It's time we ditched the cult of celebrity

By Martin McKenzie-Murray
January 25 2013 - 11:01am

I have in my hands some American scripture, a small paperback first published in 1969. The book is Thirteen Days, Robert Kennedy's posthumous memoir of the Cuban missile crisis, the moment - 50 years ago last October - we skipped to the edge of nuclear holocaust.

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