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Exhaustive Detail. Long the subject of speculation across the U.S., the 1,200-page manuscript of the book has proved to be something of a shock to just about everyone. Re-creating the events on and after the day of the assassination in exhaustive detail and in sometimes mawkish language, it describes Jackie Kennedy's every thought and emotion after her husband's death with such fidelity that the Kennedys-who have not read it but are familiar with its contents-feel that it contains things far too personal to print. "That's all she has left...
...forthcoming publication of William Manchester's Death of a President revolves around the legal validity of a "memorandum of understanding" signed by the author and Robert F. Kennedy in early 1964. The agreement states that "publication will take place promptly after November 22, 1968, and that "the completed manuscript shall be reviewed by Mrs. John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, and the final text shall not be published unless and until approved by them...
...apparently read the manscript and the book is scheduled to be published next year. On this basis, Mrs. Kennedy has a case. The Kennedys, however, have behaved so erratically in the past year that their sincerity is open to serious question. Last summer, after Manchester has finished the manuscript and it was being prepared for publication, Senator Kennedy sent him a telegram stating that "members of the Kennedy family will place no obstacle in the way of publication of his book." And at about the same time, a panel of former New Frontiersmen read the manuscript, and suggested changes...
...Kennedy has erred in refusing to confront the manuscript until now. She will have to read the book and undoubtedly withhold her approval. But she should never have given the impression that the approval of her late husband's friends was tantamount to a family imprimatur. Look Magazine, which will serialize the book in January, has reportedly started its presses rolling -- and if the injunction Mrs. Kennedy seeks is granted, it stands to lose a great deal of money. The bitterness and rumors this controversy has engendered could have easily been avoided if the family had taken the direct interest...
...process of bringing a book to market is still singularly old-fashioned and slow. Ten months, and often more, elapse before the accepted manuscript arrives, printed and bound, on the bookstore shelf. Delays menace every step of the route; there is no quick way, for instance, to edit a lengthy manuscript and to check and recheck the galley proofs for printer's errors. A book must wait its turn at hard-pressed printing plants, like Kingsport Press in Tennessee, one of the largest in the U.S. The sheer bulk of books retards their progress; jobbers have only so much...