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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, July 8,1976
D About books
The graying of Camelot
Capsule reviews prepared by the
American Library Assn
By Carol Felsenthal
For a man professing to
lack any intention of running
for president, Ted Kennedy’s
certainly not lacking in elec
tion year biographies. In fact,
more books have been written
in 1976 about this non
candidate than about any
officially-declared candidate,
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DOUGLAS HOLLBERG GRIFFIN. GA HUGH HESTER
THE LAST KENNEDY, by Robert Sherrill (Dial, 239 pages,
$8.95.)
EDWARD KENNEDY AND THE CAMELOT LEGACY, by
James MacGregor Burns (Norton, 383 pages, $11.95.)
SENATOR TED KENNEDY: THE CAREER BEHIND THE
IMAGE, by Theo Lippman, Jr. (Norton, 296 pages, $9.95.)
including President Ford.
Two new books are full
fledged campaign
biographies. A third is a full
fledged attack, clearly aimed
at keeping Kennedy from
changing his mind about the
presidency.
It was in July 1974 that
Kennedy announced he would
not, under any circumstances,
run for president. Not coin
cidentally, the announcement
came shortly after the
publication of Robert
Sherrill’s “New York Times
Magazine” article — an arti
cle packed full of devastating
ly damaging discrepancies in
Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick
testimony.
Sherrill has now expanded
that article into a book, “The
Last Kennedy” or, as he calls
it, “a case study of how a
famous politician —by
delays, by obfuscation, by
propaganda, by all sorts of
tricks and wiles — can kill
somebody under mysterious
circumstances and still
regularly receive more than
40 percent of the support in
presidential preference
polls.” Prior to Chappaquid
dick, nearly half the voters
wanted Ted in the White
House.
Sherrill argues this shows
not much of a decline for a
man whose personal in
discretions have recently
stimulated more headlines
than his political ac
complishments.
Our children
TED KENNEDY, from
“Edward Kennedy and the
Camelot legacy.”
So Sherrill, Washington cor
respondent for The Nation,
has used his crack in
vestigative reporting skills to
indict in print the man he
believes should have been in
dicted in the Grand Jury room
or at least in the minds of the
public.
Two-thirds of his book is
devoted to a meticulous
restaging of what Ted did and
didn’t do on that night in July
1969 — the night political
worker Mary Jo Kopechne left
a party in a car with Kennedy
and later crashed to her death
Don‘t let daddy bully the children
By DR. WILLARD
ABRAHAM
Copley News Service
Q. My husband seems to get
tremendous pleasure out of
scaring our little boy who is 5
years old. He tells him
frightening stories, talks
about the “bogeyman” and
uses loud noises in describing
him, and jumps at him from
behind a door, dresser or bed.
When our son runs to me for
consoling, cries, or hides
from him, he calls him a “big
baby” or “little girl.”
I have a feeling we will
have some problems later on.
A. What do you mean,
“later on?” You have them
right now.
The bully you live with
doesn’t know the first thing
about child abuse. It can be
caused just as much by emo
tional pain as by physical
abuse.
He needs help quickly, and
you need the support of your
pediatrician, family doctor,
your youngster’s teacher or
his school’s psychologist.
Whichever one of them can be
most persuasive in getting
your husband to lay off and to
get some parent education
(one of our nation’s greatest
“wastelands”) should be
brought into the picture to
help you out.
Q. I must get in touch with
the mother who wrote to you
about her destructive two
year old.
She said that he is impos
sible to live with, and I know
exactly what she means.
So may I please have her
name and address?
A. Because all letters to me
are held in confidence, I’m
unable to share this informa
tion with you, and I’m very
sorry.
It’s obvious that the old line
of misery loving company
exists among parents of two
year olds!
Q. I’m worried because I
recently read that the SAT
scores of high school students
are going down.
Does that mean that our
schools really are doing the
, poor job that a lot of people
say they are?
My concern is because we
have two children in high
school, and I wonder whether
their lower test scores will
permit them to get into good
colleges.
A. Although there has been
a small drop in the average
Scholastic Aptitude Test
scores of high school stu
dents, it doesn’t necessarily
mean that the teaching is
poor or that children are
learning less. And it certainly
doesn’t mean that your
youngsters’ scores will create
problems for them.
It may be that different
children are now involved in
the population being tested.
Some high-powered
Fiction
This Last Weeks
Week Week On List
I.TRINITY, 1 13
by Leon Uris (Doubleday, $10.00.)
2.1876, 2 14
by Gore Vidal (Random House, $10.00.)
