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Summary: I'm not sure how much of this is true, but...
Review: This book reads like a thriller, and portrays a poigant picture of 1940s "Bubba justice" Texas. It describes how the Mob, the KKK, lynchings, and a blonde "sex circle" form Johnsons political education. After browsing through the book when I first bought it, I ended up reading the whole thing over a weekend. True to life or not, this book is certainly not boaring!
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Summary: Stunning insight from a true "insider" to the case
Review: Kudos to Barr McClellan for walking the line of 'attorney-client privilege' in this revealing description of one of history's most nefarious plots. McClellan's first hand knowledge of the assassination details provides an insight previously unavailable for objective review, even though he was still handicapped from telling all that he knows due to his self-imposed requirement to obtain independent corroboration for all of his evidence. As this story opens and receives the wide acceptance it deserves, McClellan is likely to be hailed as a heroic figure for risking his professional stature to reveal a horrible injustice. Assuredly, many do not want this story told, and can be identified by their efforts to discredit the book or McClellan. But the American public is smarter than these media puppets... and any rational person reading McClellan's book will accept the abundant evidence of L.B.J.'s involvement in the Kennedy assassination. It's not a truth that many wish were true. But McClellan's unique "insider" perspective is the light that this dark incident has needed for these past forty years. 'Blood, Money & Power' is a historically significant work, and one of the year's best.
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Summary: Overdue information from a Johnson insider
Review: This is a superbly written and researched secret history by a Johnson Administration insider who had the courage to take the risk of violating attorney client priveledge to give us the truth about Johnson. Take note, where Caro and Dallek fail, McClellan has the real inside information on quite a number of issues.
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Summary: I always knew Johnson did it!!
Review: This is a fast paced and very readable book. Although a lot of the evidence must be taken with a grain of salt, and the conclusions are speclative, this is one of the few books where the author was on the inside of the Johnson gang. Much of this book also deals with how Johnson moved up through the ranks, and what the texas party 'machine' was capable of.
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Summary: Wow, an excellent book conecting the dots.
Review: The book brings together the loose ends behind the JFK tragedy.
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Summary: Fascinating - yes; factual - dunno
Review: This book was a page-turner and very hard to put down. A good half or more was really an LBJ biography that offered new information not found in similar works I have read. This bio provided some very unflattering data on LBJ that - unfortunately - I really feel is more-or-less accurate. As far as the assertions that LBJ and Edward Clark had JFK assassinated, well that evidence is inconclusive. The assertions that LBJ (and Clark) committed some despicable acts are very arguable, but to advance beyond the other garden-variety conspiracy theories of Kennedy's assassination, the author needs to formulate a better case. The author readily admitted to the use of "faction" in this last chapter or so, but I feel he used that technique well before then. He includes almost 100 pages of photocopied evidence in the book's appendix, but while it may legitimately show LBJ as a dishonest, power-hungry, and pathological man, it falls far short of implicating him in JFK's assassination. For McClellan to have presented this book as an unflattering LBJ bio and suggested possible involvement in the assassination is one thing, but for him to offer this as definitive proof, "Blood..." fails. For a look at the seamier side of LBJ, and the indictment of legal abuse of the state judicial system, it's a good read.
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Summary: For All Americans--Thank You--a Wonderful Book
Review: Blood, Money & Power tells of a tortured path to power of LBJ, a man whom nothing--not cheating, not stealing, not murder--was apparently beyond his pernicious self. The author, an insider, must be commended for bringing forth the loose ends and tying them together. The conspiracy theorists may be disappointed that the answer was so simple and that so many rabbit trails were followed.
The chronological events in this book are extremely damaging to LBJ, who at times did not even appear to hide his arrogance and criminal activities.
But the fingerprint of LBJ's personal henchman, Mac Wallace, brings it all back to LBJ's doorstep.
We must not forget such evil, and we must all be vigilant to prevent such from ever happening again.
Please read this book--and don't ever forsake the truth.
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Summary: Disappointing, tough read
Review: Bought this book hoping to read something compelling and conclusive regarding Johnson's involvement or lack therof, in JFK's murder. The author weaves a tiresome and convoluted tale, based mainly on hearsay, speculation and a few cryptic papers.
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Summary: LBJ, BILLIE SOL ESTES, BOBBY BAKER, & JFK
Review: THE BOOK TIES TOGETHER NUMBEROUS LOOSE ENDS, THE BILLIE SOL ESTES SWINDEL, "THE ENRON OF THE 1960"s", HIS PARTNER WAS LBJ.
EVERY ACCOUNTANT STUDIED THIS CASE IN COLLEGE IN THE LATE 60'S AND 70'S, BILLIE SOL ESTES WENT TO PRISON AND LBJ BECAME PRESIDENT. THIS BOOK EXPLAINS IT CLEARLY. BILLIE SOL ESTES LBJ'S BUSINESS PARTNER,HE NOW LIVES IN FRANCE,IS TELLING THE SAME STORY. THE MARSHALL MURDER TRYING TO STOP THE BILLIE SOL ESTES INVESTAGATION IN TEXAS,A FEDERAL AGENT, OF WHICH IN 1987
LBJ IS NOW CHARGED WITH THE KILLING. A MUST READ BOOK.
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Summary: Republican propaganda?
Review: Barr McClellan, a lawyer for Texas oil companies and the father of George W. Bush's White House press secretary, strips the JFK assassination of any political motive and reduces it to the personal motives of one Democrat. LBJ, says McClellan, killed JFK because he was greedy for power and was afraid of having his corruption exposed. Period. There is no mention of JFK's decision to bring the troops home from Vietnam, "shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces," get rid of the oil depletion tax credit, or end segregation--all the reasons for which the far right wing despised him. That far right wing is now in power and openly asserts its hatred for "liberal senators from Massachusetts." I do believe Johnson played a role in the cover-up (though not necessarily in the assassination itself), but for political, not personal, motives. This book talks a lot about Texas oil men, yet never once mentions George H. W. Bush--how is that possible? Finally, McClellan says Oswald was one of the shooters, which any reputable assassination researcher knows is not true. Oswald could not have fired a rifle that day because he had no gunpower residue on his cheek when he was tested for it.
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