Libra
by Don DeLillo
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Author: Don DeLilloEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-11-02
ISBN: 0140127119
Number of pages: 456
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Book Review: Fascinating take on the '60's
Summary: 3 Stars
This was a very uneven book in my opinion. It's premise of course is that JFK's assassination was a vast conspiracy plot with many people playing out private agendas. The book delineated those agendas well: exploring/explaining each player's motivations. There was the mafia who resented RFK going after them and interfered with their business or was it just because JFK had an affair with Giancana's gumma? Jack Ruby was a bit player who'd worked with Giacona in Chicago and was in debt to mobsters who used him as a trigger to shut Oswald up. There were many covert government operatives but the main one didn't like JFK's selling out the Cuban rebels after during Bay of Pigs and he wanted to scare but not kill the president into renewing his efforts for the Cuban cause. There were the Cuban rebels themselves who were determined to wreak vengeance. And finally, of course, there was pathetic Oswald. The first half of this book felt disgustingly sympathetic to him with his single parent upbringing, moving all the time, learning disabilities, other kids bullying him, poverty but it started to level out when DeLillo describes Oswald's physical and mental abuse to his wife Marina. Oswald's thinking becomes more and more deranged. I'd forgotten he actually kills a policeman who attempts to detain him soon after shooting Kennedy. I really didn't want to like or even sympathize with Oswald but I did come away from the book with a clearer idea of what might have formed him.
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