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This book is simply phenomenal. I've always been a big fan of Mailer and I'm fascinated by JFK and that era of U.S. politics; the Cold War, espionage, conspiracy theories. Obviously there is an enormous cultural output about Kennedy and the Long Sixties, but this is unique. Mailer paints an entirely convincing canvas about Oswald and his bizarre and short life. Although supremely detailed and well researched, the book also has a kind of dreamlike quality, such is the weirdness and intensity of the tragic story it tells. Oswald's characterization is truly stranger than fiction - he has a distorted intelligence and drive, a deluded and impulsive personality, lashing out at what he perceives to be the weaknesses and limitations of others and of himself. I particularly appreciated how Mailer refuses to throw more fuel onto the conspiracy fire. Instead, he leaves any interpretations about the Kennedy murder up to…
This work looks at the life of harvey Lee Oswald. In 1959 he defected to the Soviet Union and was sent to Minsk, where he was kept under constant KGB surveillance on the suspicion that he might be a CIA agent. In 1993 Norman Mailer spent six months in Minsk retracing Oswald's two and a half years in the USSR, interviewing Oswald's former friends and sweethearts. He obtained exclusive interviews with KGB officers and access to KGB surveillance reports. Mailer also provides an account of Oswald's disastrous childhood and of the events leading from his return to the US in…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
“A thorough account of Harriman’s rise which also manages to be a brisk, twisty read … riveting and revelatory.” —The New Yorker
“a must-read book of Fall 2024” —People Magazine
“Rigorous but rollicking.” —The New York Times
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players
When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by…
