Peter Dale Scott: 9 books
Oswald, Mexico, and Deep Politics
Revelations from CIA Records on the Assassination of JFK
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
An explosive investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in the days leading up to President Kennedy’s murder.
Peter Dale Scott has written extensively on the Kennedy assassination and other dark corners of the American political scene. His encyclopedic knowledge enables him to connect...
Drugs, Oil, and War
The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central...
The War Conspiracy
JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
“A provocative ‘alternative’ history now pushing its way into the mainstream as a result of several events, including America’s wars in Vietnam and Iraq” (Howard Jones, author of Death of a Generation).
Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by...
Dallas '63
The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
“Our most provocative scholar of American power**” reveals the forces behind the assassination of JFK—and their continuing influence over our world (David Talbot, Salon)****.**
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Shortly after,...
The Road to 9/11
Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the...
American War Machine
Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America's...
by Peter Dale Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1989
"Not since Robert Duncan's Ground Work and before that William Carlos Williams' Paterson has New Directions published a long poem as important as Coming to Jakarta!" —James Laughlin
A devastating revelation of violence, exploitation, and corrupt politics, Coming to Jakarta derives...
The American Deep State
Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing America’s increasing...
Poetry and Terror
Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
A study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author’s initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller...