The Kennedy imprisonment : a meditation on power
Title:
The Kennedy imprisonment : a meditation on power
Author:
Wills, Garry, 1934- author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, [1982]
©1981
Physical Description:
310 pages ; 25 cm
Series:
Summary:
Garry Wills, both historian and journalist, exercises both crafts in turn. Sometimes gossipy, sometimes philosophical, he traces the lines of power in the Kennedys' lives.
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Prologue: Brothers -- Sex. The Father -- The President -- Sisters and Wives -- The Prisoner of Sex -- Family. Semi-Irish -- Semi-English -- Honorary Kennedys -- Ghosts -- The Prisoner of Family -- Image -- Creating the Kennedys -- Style -- The Prisoner of Image -- Charisma. Counterinsurgency at Home -- Enjoy! Enjoy! -- Delegitimation -- Veralltaglichung -- The Prisoner of Charisma -- Power. Bulldog! Bulldog! -- The Midas Touch -- "Learning" -- "Triumph" -- "Restraint" -- Charismatic Nation -- The Prisoner of Power -- Epilogue: Brotherhood.
ISBN:
9780316943857
9780316943710
Format :
Book
