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Dallas '63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House (Forbidden Bookshelf) Paperback – March 20, 2018

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“Our most provocative scholar of American power” reveals the forces behind the assassination of JFK—and their continuing influence over our world (David Talbot, Salon).
 
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Shortly after, Oswald himself was killed. These events led many to believe there was a far greater plan at work, with a secret cabal of powerful men manipulating the public and shaping US policies both at home and abroad for their own interests.
 
But no one could imagine how right they were.
 
Beneath the orderly façade of the American government, there lies a complex network, only partly structural, linking Wall Street influence, corrupt bureaucracy, and the military-industrial complex. Here lies the true power of the American empire. This behind-the-scenes web is unelected, unaccountable, and immune to popular resistance. Peter Dale Scott calls this entity the deep state, and he has made it his life’s work to write the history of those who manipulate our government from the shadows. Since the aftermath of World War II, the deep state’s power has grown unchecked, and nowhere has it been more apparent than that day at Dealey Plaza.
 
In this landmark volume, Scott traces how culpable elements in the CIA and FBI helped prepare for the assassination, and how the deep state continues to influence our politics today.
 
As timely and important as ever in the current chaotic political climate, Dallas ’63 is a reality-shattering, frightening exposé not of those who govern us—but of those who govern those who govern us.
 
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“[A] 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.” —Kirkus Reviews on Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
 
“Highly recommended.” —Library Journal on Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
 
“May well be the most thoughtful and serious-minded of the 2,500 titles on the subject published over the years.” —Toronto Star on Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
 
“Peter Dale Scott is our most provocative scholar of American power. Scott picks up where the pioneering C. Wright Mills left off, shining a light on the dark labyrinth of power—a shadow world that has only grown more arrogant and wedded to state violence since the days of the ‘power elite’ and the ‘military-industrial complex.’ There is no way to understand how power really operates without daring to follow Scott’s illuminating path.” —David Talbot, Salon, on The American Deep State

“Breaks new ground on the deceptions that covered up anti-Castro assassination plots and protected the operation to assassinate JFK . . . an essential read.” —John Newman, author of Oswald and the CIA
 
“An incandescent affirmation of Peter Dale Scott’s stature as our sharpest and most discerning historian whose works expose and document the intricacies, concealed alliances, and underlying continuities that exist between a public state which is bound by the checks and balances of constitutional authority, and a deep state which is neither influenced nor informed by constitutional constraints. Highest recommendation.” —Alan Dale, moderator of the JFK Essentials forum

 

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Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. His diplomatic service from 1957 to 1961 included two years of work at UN conferences and the UN General Assembly, as well as two years in Poland. In addition to teaching poetry and medieval literature at Berkeley, he was a cofounder of the university’s Peace & Conflict Studies (PACS) program.

Scott’s most recent political books are The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (2007); The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (2008); American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (2010); and The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy (2014).

Scott’s books have been translated into six languages, and his articles and poems have been translated into twenty. The former US poet laureate Robert Hass has written that, “Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time.” In 2002, Dale Scott received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

Scott’s website is www.peterdalescott.net and his Facebook page is www.facebook.com/peter.d.scott.9.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media; Reprint edition (March 20, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 193 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 150405184X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1504051842
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.79 x 8 inches
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Customers find the book informative and perceptive, with a focus on the JFK murder. They describe it as an eye-opener with detailed facts and scrupulous documentation. However, some readers found the writing quality poor, disorganized, and hard to follow.

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  • anarchteacher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dallas '63: A Brilliant Synthesis Regarding the November 22, 1963 Coup d'état
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2015
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    Once again the intrepid Peter Dale Scott takes us into that claustrophobic wilderness of mirrors where the criminal underworld meets the establishment upperworld in the sub-rosa labyrinth of the Deep State. Scott is the premier synthesizer unearthing all the various seemingly unconnected strands of hard documentary factual evidence and counterfactual hypothesizing concerning the November 22, 1963 coup d'état.

