Nation: Chapter II - or Finis?

Like many another woman before her, Jacqueline Kennedy last week got her way by stubbornly insisting on her rights. In her reluctant but aggressive battle to prevent publication of numerous personally embarrassing passages in Manchester's The Death of a President, she scored a victory over Look magazine, which plans to begin serializing the book in its issue out Jan. 10, and appeared likely to win a similar capitulation from the book's publisher, Harper & Row.

By threatening a costly lawsuit over the "painful" passages, Jackie forced Look either to delete or drastically tone down...