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An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of Poverty
The last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s life was not the battle for reelection he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. To Move the World recalls the extraordinary days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled the power of oratory and his remarkable political skills to establish more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union and a dramatic slowdown in the proliferation of nuclear arms.
Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, led their nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two superpowers came eyeball to eyeball at the nuclear abyss. This near-death experience shook both leaders deeply. Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how Kennedy emerged from the Missile crisis with the determination and prodigious skills to forge a new and less threatening direction for the world. Together, he and Khrushchev would pull the world away from the nuclear precipice, charting a path for future peacemakers to follow.
During his final year in office, Kennedy gave a series of speeches in which he pushed back against the momentum of the Cold War to persuade the world that peace with the Soviets was possible. The oratorical high point came on June 10, 1963, when Kennedy delivered the most important foreign policy speech of the modern presidency. He argued against the prevailing pessimism that viewed humanity as doomed by forces beyond its control. Mankind, argued Kennedy, could bring a new peace into reality through a bold vision combined with concrete and practical measures.
Achieving the first of those measures in the summer of 1963, the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, required more than just speechmaking, however. Kennedy had to use his great gifts of persuasion on multiple fronts—with fractious allies, hawkish Republican congressmen, dubious members of his own administration, and the American and world public—to persuade a skeptical world that cooperation between the superpowers was realistic and necessary. Sachs shows how Kennedy campaigned for his vision and opened the eyes of the American people and the world to the possibilities of peace.
Featuring the full text of JFK’s speeches from this period, as well as striking photographs, To Move the World gives us a startlingly fresh perspective on Kennedy’s presidency and a model for strong leadership and problem solving in our time.
Praise for To Move the World
“Rife with lessons for the current administration . . . We cannot know how many more steps might have been taken under Kennedy’s leadership, but To Move the World urges us to continue on the journey.”—Chicago Tribune
“The messages in these four speeches seem all too pertinent today.”—Publishers Weekly
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #1243183 in Books
- Published on: 2014-09-02
- Released on: 2014-09-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .56" w x 5.18" l, .47 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
From Publishers Weekly
UN special advisor Sachs (Price of Civilization) revisits the Cold War challenges facing the Kennedy administration during the Strangelove-ian era between October 1962 and September 1963. In this careful study, Sachs zeroes in on four key speeches Kennedy delivered in the months prior to his assassination in November 1963. Specifically, the book focuses on the American University commencement address known as the Peace Speech, also the theme of the author's Reith Lecture for the BBC six years ago. JFK, together with gifted speechwriter Ted Sorensen—his "intellectual alter ego"—set out a strategy for nations to live in "mutual tolerance", with ramifications that extend into the 21st century. Influenced by the writings of Winston Churchill and Pope John XXIII, the two collaborated to send a message of hope to the Class of 1963. Two weeks later Kennedy flew to Ireland where he delivered this message to members of the Irish Parliament. By July he announced a partial test ban treaty to the nation, and brought this news to the UN General Assembly. While sound bites of the Kennedy-Sorensen collaboration echo in modern classrooms—"Ask not what your country can do for you"—the messages in these four speeches seem all too pertinent today. (June)
Review
“This book is more than merely an exegesis of the major speeches of the last year of the Kennedy presidency. Rather, it presents Kennedy’s approach to achieving peace as a model for leaders of today. . . . The book is rife with lessons for the current administration, given its virtual deadlock with Congress on issues including, but not limited to, gun legislation, the United Nations Treaty on Disabilities, [and] immigration reform. . . . We cannot know how many more steps might have been taken under Kennedy’s leadership, but To Move the World urges us to continue on the journey.”—Chicago Tribune
“In this careful study, Sachs zeroes in on four key speeches Kennedy delivered in the months prior to his assassination. . . . JFK, together with gifted speechwriter Ted Sorensen—his ‘intellectual alter ego’—set out a strategy for nations to live in ‘mutual tolerance,’ with ramifications that extend into the twenty-first century. . . . While sound bites of the Kennedy-Sorensen collaboration echo in modern classrooms—‘Ask not what your country can do for you’—the messages in these four speeches seem all too pertinent today.”—Publishers Weekly
“After years trying to work out how underperforming economies can reach their full potential, [Jeffrey D. Sachs] has taken time out to offer an act of homage to his childhood hero—John F. Kennedy. And he has singled out one of JFK’s speeches for particular praise. . . . The true masterpiece, he believes, was a speech delivered to the American University in Washington DC in June 1963 and generally referred to as the Peace Speech. Sachs has come up with an argument making the case that the Peace Speech deserves wider recognition. . . . Why then does Sachs see the Peace Speech as so important? As he convincingly argues, it is all about context. Before the speech, he says, both sides had unrelentingly used Cold War rhetoric. In the last year of his life, emboldened by his success in defusing the Cuban missile crisis, JFK handled issues of international security with a new confidence and in a new way. . . . Sachs makes his case.”—The Spectator
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than one hundred countries. He is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, which are designed to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger, a position he also held under former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan. Sachs directs the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network on behalf of the secretary-general. He has received many honors around the world, including the Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice, India’s Padma Bhushan award, Poland’s Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit, and many honorary degrees. He has twice been named among the hundred most influential leaders in the world by Time magazine.
