• Rethinking Camelot

  • JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture
  • By: Noam Chomsky
  • Narrated by: Brian Jones
  • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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Rethinking Camelot

By: Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Brian Jones
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Noam Chomsky dismisses efforts to resurrect Camelot - an attractive American myth portraying JFK as a shining knight promising peace, foiled only by assassins bent on stopping this lone hero from withdrawing from Vietnam. Chomsky argues that US institutions and political culture, not individual presidents, are the key to understanding US behavior during the Vietnam War.

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Great work.

Chomsky effortlessly and succinctly dismantles the liberal mythology constructed by "serious" intellectuals and credulous West Wing viewers and identifies 1992 as the high water mark for Kennedy hagiography, the after effects of which still contaminate the discourse, even among lefties who should absolutely know better. Good stuff as usual.

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