Wearisome Familiarity
Summary
John F Kennedy, the greatest "martyr" in a decade of "martyrs", was forever plotting the assassination of other heads of state, among them Sukarno, the method of whose overthrow, orchestrated by the unsuccessfully invisible CIA, was "a model for future operations" in Chile, Angola, Uzbekistan, Nicaragua, Lebanon, and so on.
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Wearisome Familiarity
Wearisome familiarity Jonathan Meades The Sixties Unplugged: a Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade Gerard DeGroot Macmillan, 528pp, £20
Gerard DeGroot was born in 1955, which was too late. So when a tiny, clamorous minority of often very stupid young adults was ele...See the full content of this document
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