Edward Jay Epstein is an American investigative journalist and a former political science professor at Harvard, University of California, Los Angeles, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
Epstein obtained his degree in Government from Cornell University. One of his professors at Cornell was Vladimir Nabokov, for whom Epstein worked part-time advising the writer on which recently released films he should see. In 1973, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in government from Harvard University.
He did his master"s thesis on the search for political truth which later became a top-selling book
Career
He taught courses at these schools for three years. While a graduate student at Cornell University in 1966, he published the book Inquest, an influential critique of the Warren Commission probe into the John F. Kennedy assassination. Epstein wrote two other books about the Kennedy assassination, eventually collected in The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend (1992).
After teaching at Harvard, University of California, Los Angeles, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Epstein decided to pursue his writing career back in New York City.
Epstein obtained his degree in Government from Cornell University. Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth (1966) Counterplot (1968) News from Nowhere.
Television and the News (1973) Between Fact and Fiction: The Problem of Journalism (1975) Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America (1977) Cartel (1978) Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald (1978) The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion (1982) Deception: The Invisible War Between the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) & the Central Intelligence Agency (1989) The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend (1992) Dossier: The Secret Life of Armand Hammer (1996) The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood (2000) The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies (2010) The Annals of Unsolved Crime (2013) The John F Kennedy Assassination Diary: My Search for Answers to the Mystery of the Century (2013).