Joan Mellen: 4 books
A Farewell to Justice
Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case that Should Have Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This new look at the culprits in the assassination of JFK “brings an astonishing amount of information to light” (Publishers Weekly).
Former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison remains the only person ever to have indicted a suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy....
The Great Game in Cuba
CIA and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Joan Mellen tells a brilliantly researched, meticulously supported, and compulsively readable tale that everyone concerned with how America operates should know.” -Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
This completely revised and newly updated...
Faustian Bargains
Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace crossed paths only briefly; but Wallace's life, especially one violent episode and its intricate aftermath, illuminates the dark side of our 36th president.
Perhaps no president has a more ambiguous reputation than LBJ. A brilliant tactician, he maneuvered colleagues...
by Joan Mellen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Delving into the complex and intertwined world of the CIA, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this book takes on the angle of those who knew and associated with Kennedy’s alleged assassin. Profiling George de Mohrenschildt, a petroleum geologist based in Dallas...