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History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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History as Science Fiction
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pharaohs lived in the 3rd century AD

History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
Anatoly Fomenko
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Provocative, appealing and controversial.......2006-08-02

Fomenko has succeeded to convincingly demonstrate the misconception about what "history" factually is... It is fiction and -like we can read and judge for ourselves- no science. It indeed is "make belief" only. I "discovered" Fomenko while studying the "old" history of Al Andaluz, Spain. Having found too many contradictions in available data, having seen too many forgeries as to pretend the importance of christianity for its decline, I ventured out to find Fomenko, who convinced me that we know little if anything for sure of the epoch before the XI-century. However, the integration of the Arabic-Islamic cultural history into the heavily distorted Western fails... There are some attempts to fit "the budding new religion" (Islam) into Fomenko's scheme, but they are too weak to be taken seriously and too often focussing on Turkey as the region where things started to influence the West, which is untrue at all.
Islam certainly was no "new religion" in the X-century. That the highly cultivated Al Andaluz ruler Mohammed-I could have been "mirrored" down in time into some myth about the "illiterate" founder of Islam itself is highly speculative. Nevertheless, Fomenko convinces me about the processes that were involved in forging a christian history. Intriguing and controversial as his books are, I recommend them as to rethink our current position in time and space and simply verify what was claimed. It is a "good" book, but not for bedtime reading... Mundus vult decipi, the world wants to be cheated. Fomenko's readers will understand why.

pharaohs lived in the 3rd century AD.......2006-02-16

Traces of white wine were found in Tutankhamen's tomb however there were no record of white wine in Egypt until the 3rd century AD, 1600 years after the young pharaoh died according to the traditional chronology. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18925395.400
It can be interpreted as a contribution towards New Chronology theory that pharaohs lived in the 3rd century AD.

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Inspiring CDs.......2007-06-27

I purchased this after I learned about The Secret. The CDs are inspirational and interesting. I enjoy popping them in the car player and listening and learning.

A FUN WAY TO AFFIRM YOUR GOOD.......2007-05-21

BOB PROCTOR IS A ONE OF THE BEST ON THE SUBJECT OF MONEY AND PROSPERITY. HE GIVES SOME GREAT IDEAS AND THE SONGS ARE FUN. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS CD AND PLAY IT ALMOST DAILY.

Fun and helpful.......2007-01-20

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Learn to Accept Abundance in your Life.......2002-08-28

Michele has studied many teachers and distilled their wisdom. She mixes useful information with her dynamic enthusiasm and humor to give us ways to release psychological limitations and accept the abundance that is available to all who are open. Just hearing her voice sparks my enthusiasm. I highly recommend this audio program.

Sing to get money?.......2002-06-15

I'm sorry, I just don't get it. This tape had very little information and the whole idea of singing the song and let the money flow in just doesn't cut it with me. I understand obtaining money isn't all about working for it, this tape hints at how you have to change your internal feelings to allow youself to "accept money", but it just doesn't really get into any detail.

Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq

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Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
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It was supposed to be quick and easy. The Bush Administration even promised that it wouldn't cost American taxpayers a thing -- Iraqi oil revenues would pay for it all. But billions and billions of dollars, and thousands of lives, later, the Iraqi reconstruction is an undeniable failure. Iraq pumps out less oil now than it did under Saddam. At best, Iraqi's average all of twelve hours a day of electricity. American soldiers lack body armor and adequate protection for their motor vehicles. Increasingly worse off, Iraqi's turn against us. Increasingly worse off, our troops are killed by a strengthening insurgency. As T. Christian Miller reveals in this searing and timely book, the Bush Administration has fatally undermined the war effort and our soldiers by handing out mountains of cash not to the best companies for the reconstruction effort, but to buddies, cronies, relatives and political hacks -- some of whom have simply taken the money and run with it. Blistering, brilliant and shocking, this will be the breakout title when it comes to Iraq books, and the catalyst for national debate.

