"Most books also reflect on the hazards of judging a foreshortened presidency. For example, in the 2012 edition of “Out of Many: A History of the American People,” John Mack Faragher and colleagues wrote, “We will never know, of course, what he might have achieved in a second term.”
Most books from all years told how television helped him win in 1960, and many implied that a smitten press made his presidency seem more than it was. “His taste and grace awed the media and reporters endlessly extolled the first family’s glamour and vitality,” Paul S. Boyer and colleagues wrote in 1990 in “The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People.”
That aura, more than the policy record, endures. And as years passed, the comparisons, whether respectful or skeptical, of his days in office to the mythic Camelot of King Arthur became more frequent even though the image had not been invoked — by his widow — until he died.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/textbooks-reassess-kennedy-putting-camelot-under-siege.html?pagewanted=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131111
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