Left," Harper's, April 1962, 25-32; Robert E. Lane, Political Ideology (1962) and "The Decline of Politics and Ideology in a Knowledgeable Society," American Sociological Review 31 (1966): 649-62; Herbert McClosky, "Conservatism and Personality," American Political Science Review 52 (1958): 27-45, and "Consensus and Ideology in American Politics," American Political Science Review 58 (1964): 361-82; Gilbert Abcarian and Sherman M. Stanage, "Alienation and the Radical Right," Journal of Politics 27 (1965): 776-96; Joel Aberbach, "Alienation and Political Behavior," American Political Science Review 62 (1969): 86-99; William Simon and John H. Gagnon, "Working-Class Youth: Alienation without an Image," in Louise Kapp Howe, ed., The White Majority: Between Poverty and Affluence (1970); James S. House and William M. Mason, "Political Alienation in America, 1952-1968," American Sociological Review 40 (1975): 123-47; and James D. Wright, The Dissent of the Governed: Alienation and Democracy (1976).

The emergence of the "Camelot" legend can be traced in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "The Decline of Greatness" (1958) and "Heroic Leadership and the Dilemma of Strong Men and Weak Peoples" (1960), in The Politics of Hope (1962); in the same author's Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? (1960); in Norman Mailer, The Presidential Papers (1963); and in the journalistic commentary on Kennedy's assassination and its social significance: Newsweek, 2 Dec. 1963, 36; Saturday Evening Post, 14 Dec. 1963, 22; Life, 29 Nov. 1963, 22; Time, 29 Nov. 1963, 84; U.S. News & World Report, 16 Dec. 1963, 84; Ben Bradlee, "He Had That Special Grace," Newsweek, 2 Dec. 1963, 38-48; Theodore H. White, "One Wished for a Cry, a Sob," Life, 29 Nov. 1963, 32D-32E, and "For President Kennedy: An Epilogue," Life, 6 Dec. 1963, 158-59; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "A Eulogy," Saturday Evening Post, 14 Dec. 1963, 32-32A; Ralph McGill, "Hate Knows No Direction," Saturday Evening Post, 14 Dec. 1963, 8-10; Richard Gilman, "The Fact of Mortality," Commonweal 79 (13 Dec. 1963): 337-38; and Ben H. Bagdikian, "The Assassin," Saturday Evening Post, I4 Dec. 1963, 22ff. For the persistence and proliferation of conspiracy theories, see "A Primer of Assassination Theories," Esquire, Dec. 1966, 205ff.; William Turner, "Some Disturbing Parallels," Ramparts, Jan. 1969, I27ff.; Fred J. Cook, "The Irregulars Take the Field," Nation, 19 July 1971, 40-46; Peter Dale Scott, "From Dallas to Watergate: The Longest Cover-up," Ramparts, Nov. 1973, I0ff.; and "A Decade of Unanswered Questions," Ramparts, Dec. 1973, 40ff. Criticism of the public's refusal to accept the Warren Report and its continuing belief in the existence of a conspiracy, often attributed to psychopathological needs of one sort or another, can be found in William V. Shannon, "Enough Is Enough," Commonweal 85 (18 Nov. 1966): 191-92; in the report of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Assassination and Political Violence (1969), by James F. Kirkham, Sheldon G. Levy, and William J. Crotty; in Garry Wills and Ovid Demaris, Jack Ruby (1968); and in Edward Jay Epstein, "Garrison," New Yorker, 13 July 1968, 35-81. Anthony Lewis's disapproval of the search for conspiracy is quoted in Harris Wofford, OfKennedysand Kings (1980).

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