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No blood money.......2007-05-10

This book is a devastating indictment of the US intervention in Iraq. For the author, the clearest signal of the failure of the reconstruction program is the unabated violence.
The second Iraq war created a paradise for cynical war profiteers, while the Iraqi population was left in the cold. The aid packages were in fact remarkable programs of US domestic handouts and corporate welfare, profiting nearly only to retired Republican operatives, US businessmen and dubious Iraqi exiles with a double agenda.
The profiteers organized an orgy of greed on profit guaranteed contracts. Control was inexistent, e.g., $ 9 billion out of the $ 20 billion of the Iraq Development Fund disappeared without a trace (mind-boggling!). Insurance companies sold mouth watering policies for labor protection. Foreign private security firms played a leading role in the daily violence in Iraq. The contractors hired slave laborers in order to maximize their profits.
The newly installed Iraqi government was not a shade better, e.g., its Defense Ministry misspent or `lost' $ 1.3 billion in its first year in office.

The author illustrates poignantly his terribly shocking exposé with concrete examples of personal tragedies, like the suicide of Col. Ted Westhusing, or the murder by his kidnappers of a 19 year old Nepalese, who paid a broker's fee of $ 3000 for a $ 200 per month job in Iraq.

Miller's book shows also the disastrous effect the UN sanctions had on the Iraqis under Saddam (one schoolbook for every six children).
Its final conclusion is that the Iraqi people didn't receive `blood money' - the payment of compensation by an attacker to the family members of dead or injured loved ones. Instead, they inherited a living standard below the `Saddam' level (no power, no water, no sewage treatment).

This book with its formidable title is a must read for all those interested in world current affairs.

How the US snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.......2007-04-23

This books deserves a Pulitzer Prize for plugging the huge gap in our knowledge of why the spectacular military triumph was succeeded by the even more spectacular reconstruction fiasco that quickly alienated average Iraqis. The press has focused mostly on the daily casualty counts and on the political maneuvering among Iraqi religious and secular leaders. Left unreported has been the story of why the mainstream Iraqi population that was so hopeful after the US toppled Saddam has turned against us in despair. Miller's investigation and reporting skills are remarkable in detailing so much of what went wrong with virtually every aspect of the occupation. Much of the blame is attributable to the unprecedented reliance on profit-driven private sector firms to carry out public policy of rebuilding Iraq -- which was doomed to failure because normal marke forces don't exist to control behavior of corporations left to run amok. Absolute must reading for anyone trying to understand how any American military success can be rapidly and overwhelmingly squandered by failure to plan for all that must follow.

Conservatives should be the most furious.......2007-03-07

Much about the Iraq "war" has been covered. The mythology, the manifest destiny, the lies, the propoganda. But one dimension that's been touched on by Robert Greenwald in "Iraq for Sale" and this fine, fine volume is the profiteering that's going on in Iraq.

Some others critics have commented that the book doesn't list criminals. On the contrary, many are implicated! Indeed, aside from the corporations and their directors who are making out quite literally like bandits, the text also covers the dubious qualifications of those assigned to high positions in Iraq, e.g., persons who were chosen because of their position on Roe v. Wade.

Those who purport to be conservative should be the most angry at what is going on. When they talk about big government, yet refuse to complain when megacorporations are charging the taxpayers--yes, that's you and me--hundreds--THOUSANDS of times what a service is worth there is something wrong. And this book specifies who's getting away with those acts so far. (In a review, I regret I can't get more specific or my review will be eliminated.)

Get this book for yourself and for ALL who still defend what's going on, especially those, again, who claim to be conservatives. This truly is the most important book I've read on the "war" and I'm well-read on the subject. I talked with an attorney referred to in the text who argues that a main motive for the war is to establish a new ruling class. You'll be able to figure out how such a ruling class may be established by reading and pondering this fine volume.

Crime Without Crimnals.......2007-02-05

This book lists crimes but pulls back from from pointing to the criminals.

The crimes themselves are well known to readers of the Internet. There is nothing new here. If you don't pay attention to the Internet the list of crimes and profiteering in Iraq is sobering.

