Volume 1, Number 9 · December 26, 1963
The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
By Benjamin DeMott
He knew nobody and nobody knew him. What he was after, at the beginning as at the end, was a sign—a word from Out There, to acknowledge his difference, his specialness. But before the first hint reached him (from New York, on Party stationery), there were terrible silences and several bad blows.
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