cold War, historic events occurred such as the Bah� a Cochinos invasion, the Cuban crisis, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the beginning of manned space travel, the escalation of the Vietnam War and the African American Civil Rights Movement. Kirk LeMoyne Billings (1916-1981), nicknamed ""Lem,"" was a high school friend of JFK and a close confidant throughout his life. As students, they undertook a long journey together during the summer of 1937 through France, Italy, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and England. Both kept diaries that are published in this volume for the first time. After finishing his studies at Princeton University and Harvard Business School, Lem Billings worked as an entrepreneur in the advertising sector. He helped Kennedy in his electoral campaigns and in different capacities during his presidency

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