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American Tabloid
American Tabloid
Author: James Ellroy
ISBN-13: 9780449000908
ISBN-10: 0449000907
Publication Date: 6/23/1997
Pages: 592
Rating:
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
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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.
author-wwiinovel avatar reviewed American Tabloid on + 22 more book reviews
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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"One of the great American writers of our time."
__Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The 50's are finished. Zealous young lawyer 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 and digging up Kennedy dirt. And Castro is mopping up the bloody aftermath of his new Communist nation. Lots of work for FBI men Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell.
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This was awesome. I have found a new favorite author.