Refreshing the Camelot school: Kennedy hagiography at sixty - On Line Opinion
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is now more myth than man, his brief half-life enthronement at the apex of US political life, providing the basis for romance, not reality.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy is now more myth than man, his brief half-life enthronement at the apex of US political life, providing the basis for romance, not reality.
Camelot, the sweetly sentimental shorthand for a shortened US presidency, has generated a mythopoetry so rich it turns the stomach, clogs the intestines, and soils the historical record. With its effacing tendencies, its soppily loyal hagiographers, its ghastly, ...
Kennedy mythology will be on full display for the 60th anniversary of JFK's murder. Despite all the adulation, the real JFK was a man who can only be described with a four-letter word: Fake.
Kennedy mythology will be on full display for the 60th anniversary of JFK's murder. Despite all the adulation, the real JFK was a man who can only be described with a four-letter word: Fake.
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