Article: Author gives up on JFK British biographer says Kennedy family, library thwarted second book

With furious parting shots at the Kennedy family, the John F. Kennedy Library and senior members of the Kennedy administration, British biographer Nigel Hamilton said yesterday he has decided to scrap the second volume of his controversial life of the assassinated president.

Hamilton, author of "JFK: Reckless Youth," alleged that the Kennedy family -- concerned about protecting the political value of the Camelot mythology -- has prevented the library from releasing key documents and induced senior officials of the Kennedy administration not to cooperate with him.

"It has been sad," Hamilton said, "for me to watch how this family has sought to marginalize what I was trying to do and ...

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