Edward Jay Epstein

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Edward Jay Epstein (born December 6, 1935 in New York City ) is an American investigative journalist . At times he taught political science at Harvard in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , at UCLA in Los Angeles and at MIT in Cambridge. He became known for books about the murder of John F. Kennedy .

Life

Epstein received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Cornell University ; Vladimir Nabokov was one of his professors there . In 1973 Epstein received his Ph.D. from Harvard University .

Works

  • Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth (1966; also Master's thesis )
  • Counterplot (1968)
  • News from Nowhere. Television and the News (1973, also dissertation )
  • Between Fact and Fiction: The Problem of Journalism (1975)
  • Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America (1977)
  • Cartel (1978)
  • Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald (1978)
  • The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion (1982)
  • Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB & the CIA (1989)
  • The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend (1992)
  • Dossier: The Secret Life of Armand Hammer (1996)
  • The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood (2000)
  • The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies (2010)
  • Who Killed God's Bankers ? (2011)
  • James Jesus Angleton : Was He Right (2012)
  • The Annals of Unsolved Crime (2013)
  • The JFK Assassination Diary: My Search for Answers to the Mystery of the Century (2013)
  • How America Lost Its Secrets: Snowden , the Man and the Theft (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward J. Epstein . Karws. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ David Jackson: Follows Oswald's Track, Finds Lot of 'Maybes' (PDF) Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ bookhaven.stanford.edu
  4. ^ Edward Jay Epstein's Web Log . Ed Jay Epstein. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  5. ↑ Why President Obama can't pardon Edward Snowden . In: Newsweek , January 5, 2017. Retrieved January 11, 2017. 
  6. ↑ Charlie Savage: Was Snowden a Russian Agent? . Retrieved on February 6, 2017: "Epstein gets many facts about surveillance issues wrong, calling into question his competence to serve as a guide to thinking seriously about the Snowden saga. He gets dates wrong, calls an important technology by the wrong name, and inaccurately describes various programs and a presidential directive Snowden leaked. "
  7. ↑ Seth Rosenfeld criticizes: “ his conclusions about Snowden are largely speculative ” ( review on SFGate, January 20, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Epstein, Edward Jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American investigative journalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City