Edward Jay Epstein

Edward Jay Epstein (born 1935) is an American investigative journalist. While a graduate student at Cornell University in 1966, he published the book Inquest, an influential criticism 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). His books Legend (1978) and Deception (1989) drew on interviews with retired CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton. Subsequently Epstein has reported on the business aspects of Hollywood entertainment. He wrote notes on the book Lord of the Flies and brought the book to its publicity today. He is the oldest of two brothers.

Books by Edward Jay Epstein

• 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 KGB & the CIA (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)

External links

• Edward Jay Epstein official site
• Epstein's Hollywood Economist columns for Slate
• Amazon link for The Big Picture''
• "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?" The Atlantic Monthly February 1982