Description:
As Black revolutionary H. Rap Brown famously declared during the 1967 racial riots in Detroit, "Violence is as American as cherry pie." While violence is evident in its endless wars waged around the globe and in gun violence and mass shootings in American cities, the extent of its eruption into domestic politics remains largely unacknowledged. Ten American presidents have been the targets or apparent targets of assassins, as have five presidential candidates. Eight governors, seven U.S. Senators, nine U.S. House members, eleven mayors, a U.S. Treasury Secretary and seventeen state legislators have also been victims of political violence. So have the country's first Secretary of Defense, a White House Counsel and a Secretary of Commerce, a CIA biochemist, numerous journalists and witnesses to state crimes, and even Beatles singer, John Lennon. Then there's Epstein and Charlie Kirk.
Successful, professional, credentialed historians continue to attribute known politically-related assassinations in this country to deranged loners--or "lonely oddballs with a firearm fixation." Nothing else to see here, folks. Cases closed.
Political Assassinations in America aims to debunk this ahistorical record. It shows that the struggle to gain or preserve political power in America has resulted in conspiracies that led to targeted assassinations--just like in other countries--which in turn have resulted in major policy shifts that were usually negative. A pattern of intelligence agency engagement can be discerned in many of the assassinations while a dense network of interconnected players across a range of high-profile crimes emerges, exposing the dark, thorough and very intricate complexity of American secret operations.
This book provides a rich trove for sleuths tracking down FBI/CIA conspiracies. Its notes effectively provide an archive of the findings of a wide spectrum of investigative sources who, over the years have been probing the official narratives' holes, with their findings appearing in books, newspaper articles, and videos, yet remaining unacknowledged by an insouciant public and complicit officialdom.
America will not look the same to you after reading this book. Think of it as a companion piece to the Epstein files.
Brief description: Jeremy Kuzmarov is currently a resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a Ph.D. in American history from Brandeis University and has taught at colleges throughout the U.S. He is managing editor of CovertAction Magazine and author of six previous books on U.S. foreign policy, including Obama's Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019) and War Monger. How Bill Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy Shaped the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden (Clarity Press, 2024).
Review Quotes: "An important part of my education has been discovering how thoroughly resistant are the media and the entire academic community to hard, cold facts that challenge the prevailing narrative. They go so far as to simply ignore an official inquiry that had been kept secret for 55 years in the Forrestal case, Virtually the sole exception to that rule has been Jeremy Kuzmarov, the managing editor of CovertAction Magazine. His open mindedness has served him and his country in very good stead in the production of this very valuable new compendium." DAVID MARTIN, author of The Assassination of James Forrestal and The Murder of Vince Foster: America's Would-Be Dreyfus Affair.