Kathryn Cramer Brownell is assistant professor of history at Purdue University. She is the author of several articles on entertainment and politics and recently coauthored an editorial column on John F. Kennedy's political legacy for Reuters.
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Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy. But as Kathryn Brownell shows, Kennedy capitalized on a tradition and style rooted in California politics and the Ho... SEE MORE