The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War
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An important analysis into the causes of war and the long-lasting effects that major events in American history can have on foreign and military policies, The War Conspiracy is a must-read book for students of American history and foreign policy, and anyone interested in the ways that domestic tragedies can be used to manipulate the country’s direction.
First published in 1972, this edition of The War Conspiracy is fully updated for the twenty-first century and includes two lengthy additional essays, one on the transition in Vietnam policy in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, and the other discussing the many parallels between that 1963 event and the attacks of 9/11.
Peter Dale Scott
Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (California, 1993). Scott is also a poet: in 2002, his "Seculum" trilogy won a Lannan Literary Award. Jonathan Marshall is the Economics Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War (California, 1995).
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Imagine a skyscraper with thick black smoke billowing out of every window. That means there must be a fire raging inside, right? That's exactly what is presented here, so much circumstantial evidence of pre- and post-assassination shenanigans going on at the very highest levels that the very idea that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby were loners acting on their own initiative is ludicrous. Unfortunately, the waters were so muddied by both the FBI's and CIA's innumerable ploys and counter-ploys that we'll never be able to single out which anti-Kennedy faction was really responsible and who actually was pulling the trigger. If this was Game of Thrones Hoover would be both Varys and Littlefinger.I do like the author's approach to "Deep Politics", the idea that you have to consider not only the actions of Local Politicians and Local Law-enforcement but also Organized Crime when attempting to figure out what's going on. No one will ever admit it, but that seems to be a perfectly logical explanation for just how the big bad world actually works.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great information, just so damn academic it's difficult to get through