cover image Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory

Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory

Barbie Zelizer. University of Chicago Press, $20 (307pp) ISBN 978-0-226-97971-7

A useful scholarly book on the media's efforts to promote themselves as authorities in our collective memory of JFK's assassination. (Nov.)