Author

Publication

1997 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

51,500 words, Guess

Page Count

206 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing2915409

Classifications

  • DDC973.922/092
  • LCCE842.1 .H44 1997

Description

Not the history of a man's life but the biography of his idea, The Kennedy Obsession traces the creation of Kennedy's image as an inspired - and inspiring - fiction. The Kennedy Obsession reveals the painstaking transformation of private life into public persona, of a man into perhaps the major American myth of our time. The product of a distinctly American culture and the producer of an idealized vision for the future, Kennedy led the way into a new frontier, embodying a legend that both mirrored and shaped the collective passage of Americans through this tumultuous century.

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Other Editions

  • The Kennedy obsession: the American myth of JFKColumbia University Press1997-01-01

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