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...goal. Ellroy explores the time period at length and ends up creating a fictionalized world behind real events, depicting the fallout from Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, the election of President Nixon, the presence and fear of communism, and the eventual death of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover from a more cynical perspective than the history books. His account of the era orients the readers in the plot and leaves them with a true sense of the anger, both righteous and profane, that highlighted the period. Ellroy’s distinctive style—the brief...
...Staff writer Roxanne J. Fequiere can be reached at rjfeq@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Roxanne J. Fequiere can be reached at rjfeq@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...
...J-term housing wasn’t so difficult to obtain after...