The Kennedy Obsession
, by Hellmann, JohnNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780231107990 | 0231107994
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/1/1999
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.