Or are they? How many people know that on November 21st Senator Humphrey gave a speech on mental health in Washington in which he said that the act of an unstable person could strike down a great leader? Or that the next morning in Fort Worth President Kennedy quipped that the night before would have been a hell of a night to kill a president? This aggregate of detail, some of it significant, some of it irrelevant (i.e., Eunice Shriver always wears black when pregnant because it is slimming) both intensifies and extends the immediate experience. And the contents of the book are well known to begin with. The disputed passages have in part been globally disseminated. The issues it involves (has history been served? was privacy invaded? were contractual obligations broken?) have already been widely debated. Certainly no book has ever been published under quite these circumstances.
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