About this title: From one of America's foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a family that enjoyed public adulation but provided fluctuating leadership, that experienced both unparalleled fame and odd failures, and whose basic values ensnared its men in their own myths of success and masculinity. In the end, Wills reveals that the the Kennedys' crippling conception of power touched every part of their public and private lives, including their relationships with women and ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780618134434ISBN:0618134433
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. One, small, crease on front cover(diagonally across lower corner). No other creasing. Text is clean but edges are beginning to tan. Binding is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780316943857ISBN:0316943851
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Stated 1st edition--beautiful as-new hardcover, superb condition, no marks or bumps, not a remainder! 310 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780316943857ISBN:0316943851
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. VERY GOOD CONDITION-HARDBACK WITH NO DUST COVER, CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK, VERY NICE COPY-SHIPS QUICKLY. 310 p. Audience: General/trade. VERY GOOD CONDITION-HARDBACK WITH NO DUST COVER, CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK, VERY NICE COPY-SHIPS QUICKLY. NF-Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, Little Brown and Company, 1982. 20th Century; Biography & Autobiography; General; History; History & Theory; Kennedy family; Non-Fiction; Political Science; Power (Social sciences); ... read more
Description: Fine. 0316943851 First edition. Binding in excellent condition. Dustjacket in very good condition. Pages are slightly tanned. Thanks for your business! read more
"This book has been keeping me up way past my bedtime. Wills' style is a bit over the top at times, and the tone is often heavily dramatic, but his point about the dark side of our love for such gargantuan power figures as the Kennedys is uncomfortably on target. The book has provoked internal agitation and diatribes that I haven't felt in a long time, enough so that I have to wonder if my lips are moving as I read it on the bus. He succeeds in creating sympathy and understanding for the unlikeliest candidate in the family, Edward Kennedy. It's hard to imagine what it must have been like growing up with a SOB like Joe Kennedy whose litany was "There is no room for losers in this family."
I'm looking forward to reading Cincinnatus, his book on George Washington that he considered the companion book to this one. Also looking forward to reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys."
"Adds insight into the 'myth' of the kennedy's and how they were shaped more by their father into certain figures, rather than shaping themselves. Shows their flaws, as well as their accomplishments and burdens"
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