James Piereson’s provocative new book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism (Encounter, 2007) argues that liberalism lost its political dominance and intellectual coherence when it proved too brittle to confront the awkward truth of John F. Kennedy’s assassination at the hands...

The royal status the Kennedys temporarily achieved will seem bizarre to future generations--perhaps it already does even for those of us who can remember the 1960s.

A new book diligently linksthe downfall of American liberalism to the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy.