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A moving and enlightening account of the famous film.
— Joyce Carol Oates, The Washington Post
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Riveting...offers up a complex and highly entertaining story of an assassination, a reel of film, and a Texas-based clan, which also draws in Dan Rather, Life magazine, Geraldo Rivera, the Warren Commission, a pile of money, and a whole lot more.
— The National Book Review
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The odyssey of America's most famous amateur footage is recounted with skill and sensitivity....Alexandra is a fine storyteller... the story never lags...Alexandra Zapruder has written a book which transcends the film and the tragedy in Dallas.
— Washington Independent Review of Books
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Riveting.
— The Dallas Morning News
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A fascinating and cautionary tale.
— Wall Street Journal
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Zapruder is a gifted writer and storyteller who delicately unravels a minor mystery few people know or care about, but that she makes human, complex and quite interesting.
— New York Times Book Review
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Making use of family and government archives, interviews, and her own memory, Alexandra offers a supple, tender portrait of a family lashed to history.
— Boston Globe
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A first-rate work of biography and history, addressing the film and the family in all their complexity and character...absorbing, deeply researched.
— USA Today
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Enlightening...an intelligent blend of memoir and cultural criticism that breaks fresh ground in the crowded field of JFK assassination studies.
— San Francisco Chronicle
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It is rare to find a book like TWENTY-SIX SECONDS that uncovers new informationa bout one of the most tragic events in American history...an intelligent examination of the changing media landscape, sudden notoriety, and its aftermath.
— Washington Times
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[A] well-written exploration of conspiracy, propriety, copyright, and public good versus private gain...reaffirming [the film's] position as a true relic, one of the few in a secular world.
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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An intriguing history of one of the most significant home movies ever recorded.
— Kirkus Reviews
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Exhaustively researched.
— Bookreporter
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Zapruder offers a unique perspective.
— New York Post
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A fascinating history.
— Men's Journal
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Connects the complex dots between [the author's] grandfather's chance footage of the attack (he was an amateur camera buff catching the president's motorcade) and the film's controversial and lasting impact on America's psyche, politics, culture, and laws-as well as the ways it strengthened and hurt the Zapruders over the next 50 years.
— Elle.com
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A wholly unique family memoir and a fascinating monograph about one of the most consequential artifacts in recorded history...So much has been written and said about the Kennedy assassination that a reader might wonder what is left to be said. In the pages of TWENTY-SIX SECONDS, Alexandra Zapruder says it.
— Jewish Journal
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Adds a fresh narrative to an old tragedy.
— People
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Zapruder evokes the tension and horror of the assassination. Scrupulous facts are woven into an intensely personal, sometimes painful, family history....TWENTY-SIX SECONDS is an important contribution to our understanding of history on a grand scale, and to the personal history of a private family reluctantly thrust into history's spotlight.
— Lone Star Literary Life