The Dark Side of Camelot

by Hersh, Seymour M.

• ISBN13: 9780316360678
• ISBN10: 0316360678
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

This monumental work of investigative journalism reveals the Kennedy White House as never before. With its meticulously documented & compulsively readable portrait of John F. Kennedy as a man whose reckless personal behavior imperiled his presidency, The Dark Side of Camelot sparked a firestorm of controversy upon its initial publication - becoming a runaway bestseller & one of the year's most talked-about books. Now in paperback, this watershed work will continue to provoke public discussion as the debate intensifies over what constitutes proper personal & political behavior on the part of our nation's leaders.

Author Biography

Seymour M. Hersh is one of America's premier investigative reporters. In 1969, as a freelance journalist, he wrote the first account of the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. In the 1970s, he worked at the New York Times in Washington, DC, and New York. He has received more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. His books include Cover-up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre of My Lai 4 and The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. xi
November 22	p. 1
Jack	p. 13
Honey Fitz	p. 35
Joe	p. 44
The Ambassador	p. 61
Taking On FDR	p. 74
Nomination for Sale	p. 88
Threatened Candidacy	p. 102
Lyndon	p. 121
The Stolen Election	p. 131
Campaign Secret	p. 155
Trapping Nixon	p. 169
Executive Action	p. 185
Bay of Pigs	p. 202
Secret Service	p. 222
Crisis in Berlin	p. 247
Target Castro	p. 268
Judy	p. 294
First Marriage	p. 326
Missile Crisis	p. 341
Deceptions	p. 372
Ellen	p. 387
Vietnam	p. 412
Last Days	p. 438
Epilogue	p. 450
Chapter Notes	p. 457
Acknowledgments	p. 475
Index	p. 477
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