{"product_id":"marina-and-lee-paperback-by-priscilla-johnson-mcmillan","title":"Marina and Lee Paperback by Priscilla Johnson McMillan","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eSteerforth\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2013-08-06)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e688\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781586422165\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e725.76\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9.14 x 5.93 x 1.88\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The single best book ever written on the Kennedy assassination” -- Thomas Mallon, author of \u003ci\u003eMrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“It is not at all easy to describe the power of \u003ci\u003eMarina and Lee\u003c\/i\u003e . . . It is far better than any other book about Kennedy . . . Other books about the Kennedy assassination are all smoke and no fire. \u003ci\u003eMarina and Lee\u003c\/i\u003e burns.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarina and Lee\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable account of one of America’s most traumatic events and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous—at times even moment by moment—account of Oswald’s progress toward the assassination of JFK, Priscilla Johnson McMillan takes us inside Oswald’s fevered mind and his manic marriage. Only a few weeks after the birth of their second child, Oswald’s wife, Marina, hears of Kennedy’s death and discovers that Lee's rifle is missing from the garage where it was stored. She knows that her husband has killed the President.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s, she worked for Kennedy and had known him well for a time. Later, working in Moscow as a journalist, she interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald during his attempt to defect to the Soviet Union. When she heard his name again on November 22, 1963, she said, “My God! I know that boy!”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarina and Lee\u003c\/i\u003e was written with the complete and exclusive cooperation of Oswald’s Russian-born wife, Marina Prusakova, whom McMillan debriefed for seven months in the immediate aftermath of the President’s assassination and her husband’s nationally televised execution at the hands of Jack Ruby. The truth is far more compelling, and unsettling, than the most imaginative conspiracy theory. \u003ci\u003eMarina and Lee\u003c\/i\u003e is a human drama that is outrageous, heartbreaking, tragic, fascinating—and real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePriscilla Johnson McMillan\u003c\/b\u003e graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 and received a master's degree in Russian Studies from Harvard-Radcliffe. In 1953 she went to work for Senator John F. Kennedy. In late 1959, she was working as a reporter in Moscow when she interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald, who was trying to defect to the Soviet Union. In the years after JFK's assassination, she befriended Marina Oswald and spent many months at her side, conducting hundreds of hours of interviews, in order to gather the primary source material that would become the foundation for her magisterial book. She would spend another 13 years researching and writing before first publishing \u003ci\u003eMarina and Lee\u003c\/i\u003e in 1977. She received a MacArthur grant in research and writing for work on her next book, \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race \u003c\/i\u003e(Viking, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45350812844193,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781586422165","price":48.56,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781586422165.jpg?v=1762938560","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/marina-and-lee-paperback-by-priscilla-johnson-mcmillan","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}