The interpretation of Kennedy and his years in the White House are vast and contradictory; “as both confrontationist and conciliator, hawk and dove, decisive leader and hesitant improviser, hyperbolic politician, and prudent diplomat, idealist and pragmatist, glorious hero and a flawed man of dubious character.”
The decade following the Kennedy assassination was mostly associated with the works of New Frontiersmen; the sympathetic ‘Camelot school’ narrative which assisted to stimulate the ‘Camelot legend’ and the almost mythical sense of idealism of the Kennedy years. The Camelot school were constructed upon the foundation of a climate of collective grief shared by the American nation; ‘spearheaded’ by Kennedy, created by speech writer Theodore Sorensen and stimulated by the work of Arthur Schlesinger; ‘A thousand days’ …show more content…
"Sorensen was frank about his own partisanship, acknowledging in his preface, ‘it is not even a neutral ac-count. An impassioned participant cannot be an objective observer.”
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The decade following the Kennedy assassination was mostly associated with the works of New Frontiersmen; the sympathetic ‘Camelot school’ narrative which assisted to stimulate the ‘Camelot legend’ and the almost mythical sense of idealism of the Kennedy years. The Camelot school were constructed upon the foundation of a climate of collective grief shared by the American nation; ‘spearheaded’ by Kennedy, created by speech writer Theodore Sorensen and stimulated by the work of Arthur Schlesinger; ‘A thousand days’ …show more content…
"Sorensen was frank about his own partisanship, acknowledging in his preface, ‘it is not even a neutral ac-count. An impassioned participant cannot be an objective observer.”
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