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Parkland (2007)

by Vincent Bugliosi(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0393347338 (ISBN13: 9780393347333)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Parkland is the perfect book for somebody who wants to know more about the assassination of President John Kennedy on November 22, 1963, but who has no patience for conspiracy theories. If you want to read one good book that tells the main story as best we can know it, this is it.In the Acknowledgments section at the end of Parkland, Vincent Bugliosi writes that the story of the Kennedy assassination is "endless", and I believe him. Parkland is in fact a massive 500-page excerpt from Bugliosi's compendious work Reclaiming History, in which he digs deep into every aspect of the story and tries to discredit the many conspiracy theories. If you don't believe the conspiracy theories anyway, Parkland is probably all you want to read from Reclaiming History (unless, perhaps, you... more're interested in Oswald's complicated biography).Parkland was originally titled Four Days in November, which is the name of the section in Reclaiming History it is lifted from. When it was made into a film (a pretty good film, by the way) it got a snappier, but somewhat obscure, title - Parkland. Four Days in November was a much better title, accurately reflecting the book's goal of retelling the events of the Kennedy assassination as a detailed, continuous narrative. Decades of obsessive investigation has created an amazingly detailed historical record to work from, so the story Bugliosi recounts is rich and compelling, not stilted and perfunctory and arid like many history books.
review 2: After watching the movie of the same name, I wanted to read this for a few reasons; one being that I really am a fan of Vincent Bugliosi, another that the movie offered viewpoints of this seminal event that are not regularly heard of and finally it addresses the conspiracy theories that have become more and more common as the years progress. My mom had always talked about JFK's assassination as most people who lived thru it, and I grew up hearing about it regularly, which in turn led me to read several books about the family. this was the first I had read specifically about the assassination, and found it compelling, interesting and full of insight. less

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