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For 40 years John Hadden and his daddy of the same name fought at the dinner table over politics, skill, and various issues regarding America. One was haunted by what he had witnessed during his long CIA job, from Berlin to Tel Aviv; the other retreated to the Vermont woods to point Shakespeare until finally he confronted his daddy at the stand one final time with a tape recorder. Discussions with a Masked Man is some conversations Hadden possessed with his daddy about the older man's 30-year job as a CIA official and how American policy afflicted the family and the planet. Father and kid discuss John senior's early on life as a kid in Manhattan, his training at Western world Point, the stench of bodies in Dresden following the conflict, Berlin and Vienna in the overdue forties and fifties at the height of the Cool Conflict, the follies of the Cuban missile crisis, how he disobeyed orders to bomb Cairo while he was place main in Israel through the Six-Day Conflict, and treacherous office politics in Washington. The storyplot unfolds in dialogue alternating with the writer's own recollections and reflections. What emerges is hilarious, unexpectedly candid, and deeply personal. Incorporating the candid descriptions of the world of the CIA with personal conversations between a daddy and kid, this reserve is written for the political junkie, the psychologist, the skill lover, or anybody who wonders who the hell their daddy really is.
