In the winter of 1967, the official account of the Kennedy assassination was beginning to unravel. A scattered group of Americans had pointed to major problems with the report prepared by President Johnson’s handpicked Warren Commission. Many of the most serious criticisms of the government’s work came from a source that surprised some: women who, within the community of critics, outnumbered the men two to one.
Sometimes too detailed...but Tiffany is a sure-footed guide through the labyrinth of Dealey Plaza. I’m never inspired; this book inspired me. It touched my soft spot for amateur sleuths, obsessive page-turning, and the outer limits of facticity. The Warrenologists have much to teach us.
A social history of novelistic propulsion with fanatical documentation and a sympathetic understanding of what drives the driven ... Tiffany doesn’t try to oversell the underground’s achievement — they made mistakes, sometimes were led astray, squabbled with one another — but she ultimately salutes the democratic energy that sustained them through the years.
Tiffany conducted meticulous, wide-ranging research to construct an engrossing portrait of a ragtag group of citizen sleuths whose zeal and dedication transformed them into a to-be-reckoned-with force for truth and accountability.
