Oswald is portrayed as an odd outcast of a man, whose overtly communist political views cause him difficulties fitting in to American society. The title comes from Lee's own astrological sign, and as a picture of a scale, symbolizes for Nicholas Branch the outside forces of history literally weighing in on Oswald's fate as well as the fate of the entire assassination plot. In DeLillo's version of events, the assassination attempt on Kennedy is in fact intended to fail the plot is instigated by disgruntled former CIA operatives who see it as the only way to guide the government to war on Cuba. The book takes the reader from Oswald's early days as a child, to his adolescent stint in the US Marine Corps, through his brief defection to the USSR and subsequent marriage to a Russian girl, and finally his return to the US and his role in the assassination of Kennedy. It focuses on the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and offers a speculative account of the events that shaped the assassination of President John F. "Libra" ( 1988) is a novel written by Don DeLillo. Media_type = Print ( Hardback & Paperback)
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