Playboy Interview: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

May, 1966

Playboy Interview: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.Of the 90-odd books written about John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the 30 months since his death, many have been inane, unabashed eulogies with little to recommend them other than their charismatic subject. And more than a few have been morbid, commercial quickies—mostly about the assassination and its aftermath—designed to cash in on the nation's grief for its late President. Only a handful of the Kennedy books can be said to have revealed, with any measure o...