American Tabloid: A Novel
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open. more
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Recent Reviews
- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-11-2009
- Wish it was here
I heard that this is a good book, but since I never received it all I can say is that Amazon has let me down more than once.I hope your readers enjoyed reading my review.
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-11-2008
- Non-Fiction Novel
A non-fiction novel mixing history with the characters that, I take it, Ellroy is practiced at evoking. Publisher's Weekly piously calls the history "revisionist," reassuring us that nothing really happened that we need to worry about....
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-01-2008
- Fact and Real Fiction!
James Ellroy burns all the bridges in this book. He spares no one from Castro to the Kennedy-s, from the FBI to the CIA, from Cuban immigrants to blue blood American aristrocrats. The story features two men: Kemper Boyd and Ward Little....
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-26-2008
- HISTORY WITH BODILY FLUIDS - AND STYLE!
History has always been written by the victors - and they have the tendency to iron-out all its bloody details and hide all their dirty secrets. This a TRUE CLASSIC: imagine a history book that reads like a tabloid. Every story up close...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-11-2009
- Wish it was here
I heard that this is a good book, but since I never received it all I can say is that Amazon has let me down more than once.I hope your readers enjoyed reading my review.
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-11-2008
- Non-Fiction Novel
A non-fiction novel mixing history with the characters that, I take it, Ellroy is practiced at evoking. Publisher's Weekly piously calls the history "revisionist," reassuring us that nothing really happened that we need to worry about....
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-06-2002
- BORING !!
Incredible!! Seven hundred pages of violence, nasty words, treason, murders, knives in the back, despisable characters...That's all you've got here. This was the greatest waste of time in my entire life. I believe in the conspiracy to...
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