Word: horan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RIGHT IMAGE by James D. Horan. 432 pages. Crown...
...SEAT OF POWER by James D. Horan. 438 pages. Crown...
...assistant managing editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, James D. Horan has spent much of his 35-year newspaper career as an investigative reporter or "digger." In this labyrinthine novel, he describes the city's seamy side vividly, if repetitiously: the sticky-fingered cops who protect the numbers racket; the Mafia-type Italians in East Harlem who run it, along with sundry other unsavory businesses; and bought judges who sanction it all. With other specimens of the "inside" novel genre, this one has several characters whose real-life models are familiar -the rabble-rousing, white-hating...