12-11-2013, 12:18 AM
Jim's great review articulates much of what I was feeling while reading the new edition (which I still haven't completed in its entirety, simply as I felt increasingly frustrated, depressed and pissed off while reading it). The title alone seems like an unnecessarily dismissive self-fulfilling prophecy. On that note, you could sense Oliver Stone's frustration on Piers Morgan this week when Morgan blandly concluded, "Do you think we will ever know?". Stone responded, you keep saying that, but there is a lot of new research been done.
Some of the 'conspiracy theorists' that Summers takes potshots at have done a lot of good work as of late, to say the least - perhaps he should have had a closer look at what they've dug up. Arrggh.. Anyway, the Summers book frustrates me immensely for a number of reasons.
Shane O'Sullivan gave some enticing details about John Newman's new JFK book for next year on the Ed Forum yesterday. With that and the work of Bill Simpich and the others Jim mentioned there is plenty of cause to feel that we are just getting started. I have to compare the end of the new edition of the Summers book with the end of Alex Cox's recent THE PRESIDENT AND THE PROVOCATEUR. Cox finishes with an energising and optimistic call to arms for further research, Summers concludes with a bland, melancholic shrug.
If I finish the Summers book, I'll be blotting out the NOT in the title with my hand while I read it. If the truth won't be available in our lifetime, why bother to seek it? That's bullshit, and I'm not taking the bait.
Some of the 'conspiracy theorists' that Summers takes potshots at have done a lot of good work as of late, to say the least - perhaps he should have had a closer look at what they've dug up. Arrggh.. Anyway, the Summers book frustrates me immensely for a number of reasons.
Shane O'Sullivan gave some enticing details about John Newman's new JFK book for next year on the Ed Forum yesterday. With that and the work of Bill Simpich and the others Jim mentioned there is plenty of cause to feel that we are just getting started. I have to compare the end of the new edition of the Summers book with the end of Alex Cox's recent THE PRESIDENT AND THE PROVOCATEUR. Cox finishes with an energising and optimistic call to arms for further research, Summers concludes with a bland, melancholic shrug.
If I finish the Summers book, I'll be blotting out the NOT in the title with my hand while I read it. If the truth won't be available in our lifetime, why bother to seek it? That's bullshit, and I'm not taking the bait.