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Edward Jay Epstein, who wrote the article for the July issue of Commentary magazine, explains that he was given an opportunity to read the original, unrevised edition of Manchester's book, then tentatively titled Death of Lancer (Kennedy's Secret Service code name was "Lancer...
...from being simply a detailed and objective chronicle of the assassination," Epstein writes, Death of Lancer was "a mythopoeic melodrama organized around the theme of the struggle for power between two men, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson . . . [But] the characters bearing these names in Death of Lancer have at best a questionable relation to the real persons themselves and at worst no relation at all outside the heated imagination of the author...
According to Epstein, Manchester described Johnson in the book as "a crafty schemer," and "an oyster who patiently converts bits of grit into salable pearls." He also says that Manchester pictured Johnson, after three years as Vice-President, as "virtually impotent," and that expecting Johnson to help with Congress was, in Manchester's words, "like expecting an erection from a paramecium. It couldn't work. The creature had no member...
Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer may have the drop on the rest of the rookie crew with California's Mike ("Super Jew") Epstein, who stands 6 ft. 3½ in., weighs 238 Ibs., has a Star of David stenciled on his glove and can belt a baseball clear out of sight. The only trouble Hank has with Mike is carrying on a conversation. Mike, who studies social psychology in the offseason, likes to quote Socrates, Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson; even when he is talking baseball, he tosses off such words as indigenous and meaningfulness. Bauer finally had to take...
...into the publishing pantheon through the good offices of television and Joe Miller's joke book. "Bennett," says one fellow publisher, "is not an intellectual. He's not a literary man. He's an entrepreneur, an impresario." But that is only the surface of Cerf. Explains Epstein: "Bennett runs Random House as a conservative branch of show business. The company is vulgar to a degree. But what makes the difference with Bennett is how important he feels it is to have Philip Roth and William Styron on the list. Some other publisher would know a thousand ways...