Coup D'etat: The Overthrow of an American President

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Anaphora Literary Press, 2014 - History - 126 pages
Coup d'Etat: The Overthrow of an American President: is dedicated to all those who believe the real truth behind the JFK assassination has been ignored, or worse, covered up. This project is my attempt to answer three basic questions: Why was President Kennedy assassinated? Who benefitted? And who had the power to cover it up? Coup d'Etat makes the case that President John F. Kennedy was killed by four powerful forces with interlocking interests, all of which were being blocked by the President and his policies. The money and accompanying intensity behind these interests united shadowy conspirators in a complicated plot to decapitate Camelot and use a diversion to cover it up afterwards. It was a hostile takeover, a "putsch." In effect, it was the second American "revolution," the result being a violent overthrow of a duly-elected, legitimate government. It was a Coup d'Etat."

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About the author (2014)

Barry Jones has been a high school history teacher and basketball coach in Tennessee for the past fifteen years. Teaching mostly seniors, each year, the author has concluded the academic calendar with a three-week unit on the JFK assassination. Jones' conclusions have been based on the research he has conducted on a yearly basis to prepare for this particular unit. He also wrote the autobiography, Flagrant Foul (2008), a collection of non-fiction short stories about the importance of honor in sports and a fiction novel, Letters to Toby (2012). Dr. Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. Faktorovich has over three years of full-time college English teaching experience. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism and an M.A. in Comparative Literature. Her Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson critical book has been published with McFarland in February, 2013. Her new book, The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels, is completed and will be released with McFarland in October, 2014. Two additional critical books are forthcoming with Anaphora: Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity and Wendell Berry's New Agrarianism and Beyond; for the latter she received a Kentucky Historical Society fellowship. She published two poetry collections Improvisational Arguments (Fomite Press, 2011) and Battle for Athens (Anaphora, 2012). The first novel in her Anaphora historical novels series is forthcoming 9/12/2014, The Romances of George Sand; the second novel in this series is nearing completion, The Battle for Democracy. She published two fantasy novellas with Grim's Labyrinth Publishing: The Great Love of Queen Margaret, the Vampire and The Campaigns against the Olden. She illustrated, designed and wrote the poetry for an illustrated children's book, The Sloths and I (Anaphora, 2013). She also published three editions of the Book Production Guide, which gives advice on editing, design and marketing for writers and publishers. She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual and peer-reviewed Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009; it is available on EBSCO, ProQuest and in print. She has presented her research at the MLA, SAMLA, EAPSU, SWWC, BWWC and many other conferences. She won the MLA Bibliography and Brown University Military Collection fellowships.

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