About this title: As the 1950s come to a close JFK has his eyes on the White House, Bobby has a red-hot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa, and J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the "red menace." FBI agents Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell work all sides of the street--jerking the chains of made men, street scum, and celebrities alike.
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Edition: 7th Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ivy Books, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780804114493ISBN:0804114498
Description: No Illustrations. Very Good. No Jacket. ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK COVER, CORNERS LIGHTLY BUMPED. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780449000908ISBN:0449000907
Description: No Illustrator. Very Good. No Jacket. PICTORIAL PAPERBACK COVER, CORNERS LIGHTLY BUMPED, LIGHTLY BUMPED EDGES. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. read more
Edition: Vintage Books ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375727375ISBN:037572737X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 592 p. Audience: General/trade. Book is in excellent condition. Cover has a light crease. Pages are clean, binding is tight. We ship daily, Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN-13:9780375727375ISBN:037572737X
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"Disclaimer: I am a HUGE history nerd and I'm particularly enamored with this period in America; the 'New Frontier', the Rat Pack and the Kennedy's, Cuba, the Cold War etc.
Ellroy takes the same multi layered, labyrinth plotting he perfected in the LA Quartet and applies it to the dark underbelly of American history. Three characters all on a collision course with destiny.
Easily a top 5 novel for me. Absolutely epic, spanning years, with a fantastic cast of characters. The back half of the book really flies by too with a sense of quickening, expectant dread as all of the pieces move into place, plot within plots start to align, all building towards that day in Dallas."
"I went to hear Ellroy speak two weeks ago. He was proud, profane and a little angry. He was most entertaining and read three excerpts from his latest book "Blood's a Rover". This latest book is the last of a trilogy that begins with "American Tabloid". Ellroy's such an interesting character, and he does a masterful job of reading his own staccato-style of writing that I decided to read the first book of the trilogy. An unusual writing style along with a hip urban vernacular piqued my interest. After 60 pages I'm not disappointed. Now that I've finished the book I'd conclude that it was an interesting and successful endeavor on the author's part to create a fictional back story to world events. Ellroy successfully wove three years of history into his story (actually vice-versa), and lovers of historical novels will appreciate the effort. I'll add the next two parts of the trilogy to my To Read list, but probably won't pick them up for a while."
"Ugh, what a pain. He's one of Hemingway's children, all short, terse sentences and Men proving themselves Manly or Effeminate, action and violence and a bros-before-hos attitude before the phrase was coined. Using the most racist, misogynistic, homophobic, violent, ugly language, "That was the way they talked back then" but that doesn't mean your novel's vocabulary has to comprise exactly the nastiest parts of yesteryear's.
Also the whole plot felt really obviously twisty, like, Look what I can do with history!
The pacing was good though, except at the end when we lost most of '63, to make sure to cram in September and October before the book ended. That was a bit ridiculous.
I'd call this light reading for conspiracy theorists and people who find arbitrary violence entertaining."
"For those of my generation, and anyone who knows the history, this book, together with it's sequel, "The Cold Six Thousand", provides everything you need to know about how and why John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King were asssasinated and by whom. Best part, it's fiction by one of the best crime writers of our time. All the real characters are there (J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Sam Giancana, Jack Ruby etc. etc.) among the fictional, and these world changing events are presented in their historical context from the Civil Rights movement through the Vietnam War. Oliver Stone should have waited to make a deal with Ellroy before filming JFK."
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