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 “... required of him. He forgot to confide in Arthur Schlesinger, but Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, in their authoritative ‘One Hell of a Gamble’, also state plainly that ‘the Kennedy Administration had expected Castro to die before he could rally support for destroying the invasion.’ The ‘expect’ bit did not depend on the ...”
