Jim Garrison: His Life and Times, The Early Years
Jim Garrison was a giant with a bigger-than-life personality. He had a towering physical presence, a brilliant and curious mind, an unmatched eloquence, a sardonic sense of humor, and most important, the courage to seek and speak the truth, no matter the consequences. Over the years the CIA, through an orchestrated campaign, has tried to discredit his important contribution to finding the truth about the JFK assassination and to destroy his personal reputation with smears and disinformation. In Joan Mellen's exhaustively researched and vividly written biography, the real Jim Garrison rises from the dead and practically leaps from the page onto the colorful streets of corrupt, decadent New Orleans of the 1950s and 1960s. For anyone who wants to know who Jim Garrison really was and where he found the strength to challenge the Warren Commission, the CIA, and anyone else standing in the way of truth, this book is essential reading. --Zachary Sklar Co-screenwriter of JFK Editor of On the Trail of the AssassinsHaving known Jim Garrison well during his years as a district attorney, I found this book difficult to put down. It's an exciting and accurate description of the events in the political world of New Orleans during Garrison's tenure in office. --Judge Louis P. Trent