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JFK: The Book of the Film

A book version of the screenplay of the Oliver Stone film. The book is complete with historical annotation, with 340 research notes and 97 reactions and commentaries by Norman Mailer, Tom Wicker, Gerald R. Ford, and many others.

Subject
historypolitics
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 624 pages

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