Dallas 1963
Book description
In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of…
Why read it?
1 author picked Dallas 1963 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Whenever anyone writes about Dallas, Texas, odds are it’s going to include the rich, the seedy, and a murder.
In this case it’s the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But this book is so much more.
It’s a history of the moneyed-powerful and the stepped on in early 1960s Dallas, setting up an understanding of how this murder that shook the world was destined to happen in the Lone Star State.
And it’s a book I have been recommending for 10 years, not simply because it’s a riveting read, which it most definitely is, but because—despite the passage of…
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