Norman Mailer: Works and Days

The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After

Mailer's 175-word symposium contribution to NYRB's special JFK-tribute issue of 26 December 1963 — the first major post-assassination NYRB issue. The tribute is echoed, in part, by Mailer's 'Special Preface to Bantam Edition' of The Presidential Papers, May 1964 (64.15). Reprinted in A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, ed. Pierre Salinger and Sander Vanocur (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 May 1964). See 76.13.

“The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After.” New York Review of Books, 26 December 1963, 6. Symposium contribution. This 175-word tribute is echoed, in part, by Mailer’s “Special Preface to Bantam Edition” of The Presidential Papers, May 1964 (64.15). Rpt: A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, edited by Pierre Salinger and Sander Vanocur (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 May 1964).

First published: 1963-12-26
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 63.38
Cite as: /works/1963-12-26-fate-of-the-union
Last updated: 2026-05-27