    He begins by addressing head-on the seminal question of "Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?" in a brilliantly sketched portrait we have not seen before. The intelligence services (especially the CIA's chief of counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton - Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence (ADDOCI) suspected a Soviet mole had penetrated the dank bowels of the Deep State and obtained highly secret information concerning the U-2 spy plane. Soon an elaborate multilayered mole hunt began. Abroad, the CIA/State Department "dangled" Oswald as a US Marine radar operator "defector" to the Soviets, while in the US they compiled a byzantine, contradictory and ever-shifting documentary "legend" of manipulated and altered biographical data concerning Oswald as a trap to snare whom among the various interagency intelligence personnel who accessed his files was the possible mole. Upon his return to the US, Oswald continued his counterintelligence role as agent provocateur, informer, and ultimately as "patsy."

    In my personal library I have several thousand books, hundreds relating to the covert and overt background concerning the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. From every chapter, from every page of Dallas '63, leaps long forgotten names and events from these shelved volumes which Scott has masterfully woven into a head-spinning narrative describing the sinister milieu of intriguers from that period.

    This concise ebook is unlike any previous work on the subject in its magisterial detail of facts and scrupulous documentation of sources. I highly recommend it to the experienced JFK Assassination research community.
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  • Michael H. Young
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
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    Peter Dale Scott is one of the best researchers in the business. He takes the minutia of this case and makes it interesting.
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  • Brown, Walt
    4.0 out of 5 stars JFK's murder re-evaluated...
    Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018
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    It takes a deep understanding of the issues involved and it is helpful if you have read at least one of the previous author's works. His brilliance does not always translate easily for the first-time reader. Still, the work is an accurate portrayal of how elements of the United States government killed the President of the United States in Dallas, Texas, and have tried -- unsuccessfully, for some -- to hide the truth. Love Amazon, despise Trump.
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  • Dennis Watts
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    Answers a lot of questions from Nov 63.
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  • Paul
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2016
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    Good book, and credible, just too short. More of a long essay.
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  • Kenny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dynamite
    Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2015
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    This book is a part of a decades long series of works that collide political analysis, true crime, and poetry. I've read almost all of it. It is difficult to understate the scale of Peter Dale Scott's ambitions. It is my hope that he is remembered as as an important political artist rather than a political observer or activist. Scott's art is an epic long form challenge to not look away from horror in our politics but to understand and respond to it. Scott's agenda is to deal with the specifics of the world as it is, likely with the hope of arriving at a response that measures up to the immensity and complexity of the problems those specifics imply. It is true that much of Scott's work can be bleak but there is in his large body of work a constructive response that offers a strong case for hopefulness. Peter Scott's work is necessary.
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  • doubledpawn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful
    Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2021
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    This work covered not only the machinations of the Kennedy coup’d ta, but how powerful cabals behind the scenes have controlled the destiny of the United States today. Learned a lot from this work. The narrative in this book can be extrapolated in geometric progression to what we see today in not only our country, but all over the globe. Very deep work.
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  • Ollie Curme
    5.0 out of 5 stars like all of Peter Dale Scott's books
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2015
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    I have read this book, like all of Peter Dale Scott's books, and I found it delightful! Some of it is a rework and update of PDS' previous work on Oswald/Mexico/Kostikov/DFS/Staff D/ZR Rifle, and Oswald in Russia with an analysis of ONI, Popov, and Otepka. There are three new chapters on Milteer/Paulino Sierra Martinez/Del Valle/Giannettini, and Pawley/Bayo/Luce/Bringuier and activities of the deep state from JFK to 9/11.

    What I love about Peter Dale Scott's work is his deep scholarship and ability to tie small stories (like the Bayo Pawley affair) into a much richer context. The book is a work to be studied and read several times; it's not a quick read.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful and informative.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2024
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    Big money equates to big power. Big power means the ability to make more money. Fully sourced which means I've a lot more reading to do🙂
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  • Duncan MacDonald
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
    Reviewed in Canada on September 9, 2016
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    A great book that answers some questions re: the assassination of JFK and stirs up one's curiosity even more. Well written and provocative!
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