The Politics of DeceptionThe Politics of Deception
JFK's Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Cuba
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Current format, Book, 2015, First edition, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist draws on classified White House tapes to reveal the 35th President's secret political activities at the end of his life, including covert deals to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis and an assassination plot against Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Analyzes the final year of JFK's presidency and presents the thirty-fifth president as a ruthless politician who buried the truth and manipulated public opinion.
The Politics of Deception is a revelatory look into a JFK that few will recognize. Pulitzer Prize winner Sloyan reveals an iconic president and the often startling ways he attempted to manage world events, control public opinion, and forge his legacy.
Analyzes the final year of JFK's presidency and presents the thirty-fifth president as a ruthless politician who buried the truth and manipulated public opinion.
Beneath the myths of Camelot lies the truth of the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
Patrick J. Sloyan, a young wire-service reporter during the Kennedy administration, revisits the last year of JFK's presidency to reveal a ruthless politician.
As the president prepared for his 1964 reelection bid that never was, he buried the truth and manipulated public opinion. Using Kennedy's secret recordings of crucial White House meetings and interviews with key inside players, Sloyan reveals:
- President Kennedy's complicity in the overthrow and assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem, an event that planted the seed for a decade of jungle warfare and a nation dividedThe secret deal to resolve the Cuban missile crisis that contradicts the popularized "eyeball-to-eyeball" account of Kennedy's dramatic showdown with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, who outfoxed the American president.Kennedy's hostile interactions with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the president's attempts to undermine the civil rights movement, which he viewed as destroying his reelection chances in the South
The Politics of Deception is a revelatory look into a JFK that few will recognize. Pulitzer Prize winner Sloyan reveals an iconic president and the often startling ways he attempted to manage world events, control public opinion, and forge his legacy.
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- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2015.
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