Probably out of a justified fear of retribution the author fails to draw the obvious conclusions of who did what.

Three stars for generalities and one star for specifics= two stars overall.

superb. devastating. fascinating, in the "oh say it ain't so" kind of curious way........2007-01-06

this book is a top-notch read for anyone interested in economics, politics, war, business culture, ethics, international relations, modern history, the worth of honesty, and tofu. just kidding about that last one. it's not simply rubber-necking, it's very insightful analysis and devoted journalism.

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Penzler Pick, March 2000: When Thomas Perry won his Edgar for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America in 1983, anyone who'd read The Butcher's Boy cheered. That remarkable tale of a likable hit man stayed in one's mind long after the last page had been turned. Now with nine more highly original thrillers to his credit, Perry still knows how to keep us enthralled and, even better, surprised.

After several standalone titles, Perry began to produce a series unlike any other, giving us in Jane Whitefield a heroine that I'd have to imagine many of Hollywood's hippest young stars are fighting to play. Introduced in Sleeping Dogs, Jane is a "guide" of a very special kind, a sort of warrior-goddess capable of the most daring feats of cunning and courage who by day pursues a satisfying life off the radar as a suburban surgeon's wife. Her ordinary existence is, in fact, so contented--and her husband so worried for her safety when she's helping mortally threatened men, women, and children--that each time she's approached with a desperate case by a new victim of evil, her first instinct is to say no. But there would be no series if she did, and we would miss her intricately assembled exploits.

Picture the Scarlet Pimpernel looking like the singer Buffy Ste. Marie (Jane's of native American heritage) and equally skilled at disguise and seat-of-the-pants strategy. Isn't that the sort of companion you'd welcome if you were on the run from the Mob with $20 billion (that's with a "b") of their money, its secret whereabouts all stored mnemonically in your head? Maybe you'd rather have the U.S. Marine Corps on your side, but if that's not an option, newcomers to the Jane Whitefield books will quickly learn (and her fans already know) that she can pull it off on her own. A wonderfully entertaining element of these original adventures is that Jane's guiding principle is simplicity. Thus, the reader's vicarious thrills lie in watching the process, the twists and turns of her schemes and, above all, her amazing capacity for forethought.

Blood Money, like all the novels by Perry, works equally well on the level of character study as it does in nail-biting suspense. The novels can be read as much for their remarkable insights into human nature as for the excitement of a first-rate thriller. Surely Perry ranks among the very top of the crime-writing fraternity. --Otto Penzler

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"Thomas Perry just keeps getting better," said Tony Hillerman, about Sleeping Dogs--and in this superb new novel by one of America's best thriller writers, Jane Whitefield takes on the mafia, and its money.

Jane Whitefield, the fearless "guide" who helps people in trouble disappear, make victims vanish,has just begun her quiet new life as Mrs. Carey McKinnon, when she is called upon again, to face her toughest opponents yet. Jane must try to save a young girl fleeing a deadly mafioso. Yet the deceptively simple task of hiding a girl propels Jane into the center of horrific events, and pairs her with Bernie the Elephant, the mafia's man with the money. Bernie has a photographic memory, and in order to undo an evil that has been growing for half a century,he and Jane engineer the biggest theft of all time, stealing billions from hidden mafia accounts and donating the money to charity. Heart-stopping pace, fine writing, and mesmerizing characters combine in Blood Money to make it the best novel yet by the writer called "one of America's finest storytellers,"(San Francisco Examiner).

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Imaginative story overcomes flaws.......2002-09-11

Thomas Perry is a very imaginative writer. The character, indeed the whole concept of a guide who helps people hide is unique and therefore interesting to one who spends a lot of time reading suspense and mystery novels. My only complaint is that Jane is too good - the reader never doubts that she will get out of any jam, so the suspense is somewhat deflated. But the writing and the story more than make up for this.

As far as the presentation of the Mafia as a powerful, efficient machine, well, just suspend your disbelief and you'll do fine. It's certainly more interesting than the myth of the invincible US military we are subjected to in countless boring novels.

