Well Worth Revisiting

I am currently half way through William Manchester's magisterial account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Death of a President -- a book I originally read some thirty years ago, and which, for some reason, I had the urge to read again.  It is gripping, hard to put down, and thought-provoking.  One passage I read this morning gave me goose bumps, because it could just as easily be referring to contemporary America:

"Hatred and fanaticism, the flabby spirit of complacency that has permitted the preachers of fanatical hatred to appear respectable, and the self-righteousness that labels all who disagree with us as traitors or dolts, provided the way for the vile deed that snuffed out John Kennedy's life."