Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott (English) Paperback Book

Description: Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott Presents a documented investigation that uncovers the secrets surrounding John F Kennedys assassination. Offering a different perspective - that JFKs death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - this title examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Peter Dale Scotts meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedys assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective-that JFKs death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes-Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies.Scott offers a disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedys death, and of the "structural defects" within the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the lone assassin theory and the investigations undertaken by the House Committee on Assassinations, and unearths new connections between Oswald, Ruby, and corporate and law enforcement forces.Revisiting the controversy popularized in Oliver Stones movie JFK, Scott probes the link between Kennedys assassination and the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He contends that Kennedys plans to withdraw troops from Vietnam-offensive to a powerful anti-Kennedy military and political coalition-were secretly annulled when Johnson came to power. The split between JFK and his Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the collaboration between Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police in 1963, are two of the several missing pieces Scott adds to the puzzle of who killed Kennedy and why.Scott presses for a new investigation of the Kennedy assassination, not as an external conspiracy but as a power shift within the subterranean world of American politics. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK shatters our notions of one of the central events of the twentieth century. Flap "A serious study by a concerned scholar into the underlying motives of our time. A book that will become part of our alternate history--to be read and studied by future generations. Thank you, Mr. Peter Dale Scott."--Oliver Stone "I have used Peter Dale Scotts work the way I would a CIA archive: to name names, establish relationships, and generate hyphotheses. That we still have no CIA archives, establishes the worth of Scotts work."--Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago "A masterful synthesis of decades of research into President Kennedys assassination. Weaving together the malevolent common interests of organized crime, J. Edgar Hoover, the CIA, Military Intelligence, and various upperworld businesses that comprise the "deep politics" most likely responsible for the assassination, Scotts work is a major contribution to assassination research and, indeed, the social history of modern America. This work sets the standard for all future inquiries into the assassination."--Alan A. Block, Pennsylvania State University "From probing the conspicuous deficiencies of the Warren Commission to exploring the skewed political priorities of the House Assassinations Committee, Peter Dale Scott offers a trenchant analysis of Governments failure to solve the murder of President Kennedy. Ive long been an admirer of Scotts prodigious ability to synthesize and clarify the disparate components that have been injected into the investigation of the Kennedy assassination over the years. No one provides a broader and more revealing perspective. From what he calls the underlying continuities of deep politics to the mutual interests of military, right-wing, intelligence agency and organized crime conspirators, Scotts selective revelations move the Kennedy assassination into the historical context all Americans must first grasp before they can truly understand the consequences that terrible event had--and still has--on their lives."--Gaeton Fonzi, Former Investigator, U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations Author Biography Peter Dale Scott is a Lannan Literary Award-winning poet and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also coauthor (with Jonathan Marshall) of Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (California, 1991), among other books. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface PART ONE: DEEP POLITICS, VIETNAM, AND THE ASSASSINATION 1. The Kennedy Assassination, Deep Politics, and Denial 2. Kennedy, Johnson, and Vietnam: A Tale of Two NSAMs 3. The Dialectical Cover-Up 4. The Key to the Cover-Up: The FBI, COINTELPROS, and the Case PART TWO: LEE HARVEY OSWALD 5. Oswald, Intelligence, and the Mob in New Orleans 6. Oswald, Intelligence, the Mob, and the Banana Companies 7. Mexico, Somoza, and the Martino- Rosselli Story 8. Ruby and Narcotics: The Heart of What Was Suppressed 9. Rubys Background: Narcotics, the Teamsters, and the Racing Wire Service 10. The Nationally Protected Drug Traffic and Rubys Relation to It 11. Blakey and the Politics of Fighting Crime 12. Ruby, Narcotics, and the Establishment PART FOUR: THE PLOT AND THE COVER-UP 13. The Coalitions against the Kennedys 14. Intrigue, Murder, Cover-Up: The Continuity of Manipulation 15. Oswald as an Informant for the Government 16. Oswald as a Double Agent for Hoover 17. Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police 18. The Assassination and the Great Southwest Corporation 19. Who Killed JFK? The Deep Political System Notes Bibliography Index Review "Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy. . . . A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed."--"Kirkus Reviews Kirkus US Review Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy - of which the assassination, Scott says, is symptomatic. Scott (English/UC at Berkeley; coauthor, Cocaine Politics, 1991, etc.) advances the idea that each decade has produced its own adjustment to prolonging and deepening the cold war but that this adjustment cant be seen merely as an effort of nefarious power grabbers but rather as a synergism emerging from many interrelated political layers reacting to each other. The author is less interested in actual facts than in working toward public control of political life. To do this, he uses a huge magnifying glass he calls "deep politics" - the study of "political practices and arrangements that are usually repressed rather than acknowledged." The JFK assassination, he contends, is only one of four incapacitating political crises in Washington since WW II: The others are McCarthyism, Watergate, and the Iran-contra scandal, which, along with the JFK killing, have striking continuities in personnel, supranational ties, and outcome. Scott warns: "I am not suggesting that the four crises were part of some single conspiracy, only that we recognize that in all cases the outcome was roughly the same: a prolongation of a system committed to the Cold War." His chief villain is J. Edgar Hoover, the real power behind McCarthyism, McCarthy himself having been a weak arm of systematic governmental violence that increased during Hoovers incumbency and that involved organized crime, assassination of black leaders, CIA assassinations, and much, much more. A kind of Rosette stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description Peter Dale Scotts meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedys assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective--that JFKs death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes--Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies. Scott offers a disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedys death, and of the "structural defects" within the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the lone assassin theory and the investigations undertaken by the House Committee on Assassinations, and unearths new connections between Oswald, Ruby, and corporate and law enforcement forces. Revisiting the controversy popularized in Oliver Stones movieJFK,Scott probes the link between Kennedys assassination and the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He contends that Kennedys plans to withdraw troops from Vietnam--offensive to a powerful anti-Kennedy military and political coalition--were secretly annulled when Johnson came to power. The split between JFK and his Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the collaboration between Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police in 1963, are two of the several missing pieces Scott adds to the puzzle of who killed Kennedy and why. Scott presses for a new investigation of the Kennedy assassination, not as an external conspiracy but as a power shift within the subterranean world of American politics.Deep Politics and the Death of JFKshatters our notions of one of the central events of the twentieth century. Details ISBN0520205197 Author Peter Dale Scott Short Title DEEP POLITICS & THE DEATH OF J Pages 424 Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520205197 ISBN-13 9780520205192 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1996 Imprint University of California Press Country of Publication United States Birth 1929 Place of Publication Berkerley Residence Berkeley, CA, US Edition Description Revised DOI 10.1604/9780520205192 UK Release Date 1996-06-22 NZ Release Date 1996-06-22 US Release Date 1996-06-22 Publication Date 1996-06-22 DEWEY 364.15240973 Audience General AU Release Date 1996-06-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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