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Paperback American Tabloid: Underworld USA (1) Book

ISBN: 037572737X

ISBN13: 9780375727375

American Tabloid: Underworld USA (1)

(Book #1 in the Underworld USA Series)

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The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. 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...

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Rated 5 stars
They'll be talking about this book 500 years from now

Let's get one thing straight. This book is bigger than your house. Taller, wider, deeper and more powerful than anything you have beheld up to now, it takes the myth that was once 'nice' John F Kennedy, fleeces it, rips the guts out of it and blasts the remains into the gutter from where it started. This is a 600 page novel with a world-famous ending, the assassination of JFK. So you think, why should I read it? Well, it...

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Years Later This Book Haunts Me

I am not going to recap the book because after 110 reviews I am sure that has been done to death. I am just going to give you my opinion on this book I read about ten years ago. When I was in college I picked up this book completely as a fluke. It looked interesting, I am big into history and the book jacket peaked my interest. From the first moment I started to read I couldn't put it down. I carried it to the kitchen...

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American Mayhem

Cops act like criminals, criminals act like cops, and the twain collides and melds over and over again. There are no good guys in "American Tabloid," just guys who are mired in various levels of corruption. Ankle deep, waist deep, and in over their heads. One of the lessons James Ellroy gives us is that once you've touched your toe to the muck it will eventually suck you down. Redemption may present itself, but Ellroy's...

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Sleaze Lit 101

It's weird knowing of James Ellroy and not reading any of his books. I had loved the film version of "L.A. Confidential", but for some reason, I couldn't bring myself to pick up some of his material. Whatever the reason, some time ago, I picked up "American Tabloid" and basically didn't put it down until I got to the last page. It's a great book about the strange events that made up the late 50's and early 60's, weaved...

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Blistering,paranoid and brilliant

James Ellroy writes "hard boiled" fiction. If you hard boil an egg for about a week,perhaps. Ellroy inhabits a world all his own in crime literature. Having somehow survived a childhood from dantes seventh circle, he grew up to write these angry books where the bad guys are powerful white men{thinking of inherent power structures, he's quite correct}.American tabloid tells the story ,in all its vainglorious insanity, of that...

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