Synopsis:

Mailer opines that Lee Harvey Oswald was a sincere Marxist, a nihilist and an inveterate liar who was motivated to assassinate John F. Kennedy in order to shake up the world, to create the conditions for a new kind of society superior to American capitalism or Soviet-style communism. Oswald, he suggests, was quite possibly the lone gunman, or at least may have thought he was—in Mailer’s scenario, there may have been other assassins present, unbeknownst to Oswald, conspirators working for some other group.

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Topics/Categories:

Assassination, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marxism, Nihilism

Type of Work:

Book

Publishers:

Random House

Purchase From:

Barnes and Noble

Original Publish Date:

January 1, 2007

Formats and associated ISBNs:

9780345404374

Formats:

Hardcover, Paperback

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