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THE MYTH OF CAMELOT: HOW JACKIE KENNEDY CHANGED OUR VIEW OF JFK
This 2300 word article tells the story of an exclusive interview Jackie Kennedy gave to Life Magazine one week after the assassination. In it, she talks graphically about Kennedy's death, and compares his presidency to Camelot, Arthur's romantic kingdom of myth and fable. The comparison, never used before, was suddenly seized by a grieving public, and came to define the Kennedy years.
7 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 5, 2013
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About the author
Jamie Malanowski
21Ìýbooks8ÌýfollowersJAMIE MALANOWSKI IS A WRITER AND EDITOR. A member of the original staff of Spy, where he worked seven years, Jamie has also been an editor at Time, Esquire and Playboy, where he was Managing Editor. Jamie has also written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Washington Monthly, and The New York Times, where he was the lead writer for Disunion, the award-winning series about the Civil War. He is also the author of the novels Mr. Stupid Goes to Washington (Birch Lane, 1992) and The Coup (Doubleday, 2007); the author of And the War Came, a history of the six months that preceded the start of the Civil War (Byliner, 2011); the author of The Book of Levon: The Trial and Triumphs of Levon Helm, an e-single about the life of the musician Levon Helm (Bolt Books, 2013); co-author with Kurt Andersen and Lisa Birnbach of the play and book Loose Lips; co-author, with Martyn Burke, of the HBO movie Pentagon Wars; and co-author, with Susan Morrison, of the humor book Spy High. His articles have been anthologized in Spy: The Funny Years, by Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter and George Kalogerakis; Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot To Print, edited by David Wallis; Mirth of a Nation, Volume II: The Best Contemporary Humor, edited by Michael J. Rosen; The Playboy Book of True Crime; The Fun Never Stops!: An Anthology of Comic Art 1991-2006, edited by Drew Friedman, Daniel Clowes, and Ben Schwartz; and Lincoln: A President for the Ages, edited by Karl Weber. Jamie lives in Westchester County NY with his wife, Virginia, and daughters Maria and Cara.
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