The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power

The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power

by Garry Wills
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power

The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power

by Garry Wills

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Overview

From one of America's foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a family that enjoyed public adulation but provided fluctuating leadership, that experienced both unparalleled fame and odd failures, and whose basic values ensnared its men in their own myths of success and masculinity. In the end, Wills reveals that the the Kennedys' crippling conception of power touched every part of their public and private lives, including their relationships with women and world leaders. Sometimes gossipy, sometimes philosophical, The Kennedy Imprisonment is a book that is as true, insightful, and relevant as ever.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780618134434
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/14/2002
Edition description: 1ST MARINE
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 287,231
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

About The Author
GARRY WILLS, a distinguished historian and critic, is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, and the best-selling Why I Am a Catholic. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he has won many awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is a history professor emeritus at Northwestern University.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1934

Place of Birth:

Atlanta, GA

Education:

St. Louis University, B.A., 1957; Xavier University, M.A., 1958; Yale University, Ph.D., 1961

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Mariner Editionxi
Prologue: Brothers3
Part 1Sex
1.The Father15
2.The President27
3.Sisters and Wives39
4.The Prisoner of Sex51
Part 2Family
5.Semi-Irish61
6.Semi-English72
7.Honorary Kennedys84
8.Ghosts99
9.The Prisoner of Family111
Part 3Image
10.Creating the Kennedys127
11.Style140
12.The Prisoner of Image151
Part 4Charisma
13.Counterinsurgency at Home163
14.Enjoy! Enjoy!175
15.Delegitimation188
16.Veralltaglichung199
17.The Prisoner of Charisma207
Part 5Power
18.Bulldog! Bulldog!219
19.The Midas Touch232
20."Learning"242
21."Triumph"255
22."Restraint"264
23.Charismatic Nation275
24.The Prisoner of Power286
Epilogue: Brotherhood297
Index305
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