TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hellmann,John
TI  - The Kennedy obsession: the American myth of JFK
SN  - 0231107986 (acid-free paper)
AV  - E 842 .1 .H44 1997
U1  - 973.922/092 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Local
KW  - Mythevorming
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -