Brief Shining Moments
Christopher Hitchens: Donkey Business in the White House, 19 February 1998
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
by Taylor Branch.
Simon and Schuster, 746 pp., $30, February 1998,0 684 80819 6 Show More
by Taylor Branch.
Simon and Schuster, 746 pp., $30, February 1998,
‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-64
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali.
Murray, 416 pp., September 1997,0 7195 5518 3 Show More
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali.
Murray, 416 pp., September 1997,
The Dark Side of Camelot
by Seymour Hersh.
HarperCollins, 497 pp., £8.99, February 1998,9780006530770 Show More
by Seymour Hersh.
HarperCollins, 497 pp., £8.99, February 1998,
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson , Bobby Kennedy and the Feud that Defined a Decade
by Jeff Shesol.
Norton, 591 pp., £23.50, January 1998,9780393040784 Show More
by Jeff Shesol.
Norton, 591 pp., £23.50, January 1998,
Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot
by Jerry Zeifman.
Thunder's Mouth, 262 pp., $24.95, November 1996,9781560251286 Show More
by Jerry Zeifman.
Thunder's Mouth, 262 pp., $24.95, November 1996,
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis
edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow.
Howard, 740 pp., £23.50, September 1997,0 674 17926 9 Show More
edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow.
Howard, 740 pp., £23.50, September 1997,
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection
edited by David Barrett.
Texas A & M, 906 pp., $94, June 1997,0 89096 741 5 Show More
edited by David Barrett.
Texas A & M, 906 pp., $94, June 1997,
Taking Charge: The Johnson Whitehouse Tapes 1963-64
edited by Michael Beschloss.
Simon and Schuster, 624 pp., £20, April 1998,0 684 80407 7 Show More
edited by Michael Beschloss.
Simon and Schuster, 624 pp., £20, April 1998,
Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes
edited by Stanley Kutler.
Free Press, 675 pp., $30, November 1997,0 684 84127 4 Show More
edited by Stanley Kutler.
Free Press, 675 pp., $30, November 1997,
The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Jupiters, 1957-63
by Philip Nash.
North Carolina, 231 pp., £34.70, October 1997,0 8078 4647 3 Show More
by Philip Nash.
North Carolina, 231 pp., £34.70, October 1997,
“... In Arthur Schlesinger’s court history, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, which might without unfairness be called the founding breviary of the cult of JFK, there appears the following vignette. Schlesinger had been asked to carpenter a ‘White Paper’ justifying Washington’s destabilisation of Cuba, in which the high-flown rhetoric of the New Frontier might form a sort of scab over the fouler business of empire ... ”
