Volume 44, Number 20 · December 18, 1997
A Second Assassination
By Garry Wills
The Dark Side of Camelot
by Seymour M. Hersh
Little, Brown, 498 pp., $26.95
I am ready to believe nine bad things about John Kennedy before breakfast—until Mr. Hersh adds a tenth, and that makes me begin wondering about the first nine. The more charges he adds to the score, the more I feel I should be subtracting from it. He tells us so many unbelievable things he says we never knew that we begin to doubt all the things we thought we knew. If Hersh will just write two more books about Kennedy, I could end up as starry-eyed about the man as any Sorensen or Schlesinger.
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