"Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the forces undermining American democracy — of which the assassination, Scott says, is symptomatic…A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed."
—Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 1993
"the most challenging book of the year."
—San Francisco Chronicle, November 18, 1993, E6
"may well be the most thoughtful and serious-minded of the 2,500 titles on the subject published over the years."
—Toronto Star, November 20, 1993
"the best thing that has ever been written on the Kennedy assassination. I believe it will become the cornerstone of any future investigation."
—Mary McHughes Ferrell
leading researcher
"Those with good knowledge of the case will find that Deep Politics, Peter Dale Scott's newest work, offers perhaps the most useful synthesis yet of this particular skein of history…Scott's book is one of the rare few on the subject that bridges the gap between events on the surface and what he calls deep politics, that is, the behavior over time of institutions with the power to function beyond the constraints of legality. He doesn't indict likely culprits; rather, he helps us to comprehend the hidden underside of America's global political economy, with its huge, ongoing trade in money, militarism, narcotics and state power. Scott's brilliant, meticulously detailed lesson is, in a way, as much a guide to the current Iraqgate scandal as it is to the assassination."
—In These Times, November 29, 1993, 35-36
"a masterful synthesis…a major contribution to assassination research and, indeed, the social history of modern America. This work sets the standard for all future inquiries into the assassination."
—Alan A. Block
Criminology Dept.
Pennsylvania State University
"a trenchant analysis of Government's failure to solve the murder of President Kennedy…No one provides a broader and more revealing perspective."
—Gaeton Fonzi
former investigator
U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations
David H. Stern, M.D.
COPI
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