Teddy, We Hardly Know Ye

TITLE: THE LAST KENNEDY

AUTHOR: JOE MCGINNISS

PUBLISHER: SIMON & SCHUSTER; 626

PAGES; $25

THE BOTTOM LINE: Ask not why you should buy this book; ask why it was written in the first place.

It seems the courts will now decide whether Joe McGinniss is a plagiarist or, as his readers will find, just a lazy reporter. For at the very least, this is not a biography but the world's most slowly executed book report -- except this one has no footnotes and no index, only a bibliography listing 74 other books involving the Kennedys that McGinniss took years to ingest....

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