A major achievement, its stark excavation of the evil [Allen Dulles] represented surpassing Kai Bird's biography of John McCloy, writes Jim DiEugenio.

A well wrought, smaller piece of chamber music, telling the story of how part of the Vietnam nightmare was constructed and the efforts of those who did what they could to try and correct it, writes Jim DiEugenio.

In light of the recent developments in our understanding of JFK's foreign policy vision, Jim DiEugenio writes: "In sum, this is not a bad book. And I think some of its faults can be explained by Shaw’s association with the Wall Street Journal and the Hoover Institute.  But in my opinion it could have been much better".

by Michelle Nichols

At: Huffington Post

At: Real Clear Politics

What could have been an important and sterling volume is seriously compromised with a lot of litter. Instead of being up there with Rakove and Muehlenbeck, it stands a couple of steps downward, with Thurston Clarke’s mixed bag of nuts, concludes Jim DiEugenio.

At: teleSUR

Slideshows for three presentations on JFK's foreign policy given in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018.

Spy messages could finally solve mystery of UN chief’s death crash

by Jamie Doward, At: The Guardian

"A Motive For Murder: Kennedy's Foreign Policy" – audio interview with Alan Dale, at JFK Lancer.