The Kennedy obsession
Subtitle: the American myth of JFK
By: John Hellmann.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: 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 American culture and the producer of an idealized vision for the future, Kennedy led the way into a new frontier, embodying a legend that both mirrored and shaped the collective passage of Americans through this tumultuous century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index.