A review by lostjohn02
American Tabloid by James Ellroy

“He used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History.”

History text based on a tableau of blood, sex, booze, and bullshit. American dynasties where the only difference between the mob, the cia, the White House, and Hollywood is who’s writing the latest piece for the tabloids.

A book that is admittedly hard to stomach after hundreds of pages of being in the heads of mid century scumbags, but it’s probably a more truthful telling of this history than lots of the official ones out there