Assume Nothing : Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe / Edward Jay Epstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Edward Jay, 1935-2024, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Conspiracy theories--United States.

Conspiracy theories.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Epstein, Edward Jay, 1935-2024.

Epstein, Edward Jay.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, [2023]

Summary:

"This memoir is the story of how curiosity led me to investigate some of the greatest political mysteries of our time, including the JFK assassination in Dallas, the Vatican banking scandal in Rome and the diamond cartel in South Africa. To learn about them, I often found myself a fly-on-the-wall at the highest reaches of the establishment where I saw how presidents, tycoons, bankers and media moguls secretly greased the wheels of power. Some accuse me of being a conspiracist, but that is not correct. I am essentially a puzzle solver. Instead of accepting the received wisdom of the media, I search for a puzzle's missing pieces, such as the autopsy photographs of President John F. Kennedy that were kept from the investigation conducted by the Warren Commission Finding suppressed or overlooked evidence often has the result of overturning the established narrative, as happened when I published my book Inquest on the Commission, but that is very different from seeking a conspiracy. Sometimes, it is true. my work results in uncovering a deep conspiracy, as happened in my investigation of the world diamond cartel; other times, however, it results in discrediting belief in a conspiracy, as happened in my investigation of the murders of numerous Black Panthers (which caused the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, whose reporting had suggested the existence of an FBI conspiracy, to issue editorial apologies following the publication of my investigation in The New Yorker.) My prime interest has always been in finding gaps in the conventional wisdom about an event. How I came to be a pursuer of lost truths is a curious story of self-actualization"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Nabokov Imperative

Encountering the CIA

My Iliad

The Magic of Self-Actualization

The Seven Most Powerful Men in America

The Liebeler File

The Night Thief

Hannah Arendt's Intervention

The Jolly Green Giant

The Great JFK Debate

James Jesus Angleton

De Mohrenschildt's Last Interview

Specter in Jakarta

Dick Clark Gets a Confession

The Moynihan Connection

Around the World in 60 Days

Amateur Politics

Meeting Kim Roosevelt

My Double Life

Forgetting Obama

News from Nowhere

The Black Panthers

Nixon's War on Drugs

The DSK Timeline

The Zia Crash

Being Early

A World of His Own

Nixon's Vacation

Donald Trump and the Tokyo Whale

Kissinger

The Last Days of Jimmy Goldsmith

Deception

The Hammer Tapes

The Curious Case of Jeffrey Epstein

Epilogue: Hall of Mirrors

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Epstein, Edward Jay, 1935- Assume nothing.

ISBN:

9781641772952

1641772956

OCLC:

1344447448