Opere di Cecil Stoughton
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1920-01-20
- Data di morte
- 2008-11-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Merritt Island, Florida, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Boys Town, Nebraska, USA
Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
Alexandria, Virginia, USA - Attività lavorative
- photographer
White House Photographer (1961-1973) - Organizzazioni
- United States Army Air Corps
United States Air Force
Utenti
Recensioni
The Memories--JFK, 1961-1963, of Cecil Stoughton… di Cecil Stoughton
Given that this was first published in 1973, I think that might be why there weren't more candid shots in the book. There also weren't very many in color, which disappointed me. Too many of the photos were "official" rather than familial. There were some wonderful pictures of the family and especially the children that I hadn't seen. The last picture of them leaving the White House was particularly poignant. Jackie truly put on a brave face for her children and the world.
½This is a hard book to rate because it is an unabashed hagiography of Kennedy and "the Camelot years." There is not a negative note to be found, and the pictures are uniformly heartwarming, showing Kennedy, his family, and his presidency through only the rosiest of rose-colored lenses. Nevertheless, it is a valuable book, because it also shows what we want to believe of the Kennedy Era.
In Robert Caro's magisterial book The Passage to Power in which he describes the assassination and LBJ's transition to the precedency, he talks in depth about how the fact that Kennedy's was the first assassination we could follow on television, coupled with the youth and attractiveness of the Kennedy's, changed - almost immediately - the assessment of who Kennedy was and what he had accomplished. LBJ's magnificent handling of the transition (no matter what mistakes he may have made later) were never adequately appreciated, so ignored was it (and he) in the face of the bombardment of warm images of the Kennedys that preoccupied Americans at the end of 1963.
And of course, LBJ was resented in any event because he - big, awkward, and unattractive, was alive; while Kennedy - young, handsome, and charming, was not. Certainly the Kennedys felt that way, and made sure that their view was reflected by the historians, reporters, photographers and others to whom they gave access to their records.
This book is an excellent demonstration of the campaign by surviving Kennedys to manage the memory of JFK and of "Camelot."… (altro)
In Robert Caro's magisterial book The Passage to Power in which he describes the assassination and LBJ's transition to the precedency, he talks in depth about how the fact that Kennedy's was the first assassination we could follow on television, coupled with the youth and attractiveness of the Kennedy's, changed - almost immediately - the assessment of who Kennedy was and what he had accomplished. LBJ's magnificent handling of the transition (no matter what mistakes he may have made later) were never adequately appreciated, so ignored was it (and he) in the face of the bombardment of warm images of the Kennedys that preoccupied Americans at the end of 1963.
And of course, LBJ was resented in any event because he - big, awkward, and unattractive, was alive; while Kennedy - young, handsome, and charming, was not. Certainly the Kennedys felt that way, and made sure that their view was reflected by the historians, reporters, photographers and others to whom they gave access to their records.
This book is an excellent demonstration of the campaign by surviving Kennedys to manage the memory of JFK and of "Camelot."… (altro)
Many large photos of Kennedy and his Presidency
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- Opere
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- Utenti
- 48
- Popolarità
- #325,720
- Voto
- 2.6
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 2