The Kennedy Obsession [Anglais] [Broché]

The Kennedy Obsession does not break much new ground; only the perspective with which to view the phenomenon is new. We all love a good story; Hellmann believes Americans still love J.F.K. because he, along with his family and associates, created a great one. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .

Hellmann argues provocatively that this American heroic epic was not an incidental by-product of Kennedy´s eventful and dramatic life.

Hellmann understands that reading involves more than the consumption of ideas--it is a theater of the mind, in which the reader imaginatively tests a range of roles, voices, identities. Hellmann shows how Kennedy's own early reading (in combination with family lore) provided him with the language of myth, his sense of identity and role. He then analyzes the complex ways in which this private myth-making interacted with the process of social myth-making (in mass media and politics) to shape The Kennedy Obsession.'

Hellmann understands that reading involves more than the consumption of ideas--it is a theater of the mind, in which the reader imaginatively tests a range of roles, voices, identities. Hellmann shows how Kennedy´s own early reading (in combination with family lore) provided him with the language of myth, his sense of identity and role. He then analyzes the complex ways in which this private myth-making interacted with the process of social myth-making (in mass media and politics) to shape ‘The Kennedy Obsession.'

John F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. In 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.

Author John Hellmann takes an original approach to understanding JFK's star power, tracing a carefully designed epic of survival and conquest from its origins in Kennedy's childhood. He presents a fascinating exploration of JFK's self-creation as the ideal American hero, embodying a legend that both mirrored and shaped the collective passage of Americans through this tumultuous century. 18 photos . --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .

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.