Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK Audiobook

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• “Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis’ Dallas 1963 is a brilliantly written, haunting eulogy to John F. Kennedy. By exposing the hatred aimed at our thirty-fifth president, the authors demonstrate that America—not just Lee Harvey Oswald—was ultimately responsible for his death. Every page is an eye-opener. Highly recommended!”

  — Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Cronkite

• “All the great personalities of Dallas during the assassination come alive in this superb rendering of a city on a roller coaster into disaster. History has been waiting fifty years for this book.”

  — Lawrence Wright, New York Times bestselling author of The Looming Tower and Going Clear

• “The authors skillfully marry a narrative of the lead-up to the fateful day with portrayals of the Dixiecrats, homophobes, John Birchers, hate-radio spielers, and the ‘superpatriots’ who were symptomatic of the paranoid tendency in American politics.”

  — Harold Evans, New York Times bestselling author of The American Century

• “In this harrowing, masterfully paced depiction of a disaster waiting to happen, Minutaglio and Davis examine a prominent American city in its now-infamous moment of temporary insanity. Because those days of partisan derangement look all too familiar today, Dallas 1963 isn’t just a gripping narrative—it’s also a somber cautionary tale.”

  — Robert Draper, New York Times bestselling author of Do Not Ask What Good We Do

• “In Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis’ electric, frightening urban political history Dallas 1963, the authors don’t need to draw parallels between the conservative panic that erupted during John F. Kennedy’s presidency and the fears currently inflaming the far right wing. It's all right there on the page…In clipped but striking prose, the book lays out a rogue's gallery of southern gothics twisted with the gnawing terror that their (white, Protestant, xenophobic) America was being torn away from them…What this book strongly suggests is that while words can’t kill, they can certainly help to pull the trigger.”

  — Barnes&Noble.com, editorial review

• “This engrossing narrative vividly captures the tensions in the Kennedy-Dallas crucible from 1960 until the president’s death and will grip readers interested in the roots of Kennedy’s political challenges and his assassination.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “In a chronological, episodic narrative…Minutaglio and Davis unearth the various fringe elements rampant in Dallas in the three years (from January 1960 to November 1963) preceding John F. Kennedy’s assassination…The authors make a compelling, tacit parallel to today’s running threats by extremist groups.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Minutaglio and Davis capture in fascinating detail the creepiness that shamed Dallas in 1963.”

  — Gary Cartwright, author and contributing editor at Texas Monthly