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...evolved into a masterly manipulator of New York's tabloid press and an astute political power broker, but his army of critics charges that he has not outgrown a tendency to play the crassest kind of racial politics. Case in point: the convoluted New York imbroglio this month in which Sharpton was reported to have offered to endorse Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer--a Puerto Rican who's trying to win the Democratic mayoral nomination by building a coalition of Latino and black voters--if and only if Ferrer backed a slate of black candidates Sharpton favored. The New York...
Howard began his career here as the Saturday secretary, while still a student at Columbia University's journalism school. Born and raised in Manila, Howard got hooked on news watching Ruther Batuigas, a police reporter for the city's Daily Star, a tabloid published by his uncle, Andrew Go. "He was forever solving some crime: interviewing the murderous leader of a jailhouse riot, bringing some fugitive in to face justice, surviving a shootout with a gunslinging gangster. One of the most exciting things I was ever allowed to do was hitch a ride with Ruther...
Readers of James Ellroy's groundbreaking, best-selling American Tabloid (1995) know pretty much what to expect from The Cold Six Thousand (Knopf; 672 pages; $25.95), which seamlessly picks up the story at the moment the earlier novel ended. Neophytes, though, deserve some advice and counseling. Think twice before you begin the first page. Are you sure you want to witness nearly every lurid conspiracy theory concerning public events during the mid-1960s fleshed out in brutal, nightmarish and totally unsentimental fiction? No? We hardened veterans thought not. Goodbye...
...American Tabloid--which all of you still reading this know is about three imaginary psychopaths involved in everything from the Bay of Pigs to the assassination of John F. Kennedy--is a hard book to follow. Having gone way over the top in his first portrait of recent U.S. history as gutter journalism and a paranoid drug trip, Ellroy can't replicate the first-time shock effects of Tabloid and must settle instead for offering more of the same. He does so brilliantly, but the thrills seem familiar...
...antiheroes who survived Tabloid, Pete Bondurant and Ward Littell, are in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, to do damage control on the J.F.K. "whack" that they helped plan on the orders of their Mob overlords. Also flying into the city that afternoon is a Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow Jr., who has been paid $6,000 by casino operators in his hometown to kill a black pimp named Wendell Durfee. Bondurant and Littell strongarm Jack Ruby into shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, but Tedrow blows his murderous assignment during a fit of conscience. His scruples will diminish when he hooks...