The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231107990)

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

Author: John Hellmann
ISBN-10: 0231107994
ISBN-13: 9780231107990
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/19/1999
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.04w x 0.50d