Norman Mailer: Works and Days

The Great American Mystery: A New Dissent on the Methods and Findings of the Warren Commission

Mailer's review of Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, an analysis of the Warren Commission Report on the Kennedy assassination; Mailer suspected the editors at Book Week supplied the second half of the title.

Mailer’s review of Rush to Judgment, Mark Lane‘s analysis of the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy. According to Mailer, the editors at Book Week probably supplied the second half of the review’s title. Rpt: 72.7, 82.19, and Village Voice (1 September) — where the acknowledgments of 72.7 say, erroneously, that this review first appeared.

First published: 1966-08-28
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 66.10
Cite as: /works/1966-08-28-great-american-mystery
Last updated: 2026-05-30