"Remembering the Kennedys": A Reply.

The article comments on a paper written by Owen Dudley, published in the December 1984 issue of "Journal of American Studies," which reviewed a book on the family of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. In the book written by Gary Wills, the analysis of John Kennedy's "political Catholicism" is by far the best account of the subject the author has come across. It is a matter of public record that Kennedy was the first President to feel the full force of the civil rights movement. Colouring the whole article, in fact, is an attitude which gives it such unity as it has; which has brought Dudley his insights into Kennedy's Catholic political background; but which in the end makes most of his observations curiously unreal.