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...series, which debuted Sunday, shortly follows the publication of Kennedy: The Book of the Major TV Series, by Reg Gadney, who wrote the original screenplay for the television movie. This book purports to show what really happened behind closed doors...
Bookstores offer similar fare. In addition to Gadney's book, there's Kennedy: The New Generation, which comes complete with a detailed family tree, a preface by Edward M. Kennedy, and hundreds of family photographs. Then there's William Manchester's Remembering Kennedy: One Brief Shining Moment, a self-styled "celebration of [Kennedy's] triumph." Manchester's conversational tone occasionally borders on the banal: "The White House is very white...You can scarcely believe that the place is inhabited. It is, because the White House is also a house." Although Manchester's book contains far more prose than the others...