With no support from major media, Jack Cashill’s tough but sympathetic look at the life and death of Ron Brown – “Ron Brown’s Body: How One Man’s Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary’s Future” – has reached the No. 5 spot on BestBlackBook.com’s top 100, the definitive best-seller list for black-themed books.
Cashill’s new book will be featured on C-Span 2’s Book TV Sunday at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
He says “credit goes to Book TV for airing a subject that has, so far at least, scared away the networks.”
Cashill’s presentation on the new release by WND Books, he said, “drew a crowd of about 200 and evoked a standing ovation, but rattled more than a few in the bipartisan audience who are
used to acquiring their political news as filtered through the major media.”
The author says he “explores not only the
life and death of Ron Brown, but also the media
climate that allowed Brown to rise so noisily and fall
so silently.”
Cashill makes a powerful case that in the run-up to the 1996 election, the media reflexively overlooked the mysterious circumstances of Brown’s death and TWA Flight 800’s
demise – the subject of his previous book, with James Sanders, “First Strike” – lest their investigations jeopardize Bill Clinton’s re-election.
“My primary goal,” says Cashill, “was to convince the
most skeptical member of the C-Span audience that
major events could take place without their knowledge.
We’ll see if I succeed.”
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