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The Last Brother, by Joe McGinniss (Simon & Schuster, 626 pp., $25)

AWARE OF THE fusillade of abuse that has been aimed at this latest book about the Kennedys, I approached it cautiously, hoping, frankly, to find in it some redeeming features, if only out of sympathy for an author who had captured me in the past and now seemed to be the victim of an ambush. Even a thrice-familiar tale, well retold, can be instructive (I was prepared to say).

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The Last Brother, by Joe McGinniss (Simon & Schuster, 626 pp., $25)

AWARE OF THE fusillade of abuse that has been aimed at this latest book about the Kennedys, I approached it cautiously, hoping, frankly, to find in it some redeeming features, if only out of sympathy for an author who had captured me in the past and now seemed to be the victim of an ambush. Even a thrice-familiar tale, well retold, can be instructive (I was prepared to say).