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Title: Dark Side of Camelot, The by Seymour M. Hersh ISBN: 0-316-36067-8 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (78 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Camelot should be called Oz.
Comment: The on-line reviews of the book are telling: The ones attacking & debunking the book don't provide any substance. They attack the author, they call it sleaze, etc. But not one of them takes issue with the contents of the book, which is what a review should do. To those of you who still are seduced by the Kennedy mystique, I challenge you to find anything substantively wrong with Mr. Hersh's thesis: That JFK, because of his debauched personal life compromised his country in ways we couldn't heretofore imagine. A more apt metaphor for his administration should have been Oz rather than Camelot. And shame on all the people all these years who knew what was behind the curtain, but yet continue to propogate the lie. Unfortunately, there are enough people still out there who try to defend the indefensible, but they distort the debate by avoiding the issues and point out, among other things, problems the author had in compiling the book. Mr. Hersh took great care in researching his book, and that's why the "Marilyn Papers" didn't make it. He was honest enought and thorough enough to make sure only the truth got in. We need to judge the book by it's actual, not it's potential, contents. I wonder what Entertainment Weekly has said in the past about books regarding Richard Nixon? Do they defend him? Call those books sleaze? I doubt it. He was not an attractive man, and his sins are well-documented and easy to believe. But attack the handsome JFK... Ah, pop culture. The air-heads leading the air-heads.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Reading for Those with Romanticized Notions of JFK
Comment: This eye-opening book reports on the unseemly aspects of the events leading up to and taking place during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. It is essential reading for anyone with any glamorous or romanticized notions of JFK, his administration, and his presidency.
In an author's note, Hersh says explicitly that the book does not report on JFK's brilliant moments, nor does it dwell on his assassination. Instead, it covers the many unethical practices of Kennedy and his staff. These include:
* the theft of the 1960 presidential election, both in the West Virginia democratic primary, and in the Illinois electoral college;
* the strange last-minute selection of Lyndon Johnson as Kennedy's running mate, most probably due to blackmail by Johnson;
* Kennedy's philandering, whose shocking extent is documented by secret service personnel responsible for protecting him;
* Kennedy's continuation of Eisenhower's secret plans to assassinate Fidel Castro, both before and after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion;
* Kennedy's secret ties to Sam Giancana, a Chicago mob boss, who Kennedy dealt with both during the 1960 election, and in his attempts to assassinate Castro;
* Kennedy's secret first marriage to Florida socialite Durie Malcolm, which was quickly annulled, and all records of which were destroyed;
* Kennedy's continuous use of amphetamines, and other aspects of his physical health, such as the fact that he had sexually transmitted diseases for the last 30+ years of his life, due to continuous reinfection;
* Kennedy's use of a secret back-channel in his negotiations with Nikita Krushchev over the Cuban missile crisis, including the secret withdrawal of U.S. nuclear missiles from Turkey in exchange for the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba;
* Kennedy's affair with Judith Campbell Exner, also Sam Giancana's lover, who on at least one occassion carried large sums of money between the president and mob boss, and who also arranged for a secret meeting between the two men in her apartment;
* Kennedy's affair with East German Ellen Rometsch, a potential national security threat; and
* Kennedy's role in the overthrow of several foreign leaders, including the ouster and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Perhaps the most spectacular aspect of this book is not the quantity or importance of its revelations, but its thoroughness. Hersh spent 5 years writing it, and conducted hundreds of interviews. Many of the new revelations come from these first-hand interviews or from previously unreleased private manuscripts. Even some of the many interesting footnotes seemed to me like they must have taken days or weeks to research.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Dark Side of Camelot
Comment: Interesting book, Seymour. Quick get onto the British royal family, they would love you to write '' The Dark Side of a Wayward Princess'' If you got the girls slavering over the Kennedys exploits , just imagine how the boys would love..... the dark side of Lady Di, go get 'em Seymour!!!.All in all an interesting book , but like an early reviewer I could not get Kitty Keller out of my mind. Still we have to keep an open mind about all politicians.
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Title: A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Reeves ISBN: 076151287X Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 10 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 0446518840 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs ISBN: 0881846481 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek ISBN: 0316172383 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Jr. Schlesinger ISBN: 0618219277 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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