I'm looking for more Thomas Perry right now...

Good, but far from his best.......2002-06-20

As an avid Perry fan who's been reading the Jane Whitfield stories since the first came out, this is my first disappointment. It's still a decent light read, but somehow Perry loses his way.

The biggest flaw is that the lengthy discussions of intramural squabbling among Mafia families doesn't tie in well with the pursuit of Jane and her charges. Perry should have either had Jane take advantage of the mutual mistrust among the families, or made it the central thread of a separate book. Instead, we bounce from the usual cross country hide-and-seek with a series of scenes involving Mafia guys arguing.

Perry's shows his strengths in his descriptions of settings, and of some of the characters - notably Bernie Lupus (I can't get over the name) and the young girl Jane is protecting. But, for the first time, he makes the bad guys seem dull.

Having produced so many great stories, I'll forgive him for this one and hope that he returns to his usual form.

A good summer read. Or read it on a plane. Buy the paperback.

Not great Perry, but pretty good.......2002-05-16

This is the last-- and least-- of the Jane Whitefield novels. Enjoyable, but it becomes repetitive. The four novels that preceded this one are better: 5 star reads. And even better are the early Perrys, if you can track them down: Butcher's Boy, Metzger's Dog, Big Fish, and Island. So, by all means read this one, but don't start here: go to the front of the line.

Fun, Fun, Fun.......2002-04-08

Jane Whitefield returns in what may be her last adventure. I will be sorry to see her go but I can understand what the author wants to accomplish. In this latest adventure, Jane is retired from the guide business and just wants to be a happy housewife with her husband, Dr. Carey McKinnon. She is a one-woman witness protection program who knows how to hide people permanently and lead them to work new lives. She is `retired' but just like in the Godfather movies just as she gets out she gets dragged back in. In this case it involves Rita Shelford, a former hotel cleaning lady who is now running from the mob.

Bernie "The Elephant" Lupus has just died. He worked as a mob banker who does not use paper. He relies on his expansive photographic and eidetic memory to remember bank accounts and passwords. The mob is panicky because the only person Bernie ever trusted was Rita and they want to know what she knows and try to get some of their money back. After some false starts, Rita finds Jane and asks for her help. Unfortunately so does Bernie. News of his demise was greatly exaggerated.

Jane travels all over the country trying to hide Bernie and Rita. They also came up with the plan to take all of the mob's money and give everything away to charity. Once the mob finds out they will do whatever it takes to protect their interests. There is a lot of suspense and action in this story. You do not have to read previous novels to understand this one but I guarantee that once you read BLOOD MONEY you will try to find her other adventures. Thomas Perry's other novels are just as good and I suggest you give them a shot.

Run for the money.......2001-04-18

An unusual plot for the series, still engaging but feeling a little out of type. Jane is chased more than running this time. Perhaps this marks the author as being a little used up with this character. Is this why he introduces new protaganists in his most recent effort? Not up to the high standards of the earlier work.

Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.

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Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.
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Interesting and compelling analysis..........2006-11-18

The author opens with a detailed biography of Lyndon Johnson that removes the veneer of 'presidentiality' from Johnson and shows him as a greedy, fearful, mean man with an all-consuming need for power. McClellan then builds his case against Johnson by describing events earlier in Johnson's life in which foul acts were performed for a momentary advantage. Quite a bit of detail is provided about the stuffing of the ballot box which allowed Johnson to win his seat in the US Senate in 1948 and also about the murder of the USDA inspector, Henry Marshall, who was on the trail of fraud being perpetrated on the Department of Agriculture. The original investigation found that Marshall had committed suicide...with five bullets in his body delivered by a close Johnson associate, Mac Wallace. Another murder victim was Doug Kinser who was threatening to bring scandal to Johnson. Mac Wallace was then convicted of killing Kinser but, thanks to Johnson's power over the Texas legal system, was sentenced to 5 years in prison and given a suspended sentence.

