Ellroy, James:American Tabloid, A Novel
- Livres de poche 1995, ISBN: 9780679403913
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Hardcover. fair to good. 26 cm, 100 pages, illus., some discoloration of pages, ink notation on verso and rear endpapers,former ow… Plus…
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Hardcover. fair to good. 26 cm, 100 pages, illus., some discoloration of pages, ink notation on verso and rear endpapers,former owner's address labels on endpapers. Part of frontis illus. cut off, loss of part of picture but no loss of text. John J. Floherty, was the author of 40 books. Mr. Floherty, was also an artist, a photographer, a former art and editorial director and a former public relations man. His writing led him to travel the equivalent of twice around the world, and he interviewed men in many jobs, from cabinet officer to cab driver, from patrolman to test pilot. He went to sea aboard the Coast Guard cutter Pontchartrain to observe the great hurricane of 1938. To get his stories firsthand, he lived in lighthouses, on lightships, with oil drillers, G men and Secret Service agents. He was a friend of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As a young man he rowed in an eight oar shell on the Harlem River and he joined' the New York National Guard's Seventh Regiment before World War I. He, was barred from war service because he had lost an eye in an athletic accident at the age of 14. After the war he headed his own public relations concern and photographic illustration service. In World War n, Mr. Floherty was chairman of Port Washington's mobilization and defense demonstration committee., Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935, 2, Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1989. (xxi) 394 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the upper left of the backcover and a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Overture: Note to the Rest of the Universe. The Eisenhower Era Begins: From Mink to General Motors; Challenging the Left: Back Ike for Peace; How Ike Earned His Afternoon Off. John Foster Dulles: Portrait of a Liberator. McCarthy Rides High: Quis Custodiet Custodem; Soap Opera Hero; The Silence in the Senate; A Skeptical Army General; The J. Edgar Hoover-McCarthy Axis; The F.B.I. Since the Witch Hunt. A Few Who Fought Back: Bleak Landscape of the Resistance; Man Against Myth; The Case of the Cooperative Teacher; Charlie Chaplin's Farewell Custard; Einstein Oxnam and the Inquisition; McCarthy's Bluff and Two Who Called It. An Attempt to Compel Informing: Why the Pilgrim Fathers Left; In the Footsteps of John Lilburne. The Death of Stalin: A Chill Falls on Washington; From Moscow: A New Kind of Confession. Churchill Abandons the Cold War. The New Chief Justice: From Vinson to Warren; May 17 1954. The Downfall of McCarthy: Redoubtable Gambler; The First Welts on Joe McCarthy; The Cost of Anticommunism; Guilty. Fetish of the Fifties: Security: Incommensurate Equation: Justice and Security; The Army Commissions Franz Kafka; Morality: A Security Problem; The Oppenheimer Verdict; Loyalty and Double Jeopardy; The Army and the Mind of Youth; Loyal Coastguardsman Comes Home. First Call for a Test Ban. The Drift of Foreign Policy: Sanity or War: Quemoy and Matsu; Toward Gobal Negotiations; Molotov at San Francisco; McCarthy's Secretary of State; Foreign Policy and Melodrama; Mutual Inspection: John Meets Ivan. The President's Illness. The Sickness of the South: The Murder of Emmett Till; The White Race: Alabama and Algeria; Eisenhower Goes Neutralist - on Civil Rights. The Free Mind At Work: The Vindication of Owen Lattimore; Harvey O'Connor: Fulfillment of a Responsibility; Barrows Dunham: Acquittal; Albert Einstein. National Suicide As a Form of Defense. U.S.S.R.: The Twentieth Congress: The Meaning of Khrushchev's Revisions; Historic Moment in the Soviet Union. A Visit to Moscow: This Rival Giant; Natasha's Ready Answers; The Soviet Criminal Code; The Legacy of Stalin. In the Fresher Air of Poland. The Presidency 1956: Who Is Eisenhower; The GOP's Own Personality Cult. Hungary: The Workers Rise Against the Workers' State; The Soviet Government Smashes Soviets. The Eisenhower Doctrine: Grand Design; A Readiness to Police the World; The Mote in Mine Own Eye. Mental Climate of the Fifties: Freedom of the Press: A Minority Opinion; The First Amendment and the Twentieth Congress; On the Death of Toscanini. Ike in Action: The Easy Way Out; Those Bull Sessions with Zhukov. Toward the Prosperous War: Misguided Missiles; The Responsibility of the Scientist; Military Minuet. The Mind of Nikita Khrushchev: Is This Marxism; No Competition in Ideas. The Liberal Court of Earl Warren: The Court Turns Back the Clock; The Watkins and Sweezy Decisions. The Black Man's Burden: Nobody to Vote For; Nixon Was Cordial in Ghana; The Beginnings of Revolution. A Stranger Knocks at Heaven's Gate. Our War Economy: The Liberals and the Military Budget; The Infationary Spiral; Creeping Socialism or Stumbling Capitalism. The American Secret Police: The FBI Investigates Itself; J. Edgar Hoover Reports; The Menace of Cyrus Eaton. Coexistence: Choice of Risks: The Latest Treachery of Nikita Khrushchev; The Chance to End Nuclear Tests. The Marines in Lebanon: Gunboat Diplomacy in the H-Bomb Age; Khrushchev Breaks Out of Containment. Racial Equality in Crisis: The Line Outside the Court; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; The Wall Between; The Evasions of Eisenhower. Little Rock: A Piece of Foreign Correspondence: When the Bourbon Flowed; In the Delta Country. Freedom of Thought - Here and There: Boris Pasternak; Delicacy in Journalism; The Daily Worker. T. First Printing - First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo., Little Brown and Company, 1989, 3, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($25.00). The jacket is protected by a removable clear-plastic sleeve. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. A few early leaves have a light paper clip impression in their upper margin. Minor wrinkle to pages 59-62. Pages are oterwise clean and unmarked. 1995. First printing with "First Edition" so stated on the copyright page. Bound in the original red boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the publisher: "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 loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . . Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . . Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.". First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (viii), 581pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, 4<
