Title: The Kennedy Obsession
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Popular culture, History, Popular culture, united states, Kennedy, john f. (john fitzgerald), 1917-1963, Kennedy family
Places: United States
People: John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E842.1 .H44 1997