The Kennedy Obsession - The American Myth of JFK (Paper)

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-231-10799-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hellmann, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: A Bedside VisitOne: How Kennedy Awoke: Jack's Reading and Why England SleptTwo: John Hersey's "Survival": A Literary Experiment and Its Political AdaptationThree: The Old Man and the Boy: Papa Hemingway and Profiles in CourageFour: The Hollywood Screen and Kennedy's Televised Showdown with TrumanFive: The Erotics of a PresidencySix: An Assassination and Its Fictions

Über Autor(innen)

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.