02-11-2016, 03:06 AM
Mr. Locke:
Obviously, you have never read Gibson's books. Therefore you are trying to make a comparison in at least a half blind manner.
If you read Domhoff, or Mills, the thing that will strike most of us quickest is that they do not separate out Kennedy from the eastern establishment. In fact, Domhoff actually includes him as part of that paradigm. This is why, after having read those books, Don decided to write his book. Because he knew just how wrong they were.
So Don used his book, beginning brilliantly with the steel crisis, to show why and how Kennedy acted, and who he was acting against. That opening chapter is, for me, the single best analysis of that slighted event. And it shows beautifully how all the major directors of the steel companies were interrelated and close to the Rockefellers and Morgans. And he shows that this was not really about steel prices. It was an early face off between two views of the economy: Kennedy's and the Power Elite's.
As per the comment about the "model", Don did not need to work through a model like Evica. He was firmly of the conviction right from the start that the Power Elite had killed Kennedy. It was Evica who worked through all of these Scottian stages, as shown above, until he finally realized he was wandering around without a Big Picture.
If you don't like the answer to your question, don't blame the messenger.
Obviously, you have never read Gibson's books. Therefore you are trying to make a comparison in at least a half blind manner.
If you read Domhoff, or Mills, the thing that will strike most of us quickest is that they do not separate out Kennedy from the eastern establishment. In fact, Domhoff actually includes him as part of that paradigm. This is why, after having read those books, Don decided to write his book. Because he knew just how wrong they were.
So Don used his book, beginning brilliantly with the steel crisis, to show why and how Kennedy acted, and who he was acting against. That opening chapter is, for me, the single best analysis of that slighted event. And it shows beautifully how all the major directors of the steel companies were interrelated and close to the Rockefellers and Morgans. And he shows that this was not really about steel prices. It was an early face off between two views of the economy: Kennedy's and the Power Elite's.
As per the comment about the "model", Don did not need to work through a model like Evica. He was firmly of the conviction right from the start that the Power Elite had killed Kennedy. It was Evica who worked through all of these Scottian stages, as shown above, until he finally realized he was wandering around without a Big Picture.
If you don't like the answer to your question, don't blame the messenger.