Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. political culture
by Noam Chomsky
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This book is an analysis of John F. Kennedy's role in the U.S. invasion of Vietnam and a reflection of the elite political culture that allowed and encouraged the Cold War. --From publisher's description.
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Noam Chomsky is 91. Holy crap. My favourite Chomsky thing is the very short shrift he gives to conspiracy theorists. e.g. Rethinking Camelot, his book about JFK - https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/r... - the thesis being that JFK was really no different to any other president at that time - the idea he was radical…
on “Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky” ↗Best thing anyone interested in this to read is Rethinking Camelot by Noam Chomsky. Full text is online.[1] Without giving too much away, it's not about the assassination. It's about JFK's actual record, which calls into question the whole enterprise of liberal hero-worship…
on “Show HN: AssassinationFiles.net – JFK Declassified Document Search” ↗