The Kennedy Imprisonment

With a new preface: An “irreverent [and] entertaining” portrait of JFK, the Camelot mystique, and the politics of charisma ( The Christian Science Monitor ). Described by the New York Times as “a sort of intellectual outlaw,” Garry Wills takes on the romantic myths surrounding the Kennedy clan in this thought-provoking examination of electoral politics and the power of image in America.   Wills argues that the much-admired dynasty, beginning with patriarch Joe Kennedy, created a corrupt cli