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American Tabloid
American Tabloid
Author: James Ellroy
CHOSEN BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF — THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR — "ONE HELLISHLY EXCITING RIDE." — --Detroit Free Press — The '50s are finished. Zealous young senator Robert Kennedy has a red-hot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa. JFK has his eyes on the Oval Office. J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the Red Menace. Howard Hughes is dodging subpoenas a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804114493
ISBN-10: 0804114498
Publication Date: 12/30/1995
Pages: 544
Rating:
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3.5 stars, based on 22 ratings
Publisher: Ivy Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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starpugsnort avatar reviewed American Tabloid on + 2 more book reviews
Please note, the ISBN brings this book up as a hardcover, but in fact it is a softcover book. I have TRIPLE checked the book and it always comes up this way.
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Take the Mob, Howard Hughes, the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Exiles, the Kennedys (the father and 2 sons) and three indelible characters -- Kemper Boyd, Pete Bondurant, and Ward Littel -- toss them all together into a tightly woven narrative that reads like real American History even though it purports to be a novel, and you get a fast-paced, violent, gut-wrenching story of crime, conspiracy, and betrayal that begs to be believed as fact. James Ellroy pulls no punches and he throws quite a few. Whew! This one will wring you out and you'll love it.


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