It is Wallace that the author alleges was one of the trigger men in the sniper's nest along with Oswald. As proof, the author matches a fingerprint found on a box in the sniper's nest with one of Wallace's earlier fingerprints obtained for the Kinser murder to place Wallace on the 6th floor of the School Book Depository. The author provides a lot of other interesting information such as pointing out that it was Johnson who arranged for Kennedy to visit Texas on November 22, 1963 and that Johnson had given a copy of the Secret Service plans for protecting the president to the conspirators.

McClellan also claims that there was a third trigger man on the grassy knoll who he does not identify and he claims that the conspirators wore suits and used fake Secret Service badges to identify themselves to police and escape the scene after the shooting. There is some credibility to this as many of the shooting eye witnesses and police officers reported encountering secret service agents in Dealey Plaza after the shooting and yet the Warren Commission established that not a single secret service agent was present in Dealey Plaza other than those riding on vehicles. One of the weaker parts of the book is where McClellan claims that the entire conspiracy was the work of a crooked Johnson lawyer named Ed Clark. It seems much more likely that the conspiracy was large enough that the lawyer Clark was working closely with other a handful of rogue agents from the CIA and the secret service and that the final conspiracy was a 'team' effort.

This is an interesting book that fleshes out a lot of missing pieces of the assassination puzzle and makes some of the earlier stuff attributed to Johnson, such as his phone call to the Parkland Hospital ER seeking a dying confession from Oswald, much more believable.

After reading this book, you will never again look the same way at the famous photo of Johnson getting a wink from Congressman Albert Thomas on board Air Force One after being sworn in as the president following Kennedy's killing.

Blood, Money & Power.......2006-11-04

What a reveiling book on what goes on in our government that the American public is not aware of. It makes you look at politicans as power hungery, paid off people who have hood winked the public into thinking they are working in our behalf. The facts tell another story. Read to see just what your tax dollars are paying for.

How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K and Started the Texas Republican Party.......2006-10-18

If you struggle through the tumbleweed and rusted oil derricks in the first half of Barr's book, you will be rewarded with the most plausible answers to questions you have been asking for forty-three years. Whether you choose to believe, or not, there is no better answer and the proof is there when honest and unfearful authority is in place.

More importantly, reading between the lines, this telling and forthright unburdening by Barr exposes the birthing of the Texas Republican party. It is obvious from reading this book that the dirty business and politics that is Texas tradition, the oil-garchy and modus operandi that put LBJ in Washington, is the SOP of today's GOP. If you get nothing else from this book, you must recognize LBJ as the Godfather of today's Republican party.

VERY GOOD,BUT.........2006-09-10

Having researched the JFK assassination since GRADE SCHOOL, I have no doubt the conspiracy existed. The problem is getting to the common sense of it all. Three questions make it pretty clear that there was a plot: 1) Why were there secret service agents on the grassy knoll, when the secret service says none of their agents were there? 2)Why has the government, year by year, changed their position--first Warren Commission, then the panel on assassinations, now they release bits and pieces of "national security" documents. If the government actually felt there was no conspiracy, why does their story keep changing? 3) The newly released info about the aborted assassinations in Chicago and Florida. Now to Barr's book. Good info, but I hardly think THREE of his "men" could have pulled it off, and I don't believe JFK's "boy" Max was the grassy knoll shooter. The fingers are pointing in the wrong direction, but in pointing they're missing some of the truth. No the entire CIA and FBI didn't conspire to kill JFK, but you can bet your last dollar some elements of the government planned and executed this murder. WHo better to spearhead the plot than the vice president himself? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Conspiracy lite - 50% more believable.......2006-08-22

I'm not a JFK assassination conspiracy buff, and if anything I suspect that despite all the theories and inconsistencies, Oswald probably did the whole damn thing by himself. Still with conspiracy theories as thick on the ground as they are it makes sense to consider them. Conspiracies do happen, history has documented them since the days of Julius Cesaer and it would be nieve to assume 'they can't happen here'.

