Publisher Description
As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of President John F. Kennedy’s death, including the days immediately preceding and following the assassination. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive travel, and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation, accumulating forty-five volumes of documents, exhibits, and transcribed tapes. His ultimate objective—to set down as a whole the national and personal tragedy that was JFK’s assassination—is brilliantly achieved in this galvanizing narrative, a book universally acclaimed as a landmark work of modern history.
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“The book is astounding in its revelations, not
only of affairs of state at the highest levels of power but also in its unique
x-raying of a national disaster pursued by the author to its tiniest and
ultimate reverberation. In this reviewer’s experience there has never before
been a book like this.”—
Saturday Review
