Even as the dispute over William Manchester's The Death of a President appeared headed for resolution, ripples caused by the controversy spread wider and wider.
Manchester lay ill last week in a Connecticut hospital, the victim of "reactive depression" and pneumonia induced by strain and fatigue. Jackie Kennedy vacationed in the British West Indies, and Bobby Kennedy still skied in Sun Valley yet that did not stop defenders and detractors from choosing up sides.
While Manchester was receiving get-well telegrams from the Kennedys (said Jackie's: "Please know how disturbed I am to...
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