29-07-2013, 02:10 AM
From Robin Ramsay's Lobster review - a solid book that doesn't cover the territory some of us would have liked it to.
"So: very good and nicely written. There are nits that could be picked, especially in the period between the Bay of Pigs and JFK's death: when the Kennedys were simultaneously trying to appease the anti-Castro Cubans and the US military/intelligence who wanted action; wanted to manage the Cuba problem' politically with the 1964 presidential election in mind; and cool the Cold War with the Soviets. There is more that could be said and other emphases that could be made. (No doubt some of the more enthusiastic Kennedy fans among the buffs will take the author to task on this.) And writing as one of those buffs, it is a pity that so few of the Cuban trails into Dallas are explored and the Cuban view of things omitted. But including all that would have meant another, much longer, less authoritative book."
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/l...erismo.pdf
"So: very good and nicely written. There are nits that could be picked, especially in the period between the Bay of Pigs and JFK's death: when the Kennedys were simultaneously trying to appease the anti-Castro Cubans and the US military/intelligence who wanted action; wanted to manage the Cuba problem' politically with the 1964 presidential election in mind; and cool the Cold War with the Soviets. There is more that could be said and other emphases that could be made. (No doubt some of the more enthusiastic Kennedy fans among the buffs will take the author to task on this.) And writing as one of those buffs, it is a pity that so few of the Cuban trails into Dallas are explored and the Cuban view of things omitted. But including all that would have meant another, much longer, less authoritative book."
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/l...erismo.pdf