19-07-2013, 12:15 AM
I am talking about the New Thurston Clarke book called JFK's Last Hundred Days. I meant that Clarkes book on RFK was similar to this book in the following way: both books are MUCH better than most books, in the sense that they do portray both RFK and JFK as significantly different from the consensus. But in doing so both understate the difference, and, of course both completely detach policies from even any hint of talk about the assassiantions and connection between policies and assassination.
The reason The new Clarke book is important is because it is going to get lots of media coverage i think. It is a container wall sort of book which is necessary because it could serve to inoculate people from much much better books by making folks say "i've heard that angle before" They will not have. But this book is hovering around 2,000 on Amazon and has not yet had its big ad and review push. Clarkes books get tons of MSM reviews.
That was kind of the function of The Last Campaign too. It was good compared to most but contrast that one with the MASTERFUL book by Joseph Palermo, a book that I think has not been discussed NEARLY enough...., and there is an ocean of difference. The Palermo book goes into incredible detail on the class differences between RFK and McCarthy, CIA involvement in McCarthy as a stop Kennedy ploy and most importantly to todays "left?" dichotomy-police, the ways in which the RFK campaign was forming linkages with local social movements and renegade union locals that threatened the entire cold war corporatist nature of Washington. The Palermo book is among the five most important books in understanding 20th century US politics IMO and NOBODY seems to ever read it.
Yes I will e mail Bonnie Faulkner. Her shows are often excellent . For example check out her December 7th 2011 show in which she rebroadcast an amazingly clear and crisp presentation by Larry Teeter that he made in 2003.
The reason The new Clarke book is important is because it is going to get lots of media coverage i think. It is a container wall sort of book which is necessary because it could serve to inoculate people from much much better books by making folks say "i've heard that angle before" They will not have. But this book is hovering around 2,000 on Amazon and has not yet had its big ad and review push. Clarkes books get tons of MSM reviews.
That was kind of the function of The Last Campaign too. It was good compared to most but contrast that one with the MASTERFUL book by Joseph Palermo, a book that I think has not been discussed NEARLY enough...., and there is an ocean of difference. The Palermo book goes into incredible detail on the class differences between RFK and McCarthy, CIA involvement in McCarthy as a stop Kennedy ploy and most importantly to todays "left?" dichotomy-police, the ways in which the RFK campaign was forming linkages with local social movements and renegade union locals that threatened the entire cold war corporatist nature of Washington. The Palermo book is among the five most important books in understanding 20th century US politics IMO and NOBODY seems to ever read it.
Yes I will e mail Bonnie Faulkner. Her shows are often excellent . For example check out her December 7th 2011 show in which she rebroadcast an amazingly clear and crisp presentation by Larry Teeter that he made in 2003.