Volume 29, Number 6 · April 15, 1982
Elephant Man
By John Gregory Dunne
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power
by Garry Wills
Atlantic/Little, Brown, 310 pp., $14.95
There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis. First there were those huge, polluting gas guzzlers, the Sorensen and the Schlesinger, like Chrysler and Ford, now discredited and nearly bankrupt: useful only insofar as their parts can be cannibalized for nuts and bolts, their gushy excesses, like tailfins, always good for sport. Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so. And these days revisionism is the hottest item off the assembly line, each model sleek and economical, with a racy name, 'Destroyer,' say, or 'Marauder.'
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