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 6Show More ‘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 3Show More The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh.
HarperCollins, 497 pp., £8.99, February 1998, 9780006530770Show More Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson , Bobby Kennedy and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol.
Norton, 591 pp., £23.50, January 1998, 9780393040784Show More The Year the Dream Died by Jules Witcover.
Warner, 512 pp., £25, June 1997, 0 446 51849 2Show More Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot by Jerry Zeifman.
Thunder's Mouth, 262 pp., $24.95, November 1996, 9781560251286Show More 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 9Show More Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection edited by David Barrett.
Texas A & M, 906 pp., $94, June 1997, 0 89096 741 5Show More Taking Charge: The Johnson Whitehouse Tapes 1963-64 edited by Michael Beschloss.
Simon and Schuster, 624 pp., £20, April 1998, 0 684 80407 7Show More Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes edited by Stanley Kutler.
Free Press, 675 pp., $30, November 1997, 0 684 84127 4Show More 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 3Show More “... assert. For example, in his splendid 1991 study, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev 1960-63, Michael Beschloss demonstrated that Kennedy had been privately relieved by the building of the Berlin Wall, had publicly almost refrained from commenting on it, and had waited until two years after it was safely built before using it as a sound-stage for his ...”
