Capsule Review July 1960 Issue The Splendid Misery by Jack BellReviewed by Henry L. RobertsAbout the Author: My FA Anthologies Read more by Henry L. Roberts In This Review The Splendid Misery By Jack Bell Doubleday, 1960 474 pp. $4.95 Purchase Facebook Twitter Email My FA Saved Articles Print A rather freewheeling account, by a Washington reporter, of the American Presidency and of the Eisenhower incumbency.