American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand
Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol.1
- Hardcover
1192 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2019
Summary
‘America was never innocent.’ Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It’s James Ellroy’s pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper’s view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster’s take on the great events of an incendiary era. It’s a tour de force of the American idiom, and an acknowledged masterpiece.
American Tabloid gives us John F. Kennedy’s rise and fall from an insider’s perspective. We’re there for the rigged 1960 election and for the Bay of Pigs fi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593890 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593893 |
| Author: | James Ellroy, Thomas Mallon |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1192 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.04kg |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 140mm x 55mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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About The Author
James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed ‘L.A. Quartet’- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood’s A Rover completes the magisterial ‘Underworld USA Trilogy’ - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it ‘extraordinary’.
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