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JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier
By Watts, Steven
- ISBN
- 9781250049988 9781466851153
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne: St. Martin's
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 12, 2016 | Nonfiction
This work by Watts (history, Univ. of Missouri; Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream ) has a similar feel to Mark White's Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon (2013) as it attempts to look at the philosophical and cultural currents that surrounded the rise of President John F. Kennedy (1917–63). The focus is on Kennedy's celebrity, with the author highlighting the senator's timely arrival as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
