Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism (Second American Edition)

James Piereson examines the bizarre aftermath of John F.

Kennedy's assassination: Why in the years after the assassination did the American Left become preoccupied with conspiratorial thinking?

How and why was Kennedy transformed in death into a liberal icon and a martyr for civil rights?

In what way was the assassination linked to the collapse of mid-century liberalism, a doctrine which until 1963 was the reigning philosophy of the nation?