Jack Ruby: The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Kennedy - Couverture souple

Wills, Garry; Demaris, Ovid

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 4871873250 ISBN 13 : 9784871873253

Editeur : Ishi Press, 2011

Synopsis

"You all know me, I'm Jack Ruby.” That's what the killer shouted when police grabbed him a split second after he had pumped a bullet into the stomach of Lee Oswald. Who was Jack Ruby? Madman? Superpatriot? Conspirator? Two top writers achieve a gripping portrait of the complex and contradictory character of Jack Ruby - a man who grew up in an immigrant home with a drunken father and an insane mother, who climbed out of the ghetto to become the owner of a popular Dallas nightclub. The authors let his friends and employees describe the Jack Ruby they knew. He was a punch-happy scrapper who fought before he thought because "I might lose my nerve." Ruby could "cuss straight on like saying his prayers" but didn't allow dirty talk in front of his lady strippers. He could fire an employee seventeen times and pay for her kid's operation. A bachelor, he "respected" his fiancée of twelve years too much to marry her. He sought the company of cops, newsmen, anyone he thought important. Jack Ruby had many acquaintances but his only real friends were his dogs. Living in the fringe-society of hucksters and hustlers, Jack Ruby longed to be a big man in Dallas. Until the day he died he had a childlike awe of "class," respectability, and the law. Wills and Demaris get completely inside the mind of this complex man. They recreate the day Jack Ruby woke, got an SOS call from one of his girls, shaved, dressed, said good-bye to his dogs, drove downtown, parked his car illegally, walked over to the crowd and shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. The reader understands. He did it "for Jackie and the kids" and because he was Jack Ruby.

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À propos de l'auteur

Garry Wills, born in 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia, was trained as a classicist, receiving his Ph.D. From Yale, and taught ancient Greek at the Johns Hopkins University for five years before becoming a free-lance writer and a contributing editor of Esquire magazine. He is the author of Chesterton, Politics and Catholic Freedom, and Roman Culture. Ovid Demaris born in Biddeford, Maine, received an A.B. from the College of Idaho and an M.S. in journalism from Boston University. He was a reporter with the Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Boston Daily Record before joining the United Press, and later became Ad Copy Chief of the Los Angeles Times. For the past years he has been a free-lance writer. Mr. Demaris is the author of sixteen paperback originals, which have been translated and published in eighteen countries, and the bestseller The Green Felt Jungle (with Ed Reid).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ishi Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 4871873250
• ISBN 13: 9784871873253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
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• Personne responsable: non disponible