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
"We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal."
By Ash Jogalekar
Because of the relatively short duration of his Presidency, historians sometimes find themselves divided on John F. Kennedy's legacy. JFK usually features high on both popular and critical polls, but some are hard-pressed to compare his policy achievements with those of say, FDR or Ronald Reagan who enjoyed eight-year or longer terms. Yet, as noted economist Jeffrey Sachs shows us in this sensitive and focused analysis of JFK's dedication to peacemaking, during his short tenure Kennedy created a solid blueprint for peace and stability between nations that set the stage not only for the Cold War but for the age beyond it. The generality of his vision of peace have made his words immortal.
In promoting this vision Kennedy demonstrated both wisdom beyond his young years and courage. Most of Sachs's book is a detailed and thoughtful analysis of his most important speeches, prefaced by other relevant speeches by leaders like Eisenhower and Churchill. These speeches were inspired by close calls like the Cuban Missile Crisis which convinced Kennedy of the futility of nuclear war. The book describes how JFK carefully studied his predecessors' words - including Eisenhower's iconic speech warning of the dangers of defense spending and the military-industrial complex - and built upon them to erect his own lasting tribute to peace between nations. One thing that Sachs describes well is JFK's courage in standing up to the hardliners in the military and the Senate; this was the height of the Cold War, after all, and it took a lot of political will and just plain old guts to loudly proclaim a desire for peace with the Soviet Union. Yet, in speech after speech, JFK persevered with his vision of a safe world using words that combined pragmatism with idealism. It was this astute combination that allowed him for instance to get the key Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed and ratified. To do this JFK used his masterful powers of persuasion and attention to detail to secure the confidence of the skeptical Joint Chiefs of Staff, hardliner Republicans and Southern Democrats. Another hero in this book is Nikita Khrushchev who had a much more difficult job appeasing the hardliners in his own party, yet who often appreciated and reflected Kennedy's sentiments about compromise and stability.
Sachs points out many of JFK's trademark devices in getting his message across. One was 'antimetabole', a figure of speech which consists of transposing the words in a sentence (the classic example being "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"). Another tactic was in communicating what a treaty or particular political act would not do; this would then highlight the value of what it would do. This kind of comparison was especially fruitful in driving home important truths about peace with the Soviets and civil rights. Sadly JFK did not live long enough to pass meaningful civil rights legislation, but it was the foundation that he built which allowed his successor to ram it through with all his might.
The rest of the book explores the ramifications of JFK's vision. In one sense all major arms reduction treaties orchestrated by presidents from Johnson to Obama flow from Kennedy's words. It's been a mixed bag; on one hand his fears of there being ten or twenty nuclear states have not come true and there have been significant reductions in the number of weapons. But on the other hand there have been proxy wars and rogue states and plenty of opportunities for miscalculations, misunderstandings and mistrust which may lead to accidental conflict. We are all still struggling to realize Kennedy's hope of laying the bricks of peace day by day since the idea of striving to bring about common security goes beyond nuclear weapons.
The centerpiece of this book is surely an analysis of Kennedy's "Peace Speech" at American University which was delivered almost exactly sixty years to the day, on June 10, 1963. The speech contains not only some of the most eloquent words ever spoken by a President but also the most practical ones. In it JFK emphasizes the importance of acting even when action will achieve less than perfect results. He talks about peace not being some grand endpoint or abstract goal in the future but the stuff of everyday affairs, implemented each day, month and year like bricks contributing to a grand edifice. But most importantly he lays out an immortal reason for wanting to achieve peace; peace is desirable not just because it will reduce the immediate danger of war, but because failure to achieve it will affect not just us but our future generations. In one fell swoop he gave us a reason why we and our adversaries must necessarily have a common goal; because "in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal."
Those words bring a lump to my throat. Let us hope they do the same for all future leaders and citizens of this small planet.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
By Tony DiBiasio
To appreciate the power of this book, one has to understand the world from the perspective of the Cold War and early 1960's America. The growth of JFK as a statesman and a pragmatist is covered effectively by Jeffrey Sachs. At the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis an unexpected alliance for world peace was formed by JFK, Khrushchev, and Pope John XXIII . Despite strong opposition from hawks in the US and the USSR, these three men sought to bring "not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time." As Kennedy stated in his American University speech in June of 1963. Ironically, this speech was given just a week after the death of Pope John XXIII, and more ominously, within the next 16 months, Kennedy would be murdered, and Khrushchev would be forced from office. No world leader since JFK has sought "to move the world" in pursuit of peace. His death in Dallas continues to reverberate through time.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Sachs shows the possibilites inherent in JFK's vision and values, and how they can rescue us again.
By L. Nakrin
By illuminating President Kennedy's vision for peace, Professor Sachs has emphasized what a dark day November 22, 1963 really was. On that day the values of respect for reason and respect for the aspirations of all the people who inhabit the planet became subordinate to the values of domination and greed. If humankind ceases to exist in a meaningful way, JFK's assassination may have been the key milestone on that tragic path. In October of 1962, JFK's vision saved humankind from extinction. Hopefully, Professor Sachs' reinvigoration of JFK's vision and values can rescue us from the colossal threats we currently face, and restore our faith in our ability to move the world in a better direction.
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