Directed by The Great Courses

Michael Shelden

Your expert is Michael Shelden, a Professor of English at Indiana State University. He has won the university's top award for excellence in scholarship, the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research/Creativity Award, three times. He is the author of six biographies and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

JFK Reconsidered

Episode 2

1956: Vice President Kennedy?

Episode 3

JFK's Pivotal Choices to Win the Presidency

Episode 4

Unearthing JFK's Public and Private Lives

Episode 5

Kennedy's New Approach to the Presidency

Episode 6

1961: The Education of a President

Episode 7

Promising the Moon

Episode 8

Before and during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Episode 9

Kennedy's New America

Episode 10

Kennedy's Strategy in Vietnam

Episode 11

The Fateful Visit to Texas

Episode 12

The Mythos of Camelot