Description: In the early 1960s, Dallas was full of extreme characters, many of them dead set against a Kennedy presidencyrabid politicos like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; oil baron H. L. Hunt; W. A. Criswell, leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world; and fanatical congressman Bruce Alger; along with a host of gangsters, civil rights leaders, billionaires, and marauding police. Beginning with the campaign for Kennedy's election and set against a nation in transition, the authors ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led numerous friends and aides to warn the president against stopping in Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas.
Brief description:
Bill Minutaglio's work has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Texas Monthly, Outside, and many other publications. He has worked for the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, and San Antonio Express-News and is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including biographies of President George W. Bush, Molly Ivins, and Alberto Gonzales. He also wrote City on Fire, a narrative retelling of the greatest industrial disaster in American history. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Review Quotes:
All the great personalities of Dallas during the assassination come alive in this superb rendering of a city on a roller coaster into disaster. History has been waiting fifty years for this book.
-- "Lawrence Wright, New York Times bestselling author of The Looming Tower and Going Clear"