Kennedy John Fitzgerald - Four days in November: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

What Bugliosi has done is a public service. This book should be applauded. A delight to read. Reclaiming History , though, is more than a critical analysis [of the Kennedy assassination]. Bugliosi knows how to construct a narrative and his 316-page retelling of those four days in November, a book in itself, is as good a second-by-second reconstruction of the assassination and its aftermath as I have ever read.[ Reclaiming History ] is the literary equivalent of World War I, a kind of trench warfare for the mind.

New York Times Book Review

This is quite simply a book that will be read for centuries.

Scott Turow, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Presumed Innocent

Vincent T. Bugliosi in Reclaiming History clearly has written the definitive book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Reclaiming History is a voluminous book, encyclopedic in scope, capacious enough not only to include a thorough explanation of the factsof the JFK assassination, but also to expose the faults and debunk the arguments of the conspiracy community. From the date of its publicationthis stupendous volume became the seminal work for future JFK assassination studies and essays. It is a must-acquisition for all major libraries, a must-read for all students of the JFK assassination, and a must-cite for future authors and scholars.

The International Criminal Justice Review

At last, someone has done it, put all the pieces together. Reclaiming History is important not just because its correct, though it is. Its significant not just because it is comprehensivesurely, no one will deny that. It is essential, first and foremost, because it is conclusive. From this point forward, no reasonable person can argue that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent. No sane person can take seriously assertions that Kennedy was killed by the CIA, Fidel Castro, the Soviets, [etc.] Reclaiming History may finally move these accusations beyond civilized debate. No serious scholar of the presidents assassination will ever write again on the subject without citing Bugliosi. Bugliosi is an American master of common sense, a punishing advocate and a curmudgeonly refreshing voice of reason. With this work, Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America. It is a book for the ages.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

[Bugliosi has] made a pretty airtight case. [There is] the sense that Bugliosis [book] is the final word.

Los Angeles Times

Reclaiming History is by far the most accurate and detailed nongovernmental account [of] the assassination. Bugliosis epic book is of great historical significance and shouldbut probably will notbe the final account of the facts surrounding the assassination. Not only is the book monumental in scope, it is well-written. Ifound the account engrossing. It is hard to believe that a work of this length on a well-plowed subject could still be a page-turner.

Richard Mosk, member of the Warren Commission staff, in the Los Angeles Daily Law Journal

Reclaiming History presents a stronger case against Lee Harvey Oswald than the Warren Commission Report and a much more compelling one that Oswald acted alone with no conspiracy behind the assassination.

Robert K. Tanenbaum, Deputy Chief Counsel, United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations

This encyclopedic work is a bargain. Mr. Bugliosis verve for setting the record straight is unequaled and will probably never be surpassed. Unlike any other book on the assassination ever produced by a single author, Reclaiming History [should] probably be shelved alongside the two massive federal investigations of the assassination. Bugliosis version is one of the best narrative treatments of the four days from assassination to funeral.

Wall Street Journal

Absent a trial proving [Oswalds] guilt, Bugliosi has offered the next best thing: a prosecutors air-tight brief that leaves no reasonable doubt. If you read, or even read around in this book and still come to the conclusion that Oswald was part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, you are likely to believe that black helicopters have been sent by the feds to enforce the Endangered Species Act. Bugliosi is right that this case is, and ought to be, closed.

Washington Post

The most exhaustive book yet written about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History is a magnificentachievement. [Bugliosi] exhilarates the reader with rat-a-tat annihilations of others false premises and shaky inferences. [ Reclaiming History ] will be a kind of eternal flame. There is no question that Bugliosi succeeds in scorching the conspiracy theory terrain with ferocious, even definitive, plausibility.

The Atlantic

Reclaiming History is Proustian in its conception, scope and design. Bugliosis book, which denies all conspiracies, has the ring of truthscrupulous, irrefutable truthand I predict will be the line that historians a hundred years from now will take on this story. If any one book can make you believe the assassination was performed by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alonethis is that book. Few books are as gripping in their narrative, or as telling in their fine detail. This is a book that will make you weep. Powerfully, Reclaiming History evokes the confusion and awful fatefulness, a feeling of the world ripped asunder, that gripped millions at the time.

Philadelphia Inquirer

[Bugliosi is] a prosecutor on a mission, armed with both the sense of moral outrage that wins over juries and the dispassionate ability to keep millions of details straight. Point by point, fact by fact, Bugliosi demolishes his opponents arguments. And yet, even with this incredible detail, the story as well as its teller are compelling. Bugliosi is the Ancient Mariner of the Kennedy assassination.

Legal Times (Washington, D.C.)

With indignation crackling on every pageBugliosi aims to redress, once and for all, what he sees as an outrageous imbalance between the books that deal with the assassination responsibly and those that do not. [Bugliosis] richly textured book is as engrossing as it is convincing.

Boston Globe

What Bugliosi has done is reframe the narrative in such a compelling manner, in such an original writing voice, that he essentially shuts the conspiracy theorists down cold. Reclaiming History is the unrushed version of the Warren Commission Report, with all the wrinkles ironed out. Bugliosi lays [the Kennedy assassination] out on a legal pad, pros and cons, discrepancies and all, and comes up with what amounts to an airtight prosecution brief.

The Oregonian

Such a tome would seem to be for conspiracy geeks only, were it not written by Vincent Bugliosi, who knows how to construct airtight paragraphs as well as cases. Bugliosi is a very convincing man.

San Diego Tribune

Reclaiming History sets the record straight forever and always. [Bugliosi] takes apart every single [conspiracy] theory ever perpetrated.

New York Post

Bugliosi argues persuasively. Theres a reward in Reclaiming History for anyone with a passing interest in the topic, and anyone with a yen [for] seeing familiar arguments cross-examined and taken to their logical conclusions by a relentless, take-no-prisoners prosecutor. A truly massive case against both the basic notion that JFK was done in by a conspiracy, and virtually every major conspiracy theory individually.

San Antonio Express News

Compulsively readablean essential buy for all large public libraries.

Library Journal

[A] monumental critique. Bugliosis best-selling cachet gains him the audience, his direct, energetic prose keeps it, and his journey through the evidence might sway it. [Bugliosis] study will provoke controversy and debate.

Booklist

Bugliosi whacks the wacky conspiracy theorists and demolishes the arguments of serious writers who have sought to prove that there had to be a conspiracy.