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Every president, particularly a martyred one like John F. Kennedy, deserves a modicum of respect. The measure of any leader ought to be his stewardship in office and his ability to put the public good ahead of private gain. But, sadly, every President since Washington has had "debunkers," like Seymour Hersh in his new book about Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot [NATION, Nov. 17]. Such authors are all too willing to embellish the facts to besmirch the personal life of the individuals who have held America's highest elective office. JOHN T. BERNSTEIN SR. Bloomington...
...Seymour Hersh is an investigative journalist only as long as his inquiries fit the prior conclusions he has reached. His recipe for writing: boil down some quotes from murky sources, add a few references to obscure documents, smother with one's own exalted theories and half bake. PHIL LEVY Danvers, Mass...
Toto, I don't think we're in Camelot anymore. Where we are is in The Dark Side of Camelot, a warts-and-more-warts portrait of Kennedy by Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. This time Hersh has tackled a Kennedy mystique that for years has been subject to intense demystification. One after another, the books have grown nastier and dug deeper into J.F.K.'s extramarital affairs, his concealed health history, his suspected dealings with mobsters and the ways in which his father's money and connections smoothed his path to the top. All the same, The Dark Side...
...from the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, and there Kennedy is the serene leader who guides the nation away from nuclear conflict. He is the man with the best grasp of how wars arise from miscalculation and weakness, the man who turns aside his bellicose warriors. Now we have Seymour Hersh and his book The Dark Side of Camelot, an exhausting catalog of Kennedy's alleged sexual indulgences, cover-ups and unlicensed use of family wealth to buy his office. But there has been--and there is in the Hersh account--something incomplete and unsettling. Kennedy was President...
Efforts to expose what Seymour Hersh calls the dark side of Camelot began even before the idea of an American Camelot was born. On the day John Kennedy died, the best-selling nonfiction book in the U.S. was, as it had been for several months, Victor Lasky's J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, a withering attack on the character and competence of the President. The attacks have continued, and escalated, ever since--in books by historians; in memoirs of friends, associates and acquaintances of Kennedy and his family; in gossip columns and tabloids; and at times in official documents...