Word: mcginniss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fatal Vision, McGinniss...
...McGinniss ∙ Gorillas in the Mist...
...Fatal Vision. McGinniss...
NONFICTION: Andropov, Zhores A. Medvedev -The Book of America, Neal B. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom Eisenhower, Stephen E. Ambrose Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
Fatal Vision, heavy with transcripts and letters, is a haunting, obsessive resurrection of crime and punishment, '70s style. But McGinniss titillates the reader with revelations he fails to amplify. Was MacDonald addicted to Eskatrol, a psychotropic diet drug? Is he a borderline homosexual, tormented by confused sexual identity? Or is he an aberrant symbol of the "me" generation gone amuck? The answers may never be known, but the carnage remains. Readers may stay in step with the inconclusive author: "I have followed the tangled paths as far as possible and they have led me to places where...