I haven't read much assassination literature but I have read the books by Jim Garrison and (the surprisingly good one from) Fletcher Prouty, and have seen the Oliver Stone movie. I can't say any of them convinced me.

Bar McClellan's account here is however the polar opposite of these "super-conspiracies" with their covert array of titanic forces, of the military industrial complex, and CIA, and the mafia and everyone else, arrayed against a heroic martyr president. What Barr McClellan delivers is really "conspiracy lite". Here the number of participants is reduced to the bare minimum and the old question "who benefits" is the link. And it points directly to LBJ. LBJ via his business partner and lawyer, Texas wheeler dealer Clark.

Johnson and Clark come together in the world of trading political favours for cash and campaign support. In this game it pays to have 'plausible deniability', thus the Johnson - Clark tag team. Together they could deliver favours, favourable rulings, government contracts and patronage in exchange for votes, cash and campaign contributions. And they operated their 'vertically integrated' business at all levels of Texas politics, including the courts. Any every advantage they obtained and delivered they could and would leverage to acquire and trade for more power at the next level of authority.

Barr McClellan editorialises on the horse trading dynamic duo as if this kind of thing is a deviation from true liberalism and democracy. Unfortunately it is the wheeler dealer engine at the heart of real world democracy that binds the coalitions that rule. If anything this goes double for liberal or reformist coalitions seeking to expand the public sector in the name of social reform. Recent studies by 'public choice' economists, for example, recent work by Jim F. Couch and William F. Shughart, shows just how much New Deal revenues were expended on vote buying in marginal electorates.

Where in the super-conspiracies fundamental and existential questions emerge about American democracy and the black heart of the conspirators' motives, here the drive is more human. The horrid crimes emerge purely to cover up an mounting pyramid of other smaller corruptions and crimes. It's like the old story of the pea under the mattress, with extra mattresses only making the bed more and more uncomfortable.

In McClellan's account the original pea is Billy Sol Estes' exploitation of cotton quotas. As in the old morality plays one small sin leads to a larger one, and a larger one is needed to cover that. Estes purchased political protection from Clark who was retailing it from Johnson. But the pyramid grew and attracted attention neither Clark or Johnson could handle by the usual means, but by now Johnson was Vice President. So the Department of Agriculture investigator can't be bribed, or stopped. So he is threatened and, perhaps not by design, ultimately murdered. The killer, Clark's "muscle", shoots the victim five times with a bolt action rifle and the crime is fixed up as an improbable 'suicide'. But even that couldn't keep the lid on the pot.

The conspirators come to believe that only way they can get away with it is by eliminating JFK in Texas where the crime would be tried in jurisdictions they can control. At each step a larger crime is committed to cover a smaller one.

Scenarios of this type seems more probable and plausible to me than the 'superconspiracies'.

But plausibility and proof, especially proof beyond a reasonable doubt, are not the same thing. And unfortunately the proof provided here, although it does seem to lift the lid on "how dirty politics works", seems insufficient for the gravity of the charges in question. In all likelihood, even if it really happened the way McClellan says, proof will probably never be found. The trail is just too cold.

The strength of this book is the plausibility of it's overall scenario, the weakness is that the evidence is not conclusive... and a convulated writing style that indicates insufficient editing. From a reader's point of view, a few more drafts should have ended up in the trash before releasing the book. Of course when you are attempting to document an event like this readability may have a lesser priority to the author than assembling and displaying the evidence he has.

The discussion of LBJ's last years and his psychiatric treatment is interesting. It reminds me in a way of the old James Coburn movie, the classic political satire 'The President's Analyst'. The interpretation is that LBJ felt guilty. But even a pure innocent coming to power after the assassination of a popular predecessor could feel that way too. Lyndon, as we know from declassifed white house transcripts, had a conspiratorial view of the world that rivalled Nixons, for example, he say Bobby Kennedy's 'hidden hand' behind the civil rights movement. Maybe he had his own closely guarded suspicions, whether they were true or false is irrelevant, about who did it. And if he didn't share those concerns with the Warren Commission or the FBI, maybe he even felt guilt associated with that. Guilt relieved by his psychiatric treatment.

