“HAS VIOLENCE BECOME AN AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE?”NEWSWEEK’S cover story asked. Time’s cover pointed a stark black handgun at the reader. “The country does not work anymore,” a young columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote. “All that money and power have produced has been a bunch of people so filled with fear and hate that when a man tries to tell them they must do more for other men, instead of listening they shoot him in the head.”
