Booth & Oswald

About the Book

If Satan were to create two American boys, one living at the time of Huck Finn, in the South before the Civil War; the other living at the time of Holden Caulfield, even roaming the streets of New York City after World War II, there are no other candidates than John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald. Not typical of any other boys, products of the American education system, products of their dysfunctional families, products of a turbulent America, why would these boys would grow up to kill a President of the United States? For the first time a major work brings them together to examine their roots and their similarities. Now read about their twisted childhoods, their bizarre habits, hidden beneath the idyllic world of being American boys. The work traces their lives from pre-school to their apprenticeship years.

About the Author

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Dr. William Russo served with the U.S.Army and later worked as a free-lance writer for Hollywood tabloids. Nowadays, Russo is a professor at Curry College near Boston, Massachusetts. His previous books include Mal Tempo, Junior Bad Guys: Movie Delinquents of the 1950s, and Another Sunny Day.