”The Dark Side of Camelot, ” a brand new guide by the investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh, relentlessly attempts to demythologize John F. Kennedy, portraying him being a careless, often-immoral cad whom accepted the assistance of mobsters to take the 1960 Presidential election, became enthusiastic about the requirement to assassinate Fidel Castro, and, against their better judgment, steered the united states of america deeper to the Vietnam war in order not to ever appear poor inside the campaign for a term that is second.

Mr. Hersh’s work is a number of exposes, some big, some tiny, instead of a balanced historic account. Much anticipated, it really is already much reviled, attracting very early critique from main-stream historians like Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. And Stephen E. Ambrose and article writers like Theodore C. Sorensen, whom question the memories and motives of Mr. Hersh’s sources and find the accusations, in Mr. Continua a leggere Book Portrays J.F.K. As Reckless and Immoral