American Tabloid
by:
James Ellroy (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679403913 (0679403914)
Publish date: February 14th 1995
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 571
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Politics,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Suspense
Series: Underworld USA (#1)
4.01138497
American Tabloid is about bad men doing bad things to ensure that the history turns out just the way they want it to and they are not afraid of doing sordid, dreadful, despicable, immoral (if not often contradictory) things to shape up history to their vision. Theirs is not the glorious pages of the...
This totally works - and, as a JFK assassination buff (see my shelf), I loved it. It took awhile for the book to convince me, and some of it is certainly artificial -- I guess that's the noir element (which I dislike; hence, the missing star). But the characters are rich and believable - the Mob dia...
I've read AMERICAN TABLOID three times. It never disappoints. Bloody fantastic stuff. I'm going to re-read the follow up - the cold six thousand - having reminded myself of some of the stuff in AT. I'd forgotten how wonderfully Ward Littel reinvents himself during AT. You wanna read a great book the...
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