The Kennedy ObsessionJohn F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. In The Kennedy Obsession, John Hellmann takes a thoroughly original approach to understanding Kennedy's star power and his carefully crafted public image. Tracing Kennedy's self creation as diligent scholar, bashful hero, and sensitive rebel cued by cultural figures such as Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, and Cary Grant and the images of Kennedy in the