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The Politics of Deception: JFK's Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Cuba

by Patrick J. Sloyan

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Revisits the last year of JFK's presidency to reveal a ruthless politician. 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 divided; The 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. -- Publisher description… (more)
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The Politics of Deception may very well shock some readers, while some may not believe any of it. Having said that, Sloyan has furnished citations, and official documents along with first hand knowledge to build another level to the Kennedy Bibliography. The writing is concise, and fast-moving; Sloyan has constructed a compact, yet highly detailed account of the back-room deals that went on within the Kennedy White House. After a half century, it is a reckoning of the truth in many ways. I highly recommend The Politics of Deception.

Read the complete review in The Thugbrarian Review @ http://wp.me/p4pAFB-tJ ( )
  Archivist13 | May 10, 2015 |
This is a very interesting look into the behind the scenes deceptions of the Kennedy presidency and how he manipulated the public's perceptions. Kennedy looks like a hero after the Cuban missile crisis but actually was accepting an arms deal suggested by Khrushchev months before. Other lines pursued are his administration's shabby treatment of Martin Luther King and his role in the assassination of President Diem in Vietnam which will totally destabilize that nation which gets put in LBJ"s lap. A very well researched but that puts a lot of tarnish on that Kennedy glow. ( )
  muddyboy | Mar 22, 2015 |
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Revisits the last year of JFK's presidency to reveal a ruthless politician. 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 divided; The 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. -- Publisher description

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