So after reading "Blood Money & Power" was I persuaded that LBJ was behind it all? Maybe he could have, but he probably didn't.

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Power, passion, oil money, murder--all the ingredients of a fast-paced, gripping mystery novel drive this true-crime story that on its original publication leapt onto best-seller lists nationwide. To that mix, add glamorous personalities, prominent Texas businessmen, gangland reprobates, and a whole parade of medical experts. At once a documentary account of events and a novelistic reconstruction of encounters among the cast of colorful characters, this anatomy of murder first chronicles the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death in 1969 of Joan Robinson--the pampered daughter of a Texas oil millionaire and the wife of plastic surgeon Dr. John Hill--then examines the bizarre consequences that followed it. For in 1972, having been charged by his father-in-law with Joan's death and having survived a mistrial, John Hill himself was killed, supposedly by a robber. So was the robber, by a cop, supposedly for resisting arrest. From the exclusive haunts of Houston's super-rich to the city's seamy underworld of prostitutes, pimps, and punks, author and investigative journalist Thomas Thompson tracks down all the leads and clues. And in a brutal tale of blood and money he uncovers some shocking and bitter truths.

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Incomplete presentation.......2007-06-09

If you read this review, it will reveal the end of the story as portrayed in the book. However, you will have a more accurate picture of the events with which the book deals. The book concludes with the conviction of Lilla Paulus as a participant in the murder of John Hill. The impression is also strongly conveyed that Ash Robinson paid to have Hill killed. However, the book fails to reveal the conviction of Paulus was reversed on appeal for insufficient evidence, and a judgment of acquittal was entered. Also, Ash Robinson, Paulus and others were unsuccessfully sued in a civil action for the wrongful death of Hill. The book spends a good bit of time discussing the legal requirement of evidence independently corroborative of accomplice testimony in a murder case; it was the lack of such corroboration that led to the acquittal of Paulus on appeal. However, there is no such requirement in a civil action. But in the civil action the jury found no conspiracy by Robinson, Paulus and others in the death of Hill; this judgment was affirmed on appeal. These decisions may be found in the opinions of the Texas appellate courts, which go into some detail of the records of the trials. While these decisions were handed down after the book was published, and therefore would not have been available to the author, nevertheless from the written opinion in the Paulus criminal appeal one can glean certain omissions in Thompson's account. For instance, Lilla Paulus' daughter gave damning testimony against her. Thompson fails to mention at all that Paulus' son contradicted his sister on certain key testimony. While the book is an engrossing read, one must question the overall accuracy and completeness of the story as portrayed therein in light of these omissions.

THE UPPER-CRUST SHOULD STICK TO THOSE OF THEIR ILK .......2007-05-21

"Hi" said Joan, summoning a show ring smile for Dr. John Hill, who rose like an obedient hound dog and pumped her hand enthusiastically. He was almost six feet tall, a well built man with broad shoulders, and thick black hair and a wide and guileless face. Joan decided that he was worth knowing. She made a discreet signal which Margaret Foster caught. The two friends went to the powder room."

When Joan Robinson, the daughter of a Texan millionaire saw John Hill, the plastic surgeon, she made up her mind from the start that she wanted him and saw him at the time as one who would be only to happy to marry into her well-heeled family. He was indeed happy to do so and did marry her.
It was not long before his colours started showing up and he became unbearably greedy, and controlling.
This was not a match made in heaven and when she fell ill and died, to all and sundry it appeared like a set up. However, Joan father Ash Robinson would stop at nothing, because he was more than sure that Joan had just not becone ill and died, but he was convinced that John Hill played a pivotal role in her death, and that she was murdered. He set to work hiring the best lawyers and sending them crazy with particular instructions, not necessary legal, for poor Ash was haunted day in and out by his daughter's death .
These 474 pages will keep you entertained, going to court, lots of appeals, and the exhumation of Joan's body. You will be shocked at the outcome of this true crime story. I recommend this for all true crime lovers.
Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 20/05/07)

