The Kennedys as an Example of the Ameican Dream
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Few immigrant families experience the success in America of the Kennedys, an Irish Catholic family, including Patrick and Bridget Kennedy and their four young children, who emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1840s. When Patrick died less than a decade later, Maier (2003) suggests, ôthere was little reason to believe that widow Bridget Kennedy and her destitute children, alone in the New World, wouldnÆt sufferö (34). Far from suffering, the Kennedy line spawned one of the wealthiest, politically influential, and revered families in U.S. history. The Kennedys became, under the Presidential leadership of John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline, the embodiment of the ôAmerican Dream.öThis analysis will explore the success of the Kennedys in three chapters: 1) Social and Material Success; 2) Political Success; and 3) Successful Legacy. A summary will then provide highlights of the major factors that played a role in their ongoing success. I became interested in studying the success of the Kennedys because of their alluring appeal throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. From Joe Kennedy, Sr.Æs appointment as Ambassador to Britain to John F. KennedyÆs New Frontier and to Caroline KennedyÆs role as first lady of California, the Kennedy mystique continues to form a cornerstone of the American imagination and hope for the future. I conducted my research into the success of the Kennedys through a number of means. I conducted an extensive search of t
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that makes them admired by individuals in classes far beneath them. Leamer (1996) illustrates this by sharing an excerpt of one of Kathleen KennedyÆs articles in Vogue, ôA Hard Society is a society characterized by separateness between rich and poor, between whites and blacks, between an intellectual elite and the unlearned masses, where both individuals and blocs are concerned solely with maximizing their own comforts and enforcing their own prejudicesö (666).
John F. KennedyÆs presidential victory in 1960 provided America with hope and promise. Jack Kennedy, young, eloquent and dashing, and his tasteful wife Jacqueline Kennedy, took the U.S. and international world by storm. John F. Kennedy, at age forty-three, was the youngest American ever elected president and the first Catholic. Part of the political success of the KennedyÆs stemmed in large measure from their embrace of assimilation for all immigrants. Well aware of the barricades that prejudice put up against social mobility for immigrants, the Kennedy vision of an integrated America struck a chord with a majority of Americans. If the Kennedys were viewed largely as the embodiment of the ôAmerican Dreamö, one of the major reasons for this perception was their view o
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