The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy [Hardcover]

The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy explores the creation, and afterlife, of an American icon.Featuring essays by leading literary critics, historians, and film scholars, The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy addresses such topics as Kennedy's youth in Boston and his time at Harvard, his foreign policy and his role in reshaping the U.S. welfare state, his relationship to the civil rights and conservative movements, and the ongoing reverberations of his life and death in literature and film.Featuring essays by leading literary critics, historians, and film scholars, The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy addresses such topics as Kennedy's youth in Boston and his time at Harvard, his foreign policy and his role in reshaping the U.S. welfare state, his relationship to the civil rights and conservative movements, and the ongoing reverberations of his life and death in literature and film.John F. Kennedy remains central to both the American and the global imagination. Featuring essays by leading literary critics, historians, and film scholars, The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy addresses such topics as Kennedy's youth in Boston and his time at Harvard, his foreign policy and his role in reshaping the U.S. welfare state, his relationship to the civil rights and conservative movements, and the ongoing reverberations of his life and death in literature and film. Going beyond historical or biographical studies, these chapters explore the creation and afterlife of an icon, a figure who still embodies  and sparks debate about  what it means to be American.1. Kennedy, Boston, and Harvard Eoin Cannon; 2. Kennedy and the Catholic Church Paul Giles; 3. The KennedyNixon debates: the launch of television's transformation of US politics and popular culture Mary Ann Watson; 4. 'Investing in persons': the political culture of Kennedy liberalism Sean McCann; 5. JFK and the civil rights movement Douglas Field; 6. Kennedy, the Cold War, and the national securitylã"