Death in Texas.......2007-02-01

In 1969, in Houston, Texas, Joan Hill, socialite wife of wealthy plastic surgeon, Dr. John Hill, and daughter of well known Houston businessman, Ash Robinson, died in mysterious circumstances in a small Houston hospital. She had sickened just a day before but her husband, who was also her doctor, seemed strangely reluctant to give her any care or to seek help. She was diagnosed as being afflicted with a number of deadly organisms which appeared suddenly in her system. Ash Robinson is certain that his daughter was murdered by her husband but after his arrest and a trial, a mistrial was called and another due to commence in a few months. Then followed a series of amazing events, including a quick marriage and divorce by the doctor, followed by his murder by a supposed robber in front of his third wife. This whole book which is a true story, is something that even a novelist wouldn't hope to get away with but every event is factual and another example of how the rich ARE different. The book is very well written and an attention holder right to the end.

EVEN FOR HOUSTON THIS WAS SHOCKING.......2006-09-04

When i was a little boy, I snagged this book off my mother's bed stand and could not but it down, obviously it was not exactly what my mother would want me to read at ten, but it was just a fantastic read, and it happened in Houston, which for me made it totally fascinating. The story is so amazing you really cannot believe this really happened, but shockingly it did, the Hill mansion in River Oaks still sits on its corner, astride to Kirby Drive. This is a well written barn burner on a story that pleaded for this kind of treatment. Really, one of the best true crime books every written, highly recommended.

Tom Wolfe.......2006-08-13

From this opus, it is clear that the late Mr. Thomas Thompson was an "Old Southern Gentleman" in the worst sense of that phrase. At times, his archaic attitudes towards race and gender relations were enough to make this usually gentle reader of True Crime want to heave his hefty history of Houston's Hill murders across the Reading Room. For example: "The major cities of Texas traditionally rank in the upper echelons of the national crime statistics, partly due to the large populations of blacks and Mexican-Americans among whom such deeds are unhappily a way of life." Practitioners of the World's Oldest Profession fare little better. Thompson repeatedly refers to those principals who are either currently plying their trade or alumni thereof as "the whore" and "the prostitute" instead of by her name. OK. Enough already! The reader "gets" their occupation - now get on with the story!!

This tome (450 pages Original Hardcover, 474 paperback 2001 re-print) of a Texas-size tale is written in a decades-earlier-than-its-1976-publication stilted American English. It needs an index so that the reader can refresh memory when a character shows up again after an absence of hundreds of pages. It sorely suffers from the lack of photos in either version. The 2001 reprint *would* have been a good opportunity to add photos and updates.
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So, one is left to view the 1981 Made-for-TV Movie and forever think of Farrah as Joan, Andy as Ash, and Sam as John? Stay tuned ...
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PS: I have since watched the movie and read Ann Kurth's book upon which the movie is based. I am so confused! What did Joan Hill die of? Is John Hill dead or alive? Modern Technology and A&E TV's City Confidential need to get on this!

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Whether writing about famous athletes--human and equine--or weighing in on some of the most controversial events and personalities in sports, William Nack has few equals.

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Great Sportswriting.......2003-10-29

I've always enjoyed William Nack on ESPN's Sports Century programs, and I'd read some of these selections in Sports Illustrated. It's great to have a collection of such eloquent sportswriting. The characters he writes about come to life. Even non sports fans would enjoy the features on Secretariat, Bobby Fishcher, and Bob Kalzu. In a nutshell, this is a treasure. Next how about a book of Gary Smith's SI stories?

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!.......2003-06-10

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There's More to Sports than Sports.......2003-02-28

Bill Nack reports the "back stories" of human and equine athletes better than anyone around and this collection of some of his best work kept me turning the pages for more. From Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston to Secretariat, interesting and important figures from the world of sports are shown as human (or animal) beings, not simply athletic commodities. Nack's writing is elegant without being flowery, and often ironic. This book is a terrific read. The best quote in the collection is attributed to Liston and the meanest person was Rocky Marciano.

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