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The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee de Paul R. Gregory

The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee

Autor Paul R. Gregory
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2022

Găsim în această carte o perspectivă rară, ce debutează cu relatarea directă a episoadelor domestice și a interacțiunilor sociale care au precedat ziua de 22 noiembrie 1963. Suntem de părere că valoarea acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea lui Paul R. Gregory de a transforma datele istorice reci în amintiri vii, precum cina la care a prezentat-o pe Marina comunității ruse din Dallas sau incidentele de abuz domestic din duplexul de pe strada Mercedes. Reținem faptul că autorul, deși a păstrat tăcerea timp de șase decenii, nu oferă doar o biografie, ci o analiză riguroasă a profilului psihologic al lui Lee Harvey Oswald, demonstrând că acesta poseda inteligența și motivele necesare pentru un asasinat solitar.

Spre deosebire de alte lucrări care explorează teorii ale conspirației, The Oswalds se ancorează în fapte observate direct. Cartea reprezintă o alternativă la Wife of the Accused Assassin pentru cursurile de istorie a Americii moderne, cu avantajul că Paul R. Gregory nu a fost un simplu investigator, ci un apropiat al cuplului. În contextul operei sale, această lucrare completează expertiza sa din Terror by Quota sau The Lost Politburo Transcripts, transferând rigoarea cercetării arhivelor sovietice asupra unui subiect american de o importanță crucială. Stilul este precis și analitic, evitând senzaționalismul în favoarea unei reconstituiri factuale a drumului spre Dallas.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781635768213
ISBN-10: 1635768217
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Diversion Publishing
Colecția Diversion Books

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria politică și de profiluri psihologice complexe. Veți obține o înțelegere profundă a vieții private a familiei Oswald, departe de miturile conspiraționiste. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege cum mediul social și ambițiile personale s-au intersectat fatal în 1963, oferită de singura persoană din mediul academic care i-a cunoscut personal pe protagoniști.

Despre autor

Paul R. Gregory este un cercetător de renume, responsabil pentru studiul arhivelor statului și partidului sovietic în cadrul Instituției Hoover. Expertiza sa vastă în economia și istoria URSS este reflectată în lucrări precum Before Command și Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy. A coordonat proiecte internaționale de amploare, inclusiv editarea celor șapte volume din „Istoria Gulagului lui Stalin”, lucrare premiată pentru contribuția la drepturile omului. În The Oswalds, Gregory își folosește abilitățile de cercetător și cunoștințele despre spațiul ex-sovietic pentru a analiza perioada petrecută de Oswald în URSS și dinamica mariajului său cu Marina.

Descriere scurtă

After Lee Harvey Oswald fired shots from the Dallas Book Depository and killed President John F. Kennedy, Paul Gregory, who knew Oswald better than anyone in America, was identified by the FBI as a known associate of LHO and faced one of many interrogations by the Secret Service. Later he would testify before the Warren Commission. Besides a brief article in the New York Times Magazine, he has remained publicly silent. Sixty years after the assassination, Gregory is telling all.

In intimate detail, Gregory captures his time spent with Lee and wife Marina in their run-down duplex on Mercedes Street in Fort Worth, Texas, being admitted into the inner world of a young marriage and candidly assesses the murder that marked a turning point in our country's history. His riveting recollection includes memories both casual and deadly serious, such as the dinner at his parents' house introducing Marina to the Dallas Russians, a front-yard incident of spousal abuse, and Lee's attempt to assassinate a retired general six months before the Kennedy shooting.

As a scholar and skilled researcher, Gregory answers the questions that collectively demonstrate that Lee Harvey Oswald had the motive, the intelligence, the means, and what Norman Mailer describes as the soul of a killer, to commit the JFK assassination.

Notă biografică

Paul Gregory is a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a pioneer in the study of Soviet and Russian economics. A student of the fabled Harvard Russian Research Center, he received his PhD from Harvard in 1969. His textbook on the Russian economy was used to teach more than two generations of students. In addition to his scholarly work, he has been an active blogger on Russian affairs for Forbes, The Hill, and other media platforms.

Recenzii

Nearly sixty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, conspiracy theories abound. In his revelatory book, Paul Gregory offers a compelling, credible account of why we should reject them and go ‘no further' than Oswald himself. Gregory actually knew Oswald, one of the very few people who can stake that claim, and gives us a clear-eyed, often chilling portrait of a demented loner with the mind and motives of a killer.

—Mark K. Updegrove, author of Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency

An invaluable record of life with JFK's assassin. Insightful.

—David Pietrusza, author of 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon—The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies

The Oswalds offers the most vivid portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald that has ever appeared. Could Oswald really have acted alone? Paul Gregory, who was the assassin's friend—really, his only friend—puts that question to rest. An astonishing account—and a major contribution to our history.

—Peter Robinson, the Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the host of Uncommon Knowledge

At last, a book, deeply felt and remembered, by someone who really knew Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife Marina before the assassination of President Kennedy. Paul Gregory makes a powerful case that Oswald acted alone, an inadequate man wanting to make a name for himself in history. A true cracker of an account.

—Robert Service, author of Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin

Paul Gregory's compulsively readable memoir is filled with shocking revelations, among them that when the twenty-one-year-old University of Oklahoma student Paul Gregory first started taking Russian language lessons from the twenty-one-year-old Marina Oswald, there was always the same six-month-old Time magazine on prominent display in the extremely modest duplex. The cover photo was Time's Man of the Year for 1962: President John F. Kennedy. Paul Gregory relates that Lee Harvey Oswald had carried this old copy with him when he and Marina emigrated from the Soviet Union to Dallas. No novelist would construct such a scene. History is unbelievable.

—John Batchelor, host of CBS Eye on the World

Some sixty years ago, an insignificant school dropout who had failed at almost everything he had tried to do, Lee Harvey Oswald, brought his Carcano rifle to the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas and became one of the most infamous criminals in history. Ever since then, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 has been engulfed in a morass of falsehoods and ludicrous conspiracy theories. This book finally sets the record straight about Oswald, building on the earlier seminal work of Priscilla Johnson McMillan. . . . Paul Gregory, who later became one of the world's leading experts on the economy of the former Soviet Union, happened to know Oswald (and later Oswald's Soviet-born wife, Marina) exceedingly well. In this book, Gregory brings to bear his authorial skills and academic expertise in showing how the pathetic young man he had known in Texas could have committed such a monstrous crime. Gregory's book offers a definitive personality sketch of Oswald and a great deal of evidence that should put an end, once and for all, to the notion that shadowy forces intent on murdering the president would have enlisted such an unreliable and tempestuous loser. . . . Gregory's book will stand the test of time.

—Mark Kramer, Director of Cold War Studies, Harvard University

An engrossing psychological portrait based on Gregory's time as Oswald's only friend. There are many conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination. Gregory shows that the key to what happened was completely banal—the disturbed mind of one insignificant individual."

—David Satter, author of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union




"An informative view of a killer's marriage and lethal motivations."


—Kirkus Reviews