The Kennedy obsession : the American myth of JFK / John Hellmann.
The Kennedy obsession : the American myth of JFK / John Hellmann.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c1997.
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N973.922092/K35.7/7
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Prologue: A Bedside Visit -- Ch. 1. How Kennedy Awoke: Jack's Reading and Why England Slept -- Ch. 2. John Hersey's "Survival": A Literary Experiment and Its Political Adaptation -- Ch. 3. The Old Man and the Boy: Papa Hemingway and Profiles in Courage -- Ch. 4. The Hollywood Screen and Kennedy's Te...
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
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...
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The Kennedy obsession : the American myth of JFK / John Hellmann.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index.
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c1997.
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N973.922092/K35.7/7
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74VMQK78oxDA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQK78oxDA
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ISBN
0231107994 (pbk.)
9780231107983 (acid-free paper)
0231107986 (acid-free paper)
9780231107990 (pbk.)
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973.922092
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991000416809702626
