UK readers should note that remaindered around September was a big collection of essays (500 plus pages) by the American writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a parapolitical researcher and on some things he’s probably wrong, when it comes down to it. But he’s a really good writer and, even when on thin ice, his essays illuminate as well as entertaining. My copy cost all of £1.99. A better two quid’s worth is not to be had. (1)
- This should not to be confused with the much smaller American Penguin by Rosenbaum with the same title.