Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies. Scott offers a disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedy's death, and of the 'structural defects' within the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the lone assassin theory and the investigations undertaken by the House Committee on Assassinations, and unearths new connections between Oswald, Ruby, and corporate and law enforcement forces. Revisiting the controversy popularized in Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Scott probes the link between Kennedy's assassination and the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He contends that Kennedy's plans to withdraw troops from Vietnam - offensive to a powerful anti-Kennedy military and political coalition - were secretly annulled when Johnson came to power. The split between JFK and his Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the collaboration between Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police in 1963, are two of the several missing pieces Scott adds to the puzzle of who killed Kennedy and why. Scott presses for a new investigation of the Kennedy assassination, not as an external conspiracy but as a power shift within the subterranean world of American politics. "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK" shatters our notions of one of the central events of the twentieth century.
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"Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy. . . . A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed."--"Kirkus Reviews
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Peter Dale Scott is a Lannan Literary Award-winning poet and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also coauthor (with Jonathan Marshall) of Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (California, 1991), among other books.
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Professor Peter Dale Scott's book is a terrific reference book - and that's how it should be understood. This is not a book that you read through from beginning to end, but rather, a connect-the-dots analysis of the underside of American politics, that you dip into. Most revealing is his analysis of the Mafia, illustrating with facts and quotes, how the CIA essentially breathed life into the Mafia story, creating a useful, if fictional scapegoat of the foreign conspiracy.
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Scott dissects the Kennedy Assassination like no other book I have read. Rather than focussing on the plot as an external coup d'etat, he demonstrates that the Kennedy administration was the outside force, trying to break into a Mafia/Intelligence cabal in place since the war and paying the ultimate price.
The profiles of pre-assassination Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald are especially incisive. Hard going at times but more than worth the effort.
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This is one of the best books, surely, on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Peter Dale Scott takes the reader into the most complex of political labyrinths and makes the persuasive case that politics and underworld crime in the USA is deeply interconnected. Dale Scott meticulously takes the reader through this tortured underworld of relationships between law enforcement agencies, the military, Corporate America and underworld crime organisations and makes the credible case that Kennedy was indeed assassinated by a cabal embracing individuals from all of these institutions and networks.
First and foremost, I have to say that this book is not an easy read. Nevertheless, it is absolutely compelling all the same for the insights the reader gets into the tense Washington milleu under Kennedy and the forces ranged against the president across America. We see the struggle for power between Kennedy and Johnson and how the Chiefs of Staff were actually deferring to Johnson over Kennedy's head on matters relating to Vietnam. The most impressive aspect of the book in many ways (whilst being the most challenging in terms of perusal and cross referencing) is Dale Scott's rigorous research into the backgrounds of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. It is a book I'll read again.
First and foremost, I have to say that this book is not an easy read. Nevertheless, it is absolutely compelling all the same for the insights the reader gets into the tense Washington milleu under Kennedy and the forces ranged against the president across America. We see the struggle for power between Kennedy and Johnson and how the Chiefs of Staff were actually deferring to Johnson over Kennedy's head on matters relating to Vietnam. The most impressive aspect of the book in many ways (whilst being the most challenging in terms of perusal and cross referencing) is Dale Scott's rigorous research into the backgrounds of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. It is a book I'll read again.
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