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Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Paperback – June 22, 1996

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Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective―that JFK's 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 Kennedy's 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 Stone's movie JFK, Scott probes the link between Kennedy's assassination and the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He contends that Kennedy's 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.
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  1. Print length
    442 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of California Press
  4. Publication date
    June 22, 1996
  5. Dimensions
    6.06 x 1.11 x 8.9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0520205197
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0520205192
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Customers find the book's research detailed and interesting. They describe it as well-written, worth reading, and brilliant. The pacing is described as provocative, dark, and disturbing.

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Customers appreciate the book's detailed research on President Kennedy's assassination. They find it contains interesting details and compelling conclusions. The author lays out great information, but some readers found it frustrating to try and combine all the information. However, the book provides theoretical insight and breadth of historical knowledge, making it a salient text for understanding American history.

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Customers find the book well-written and worth reading. However, they say it's heavy reading.

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Customers find the book's pacing engaging. They describe it as provocative, interesting, and well-written. The book attempts to understand and express hidden psychosocial forces in modern political economy.

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  • Jamey Hecht
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, deep, and unique.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2014
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    Amazing for BOTH the depth of its theoretical insight and the breadth of its historical knowledge, this is a salient text for understanding American history. There is no one quite like Peter Dale Scott, and his contributions have been far more influential for the dissident community and its political thought than is generally recognized or acknowledged. He coined the term "Deep Politics" and has been a key documentarian of US and international power dynamics--the deeds of corporations, nation states, intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, police forces, and thousands of named individual persons--since the early 1960's. You will learn much more than the outlines of the President's murder, as Scott depicts (geo)political reality as a dynamic system that includes ongoing relationships between the legitimate state with its laws and ballots and the "deep state" with its violence and corruption.
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  • Luc REYNAERT
    5.0 out of 5 stars Deep investigation.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2003
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    Peter Dale Scott poses essential questions and his investigations lead to very disturbing answers.
    He uses the JFK assassination as a paradigm for the revelation and understanding of the real powers in the US.
    With parallels to 3 other political scandals (MacCarthyism, Watergate, Contragate) he shows that there are deep continuities in the US political system. He arrives at the most alarming conclusion that the US power system is intrinsically vicious, violent and murderous and that conspiracies form an essential part of it.
    He shows convincingly that the real powers in the US lay in a symbiosis of public government, organized crime and private wealth.
    Most diabolic are the FBI (lead by the insidious Edgar J. Hoover) and the CIA, which are both responsible for the ruthless destruction of opponents and dissidents without legal or moral restraint.
    This book gives an appalling picture of the Agency, fighting for the justification of its existence and its resources by prolonging the Cold War. It infiltrated the media in order to preach its Gospel. It used organized crime and drug traffickers as means for its ends.
    Very revealing also is the fact that 20 percent of the shares of General Dynamics were in the hands of the mob.
    His final analysis is devastating: 'how far our office-holders, including our Presidents, have been reduced to the status of clients, dispensable when the more enduring patronage is withdrawn?' and 'To what extent has our visible political establishment become one regulated by forces operating outside the constitutional process?'
    After reading this book, I confess that posing these questions is answering them.
    A provocative, dark and disturbing book.
    A must read.
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  • JT
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to know who really makes the decisions, read this.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
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    This book is not about the assassination of JFK. Peter Dale Scott presents the dour political milieu that existed on November 22, 1963. Criminals with resources comparable to the government's and protection from the highest level officers of the national government conducted egregious criminal activities with impunity. This book concludes with convincing documentary support that the assassination of the President of the United States plotted, supported and carried out by multiple nefarious elements within corrupt government at all levels and private individuals from the overworld and underworld was inevitable. This book lays out the facts. The fact is, drugs, oil, bananas and political ambitions succeeded in eliminating the president of the United States.
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  • Al K. Mickel
    5.0 out of 5 stars A far saner and wider analysis of JFK's death
    Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019
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    This book and JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass are the best written attempts at grasping and expressing the hidden psychosocial forces in modern political economy, as exposed by events such as the assassination of JFK, that I've read. They surpass theory systems like Marxism, conservatism, capitalist economics or popular conspiracy theories and manage to convey, at least on an emotional level, how truly disturbing our civilization is. Please buy or at least borrow and read this book.
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