The Dark Side of Camelot
By (Author) Seymour Hersh
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
13th March 1998
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Biography: historical, political and military
973.922092
Paperback
512
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 34mm
340g
Jack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all - his father's fortune, and his own beauty, wit and power with a heedless, reckless daring. In this work, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, shows us a John F. Kennedy insulated from the normal consequences of behaviour long before he entered the White House. The Kennedys could do exactly what they wanted, and could evade any charge brought against them - the Kennedys wrote their own moral code. And Kennedys trusted only Kennedys. Jack appointed his brother Bobby keeper of the secrets the family debt to organized crime, the real state of Jack's health, the sources of his election victories, the plots to murder foreign leaders, and the President's intentions in Vietnam.
Seymour Hersch is one of Americas premier investigative reporters. In 1969 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 and New York. He has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards.