{"product_id":"the-housewives-underground-isbn-9780593728628","title":"The Housewives Underground","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable untold story of a network of amateur researchers who debunked the Warren Report, raising questions about JFK's assassination that remain unanswered to this day—a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American century from an \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"So interesting and so well told.\"—Liza Mundy, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCode Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sisterhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the winter of 1967, the official story of the Kennedy assassination was under threat. A scattered group of Americans had pointed to major problems with the report prepared by President Johnson’s hand-picked Warren Commission. Most surprising to some, “the typical ‘sleuth’ was more the concerned housewife than the big city hustler.” The women questioning the report, as one journalist observed, outnumbered the men two-to-one. Politicians and reporters referred to these women as “scavengers,” suggesting they were bored or eccentric women with murder-mystery fixations or crushes on the deceased President Kennedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Housewives Underground\u003c\/i\u003e, Kaitlyn Tiffany resurrects the story of Maggie Field, Shirley Martin, and Sylvia Meagher after decades of dismissal. Shirley Martin traveled frequently to Dallas, enlisted her children to help interview key witnesses, and irritated J. Edgar Hoover with her \"antagonistic\" attitude toward the FBI. Maggie Field hosted a screening of a bootleg copy of the Zapruder film and fundraised for a new investigation. And at the center of the story is Sylvia Meagher—a born-and-raised New Yorker who lived in the Village and worked at the United Nations, was devoted to the ballet and the Mets, cultivated fierce friendships and firm grudges, and dedicated twenty-five years to her conviction that the whole truth of JFK’s assassination had not been told. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeticulously researched and engrossing, \u003ci\u003eThe Housewives Underground\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers through the turbulent 1960s and 1970s—a time when more Americans began questioning what the government was telling them—revealing the incredible lives of Sylvia and her fellow so-called “Housewives” and bringing to light the crucial, overlooked role they played in asking the first, hardest questions about one of the most shocking events in American history.“Kaitlyn Tiffany masterfully unspools a hidden history of the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath, in what amounts to a cautionary tale for our time. This meticulous, nuanced portrait traces the full arc and outsize personalities of a controversy that has deepened over decades, showing how these women—like the country—moved away from an easy trust in what government tells us and how their effort to challenge that narrative consumed and altered their lives. So interesting and so well told.”\u003cb\u003e—Liza Mundy,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCode Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sisterhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaitlyn Tiffany \u003c\/b\u003eis a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of\u003ci\u003e Everything I Need I Get from You\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003ci\u003e How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the co-author, with Lizzie Plaugic, of the collection \u003ci\u003eOn Nobody Famous: Guesting, Gossiping, Gallivanting\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233684861157,"sku":"NP9780593728628","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593728628.jpg?v=1767739855","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-housewives-underground-isbn-9780593728628","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}