Author: DIEUGENIO, JAMES
Title: Reclaiming Parkland: Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassina
Description: NY, Skyhorse Pub Co Inc. 2013, 1st. (ISBN: 9781626365339). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Skyhorse, 2013, first printing. 8vo. xxviii+452pp. "Reclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman cofounder of the production company Playtone to make Vincent Bugliosi’s mammoth book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. It exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played the role of an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder, and how this formed the basis for the epic tome. Author James DiEugenio details the myriad problems with Bugliosi’s book, and explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing these many faults during the publicity campaign for the book and how this lack of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman to purchase the film rights. DiEugenio then shows how the film eventually adapted from that book, entitled Parkland, does not even resemble Reclaiming History, though the script for that film displays the same imbalance that Reclaiming History does." Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

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