01492nam a2200289Ia 4500 325995 OCoLC 20180830020358.0 960809s1997 nyua b 001 0deng 96038203 0231107986 (acid-free paper) 9780231107983 (acid-free paper) PUCPR cicg E 842 .1 .H44 1997 973.922/092 21 Hellmann, John 109615 Local The Kennedy obsession the American myth of JFK John Hellmann. New York Columbia University Press c1997. xvi, 206 p. ill. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index. A bedside visit -- How Kennedy awoke: Jack's reading and Why England slept -- John Hersey's "Survival": a literary experiment and its political adaptation -- The old man and the boy: Papa Hemingway and Profiles in courage -- The Hollywood screen and Kennedy's televised showdown with Truman -- The erotics of a presidency -- An assassination and its fictions. The author explores the mythology that grew up around John F. Kennedy who "was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideals."--Jacket. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 (John Fitzgerald) Local 7049 Popular culture United States History 20th century. 152605 Local Mythevorming. 256895 Local 243356 243356 0 0 lc 0 E_842_000000000000000__1__H44_1997 0 cil 167741 7 7 4 2016-05-27 Marcial Pons 34.49 522307 0 E 842 .1 .H44 1997 70000000605035 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:325995 6