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The Kennedy Obsession

The Kennedy Obsession

The Kennedy Obsession
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The Kennedy Obsession Hardback - 1997

by Hellmann, John

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Author John Hellmann takes an original approach to understanding JFK's star power, tracing a carefully designed epic of survival and conquest from its origins in Kennedy's childhood. He presents a fascinating exploration of JFK's self-creation as the ideal American hero, embodying a legend that both mirrored and shaped the collective passage of Americans through this tumultuous century. 18 photos.

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  • Title The Kennedy Obsession
  • Author Hellmann, John
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, NY
  • Publication date 1997-09-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0231107986
  • ISBN 9780231107983 / 0231107986
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.24 x 0.79 in (23.60 x 15.85 x 2.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Kennedy, John F, Popular culture - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96-38203
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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.

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  • New York Times, 01/04/1998, Page 17
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/29/1997, Page 77

About the author

John Hellmann is professor of English at the Ohio State University at Lima and the author of American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam and Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction.

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