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Collier and Horowitz

The same year that the Davis book appeared, another anti-Kennedy
book was published. It was entitled The Kennedys: An American
Drama, and was written by Peter Collier and David Horowitz. These
two were both former editors at the liberal Ramparts publication.

After the magazine folded, both began to write biographies of
famous American families while on their way from the left to the
extreme right. In order, the pair examined the Rockefellers, the
Kennedys, the Fords, and the Roosevelts. As with Davis, it is
interesting to note the difference in their treatments of the
Rockefellers (1976) and the Kennedys (1984). In the earlier book,
the authors note toward the end that they had access to the
Rockefeller family archives (p. 636). In another book of theirs,
Destructive Generation, they write that the Rockefeller book
began when the pair were soliciting funds to keep Ramparts afloat
(p. 275). This is how they got in contact with the younger
generation of that clan. So when the magazine fell, they went to
work on the family biography with access to people and papers
that no outside, nonofficial authors had before. It is
interesting that, in 1989, the authors wrote that when they
started the Rockefeller book, they were expecting to excavate an
"executive committee of the ruling class" and thereby unlock the
key to the American power elite. But they found that they only
ended up writing about American lives (Ibid). They ended up with
that result because that seems to have been the plan all along.

Towards the end of the book, the authors strike a rather wistful
note, a sort of elegy for a once powerful family that is now
fading into the background (The Rockefellers, p. 626). This is
extraordinary. Consider some of the things the Rockefellers
accomplished in the seventies: they were part of the effort to
quadruple gasoline prices through their oil companies; David
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