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9780231107990

The Kennedy Obsession

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231107990

  • ISBN10:

    0231107994

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-04-01
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

John F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. In The Kennedy Obsession,John Hellmann takes a thoroughly original approach to understanding Kennedy's star power and his carefully crafted public image. Tracing Kennedy's self-creation as diligent scholar, bashful hero, and sensitive rebel-cued by cultural figures such as Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, and Cary Grant-and the images of Kennedy in the aftermath of his assassination, Hellmann reveals the painstaking transformation of private life into public persona, of a man into perhaps the major American myth of our time.

Table of Contents

Prologue: A Bedside Visit
How Kennedy Awoke: Jack's Reading and Why England Slept
John Hersey's "Survival": A Literary Experiment and Its Political Adaptation
The Old Man and the Boy: Papa Hemingway and Profiles in Courage
The Hollywood Screen and Kennedy's Televised Showdown with Truman
The Erotics of a Presidency
An Assassination and Its Fictions
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