![]() ![]() ![]() perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.” - The New York Times Book Review Rethinking Camelot is “an interesting work not only for the history it explores, but also as a study of how various individuals and groups write and interpret history” ( Choice). ![]() Chomsky argues that US institutions and political culture, not individual presidents, are the key to understanding US behavior during Vietnam. In it, Chomsky dismisses efforts to resurrect Camelot-an attractive American myth portraying JFK as a shining knight promising peace, foiled only by assassins bent on stopping this lone hero who would have unilaterally withdrawn from Vietnam had he lived. Rethinking Camelot is a thorough analysis of John F. Kennedy’s role in the US invasion of Vietnam and a probing reflection on the elite political culture that allowed and encouraged the Cold War. strong arguments against Kennedy mythologists” ( Publishers Weekly). The famed political critic “analyzes the issue most prominently posed in Oliver Stone’s film JFK . . . ![]()
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