Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Review: Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel


Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel
Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel by Chauncey Holt

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Really an amazing tale of an underworld Zelig renaissance man that was every wear: So. American & Caribbean coups, CIA wars in Indochina, keeping the books for Meyer Lansky, standing by Oswald while he passed out Fair Play for Cuba flyers and, of course, behind the Grassy Knoll on that fateful day in Dallas. He also could do anything: creative accounting with the best of them, military aviation, expert marksmanship, portraiture, document forgery, and more. Is it all true? I don't know, but it is a fascinating read full of facts on crime and cop figures that could be verified with lots of photos and documents and appendices with two lengthy interviews and more that purport to support his role as an unwilling bit player in an American coup by scorned Mafia-CIA-AntiCastro forces that all had it in for Kennedy.

I'll be doing an interview on my program this Sunday related to this book and the interview transcripts.



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