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[18] The New York Observer said of the book that it included "a selective rehashing of such conspiracy chestnuts as the Ike Altgens photo, which allegedly shows Oswald standing in the doorway of the Texas Book Depository at the exact moment he should have been firing away on the sixth floor. The book's real interest lies in its portrait of J.F ...
The review additionally stated that the book is "evenhanded, usually sympathetic treatment" and predicted that the book would be "immensely popular" but criticised that the story ended in 1961. [4] This sentiment was echoed by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt from The New York Times , who praised the coverage of the characters as "alive and individual ...
David Kennedy of the New York Times Book Review writes that after a careful study of Kennedy's prep school and college essays, and an analysis of his Harvard senior thesis, Why England Slept, "a picture emerges of an uncommonly curious, sometimes frivolous but increasingly earnest young man on his way to shaping an informed, clear-eyed ...
The history of the Kennedy family is so well-chronicled — from the modern Camelot legend surrounding John F. Kennedy's presidency to the series of tragedies that marked the family throughout the ...
The story parallels the 1969 Chappaquiddick accident, in which Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. In a New York Times interview, Oates said she began making notes for "a novel" in 1969, after she felt "a horrified fascination and sympathy" for the victim, who was in the car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy. ("But Ms. Oates insists 'Black Water' is not ...
In this new book, Elizabeth Beller explores her life through interviews with family, friends, and colleagues—as well as never-before-published photos—to develop a picture of a woman who was ...
Gerald Leo Posner is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993), which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
[51] A review of Lane's book by Neil Sheehan in the New York Times Book Review claimed that four of the 32 servicemen interviewed by Lane for the book had misrepresented their military service, according to the Defense Department. Lane responded to Sheehan's inquiries by stating that the Defense Department is the least reliable of all sources ...