Union College Union | Digital Works Honors Theses Student Work 6-2011 The yM thic Space of the New Frontier: The aF çade of The White House Tour and Visual Culture of the JFK Library and Museum Marissa R. Gentile Union College - Schenectady, NY Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses Part of the Political History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Gentile, Marissa R., "The yM thic Space of the New Frontier: The aF çade of The White House Tour and Visual Culture of the JFK Library and Museum" (2011). Honors Theses. 981. https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/981 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Work at Union | Digital Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Union | Digital Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Mythic Space of the New Frontier: The Façade of The White House Tour and Visual Culture of the JFK Library and Museum By Marissa Gentile * * * * * * * * * Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in the Department of History UNION COLLEGE June, 2011 Abstract ADVISOR: Andrew Feffer The motivation for this project came from my desire to investigate the substance behind President John F. Kennedy’s careful self‐presentation during his presidential campaign and incumbency, and to demonstrate how his memory is still prevalent in today’s society. I applied Robert Slotkin’s language from Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in TwentiethCentury America as a framework to my discussion on the language Kennedy conveyed to the American public, starting with his creation of the New Frontier at the 1960 Democratic National Convention.