Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy (Cambridge Companions to American Studies)

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 US 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. Book Description The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy explores the creation, and afterlife, of an American icon. About the Author Andrew Hoberek is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is also the author of The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work and Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics. Hoberek has published in Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Language Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction, American Literary History, and Contemporary Literature. He currently serves as the book review editor for Twentieth-Century Literature.