The Kennedy Imprisonment
A Meditation on Power
With a new preface: An irreverent [and] entertaining portrait of JFK, the Camelot mystique, and the politics of charisma (The Christian Science Monitor). Described by the New York Times as a sort of intellectual outlaw, Garry Wills takes on the romantic myths surrounding the Kennedy clan in this thought-provoking examination of electoral politics and the power of image in America. Wills argues that the much-admired dynasty, beginning with patriarch Joe Kennedy, created a corrupt climate where appearances were more important than reality, truth was discarded when it wasn't convenient, and an assortment of devoted loyalists sacrificed integrit…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5040-4539-1
- EAN: 9781504045391
- Produktnummer: 31906883
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'270 KB
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Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of more than forty books, including New York Times bestsellers Reagan's America (1987), Lincoln at Gettysburg (1992), Papal Sin (2000), What Jesus Meant (2006), and Why Priests? (2013). A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Wills is professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University. He is a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the National Humanities Medal in 1998. Wills lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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