Images of Jack and Jackie Kennedy have become larger than life with an extraordinary power to captivate, today as in their own time. This text speculates on the allure of these and other iconomic images of the Kennedys, using them to illuminate the entire American cultural landscape.
Shooting Kennedy shows how the media depiction of Jack and Jackie Kennedy during the ten years of their marriage drew upon major and minor masterpieces of Western art and popular culture in a way that persuasively encouraged postwar Americans to see their own lives mirrored in the handsome young couple's triumph and tragedy.
