Michael J. Hogan

The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A Biography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written in easily accessible prose, this book captures how we have come to remember one of the most popular presidents in modern American history. It is directed toward a general audience of educated readers, and toward graduate and undergraduate students in disciplines ranging from history and sociology to political science and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781107186996
• ISBN-10: 1107186994
• Artikelnr.: 47722833

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Hogan is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Springfield, and Emeritus Professor of History at the Ohio State University. Past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Hogan served for fifteen years as editor of Diplomatic History, the journal of record for scholars of American foreign relations and national security studies. He is the author or editor of ten books, notably his prize-winning history The Marshall Plan (Cambridge, 1987) and A Cross of Iron (Cambridge, 1998), his book on the origins of the national security state, and he has written numerous essays and articles in leading professional journals, including The American Historical Review and The Journal of American History.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: an introduction
2. All the world's a stage: constructing Kennedy
3. From history to memory: assassination and the making of a sacred symbol
4. Ritual and remembrance: cultural trauma, collective memory, and the funeral of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
5. In death there is life: monuments of paper and pen
6. In death there is life: monuments of glass, steel, and stone
7. The memory wars: contesting Kennedy
8. Gone but not forgotten: history, memory, nostalgia.