3. AGENT IN PLACE, S 4
by Helen Maclnnes (Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovich, $8.95.)
4. THE CHOIRBOYS, 3 28
by Joseph Wambaugh (Delacorte, $8.95.)
5. GEMINI CONTENDERS, 4 •
by Robert Ludlum (Dial, $8.95.)
6. THE R DOCUMENT, 6 9
by Irving Wallace (Simon & Schuster, $8.95.)
7. STRANGER IN THE MIRROR, 7 4
by Sidney Sheldon (Marrow, $8.95.)
8. THE DEEP, 9 2
by Peter Benchley (Doubleday, $7.95.)
9. KINFLICKS, 8 7
by Lisa Alther (Knopf, $8.95.)
10. THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL, 10 12
by Ira Levin (Random House, $8.95.)
through the railings of a
bridge on Chappaquiddick
Island.
Had the government
prosecutors been as relentless
as Sherrill in investigating
Kennedy’s “obvious third-rate
falsehoods” and “second-rate
deceptions,” the Senator
might, at the very least, be
suffering a Nixon-like exile in
political oblivion for a cover
up which the author frequent
ly compares to Watergate.
Although Sherrill concedes
that Kennedy is a better
senator than he was before
Chappaquiddick, this portrait
is far from flattering. Com-
researchers are looking into
the causes.
There is plenty of room in
“good” colleges for “good”
students. The task of young
people, their families and
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What Americans are reading
Based on most requested books from the shelves of libraries in 150 cities around the country,
compiled by the American Library Association. (Distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
paring him to his dead
brothers, Sherrill concludes
that Ted may be the “best of
the Kennedys” but “that isn’t
saying much.”
Sherrill makes no claims to
having written a definitive
biography and even boasts
that his book’s narrow focus is
a plus. A full biography would
be boring since “Kennedy is
not personally that in
teresting.”
Inadvertently, James
MacGregor Burns proves
Sherrill right. If anything con
clusive emerges from his
definitive biography, it’s the
surprising ordinariness of
their counselors is to select
ones that are appropriate
based on the child’s abilities
and interests and the parents’
financial status.
Each year many freshman
Non-Fiction
This Last Weeks
Week Week On List
1. FINAL DAYS, 1 10
by Woodward & Bernstein (Simon & Schuster,
$12.50.)
2. DORIS DAY: HER OWN STORY, 2 22
by A.E. Hotchner (Morrow, $8.95.)
3. RUSSIANS, 4 18
by Hedrick Smith (Quadrangle, $12.50.)
4. BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES, 3 38
by David Niven (Putnam, $9.95.)
5. WORLD OF OUR FATHERS, 9 7
by Irving Howe (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich,
$14.95.)
6. BORN AGAIN, 5 3
by Charles Colson (Chosen Books, $8.95.)
7. SPANDAU, 6 8
by Albert Speer (Macmillan, $13.95.)
8. ANGELS-GOD’S SECRET AGENTS, 10 27
by Billy Graham (Doubleday, $4.95.)
9. CALLED INTREPID: The Secret War, 7 3
by William Stevenson (Harcourt. Brace,
Jovanovich, $12.95.)
10. THE ROCKEFELLERS: An American Dynasty, 8 8
by Peter Collier & David Horowitz (Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, $15.00.)
Ted’s intellect and character.
A Pulitzer Prize winning
biographer of FDR, Burns
analyzes the pressures on
Kennedy as a child, (the last
of nine children) and as an
adult, (the last surviving son.)
The flaws in his personal
character — the drunken driv
ing, sexual promiscuity, the
cheating on a Spanish exam at
Harvard — are also covered,
as are the Senator’s positions
on various political issues.
But in spite of Burns’ in
sistence that his isn’t an
authorized or official, much
less a campaign biography,
“Edward Kennedy and the
college openings remain un
filled. They are sometimes
not in the “name” colleges
but in others that may be just
as challenging and perhaps
even closer to home.
Camelot Legacy” does read
like a campaign biography,
albeit a campaign biography
with class. It shows a sprinkle
of wrinkles, but no ugly scars
— only eight pages on Chap
paquiddick, for example.
The author in 1960 of a “non
campaign” biography of John
Kennedy, Bums has repeated
the favor for Ted, just in case
the Senator changes his mind
about running. His book is oc
casionally critical, but finally
adoring — the product of a
confirmed Kennedy clan ad
mirer, a creator and protector
of the Camelot myth.
Am I realistic in what I
expect from my children?
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