Volume 15, Number 9 · November 19, 1970
The Kennedy Fantasy
By Ronald Steel
The Kennedy Legacy
by Theodore Sorensen
Macmillan, 414 pp., $6.95
American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy
Interviews by Jean Stein, edited by George Plimpton
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 448 pp., $8.95
No Hail, No Farewell
by Louis Heren
Harper & Row, 275 pp., $6.95
Who Needs the Democrats?
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Doubleday, 86 pp., $4.95
The king and the crown prince are dead, and the heir apparent in disgrace. But the legend lives on, undiminished by promises unfulfilled, mistakes better forgotten, and doubts stilled by the cold hand of death. It is a tale with all the elements of a feudal chronicle—murders, usurped crowns, vendettas—and no shortage of troubadors to tell it. Theodore Sorensen, alter ego of John F. Kennedy and more recently a spurned aspirant to the public trust, now tells us, in words that will come as no surprise, that he views the Kennedy legacy 'as the most important body of ideas in our time…a unique and priceless set of concepts…that endures and gives us hope.'
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