The Dark Side of Camelot (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Seymour M. Hersh
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Political exposé
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Chicago, and West Virginia
- Principal Characters: John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Marilyn Monroe, Durie Malcolm, Sam Giancana, Judith Campbell Exner
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
- Subjects: 1960’s, Politics, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Elections, Assassination, Cuba or Cubans, Government, Conspiracies or conspirators, Presidents, Fund raising
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, West Virginia
Few would doubt that The Dark Side of Camelot will rank high among the most controversial books of the 1990’s. Its publication late in 1997 was marked by unprecedented public notice, including a ten-page cover story in Time magazine. Seymour M. Hersh is a reporter whose exposure of the My Lai massacre won him a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, as well as being the author of The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. In The Dark Side...
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