The Way We Were: 1963, The Year Kennedy Was Shot
With the ambition "to re-create the context that made Kennedy's death so unbelievable," public television's MacNeil has assembled over 400 photographs from the year 1963, arranged by month and hung with dozens of capsule interviews of persons well known and unknown. Part newsreel, part Kennedy family album, part pop culture scrapbook, MacNeil's collage concludes with a documentary of the assassination and its denouement. The affecting final chapter neither elevates nor transcends the preceding miscellany; the book's parts simply don't unite. A browseable, optional choice for public libraries. BOMC, Quality Paperback Book Club, and History Book Club selections. Robert F. Nardini, M.L.S., N. Chichester, N.H.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.