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100 1 $aMailer, Norman.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79084818
245 10 $aOswald's tale :$ban American mystery /$cNorman Mailer.
250 $a1st trade ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a791 pages, xxxvii ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aIn this book, Norman Mailer asks the essential question about the assassination of JFK: not "Who killed Kennedy?" but "Who was Oswald?" for only by answering the latter question can we hope to answer the first. In 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union and was sent to Minsk, where he lived for two and a half years and remained under constant KGB surveillance, on suspicion of being a CIA agent.
520 8 $aIn 1993, Norman Mailer spent six months in Russia, where he interviewed Oswald's former friends and sweethearts and obtained exclusive interviews with the KGB officers assigned to monitor Oswald's every move. He was also given exclusive access to the KGB files on Oswald, including transcripts of conversations overheard in the apartment that Lee shared with his Russian wife, Marina.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aIn Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, Mailer reconstructs the life of this ambitious if doom-laden young man, giving a full account for the first time not only of the Minsk years, a hitherto uncharted period in Oswald's life, but also of Oswald's disastrous childhood, his years in the Marine Corps, and the events leading from his return to the United States in 1961 to his death in Dallas in 1963.
520 8 $aThe portrait of Oswald that emerges will greatly surprise readers who have thought of Oswald as a hapless loner: socially awkward, inarticulate, and an unremarkable loser.
600 10 $aOswald, Lee Harvey.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50049686
600 10 $aKennedy, John F.$q(John Fitzgerald),$d1917-1963$xAssassination.
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