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Privileged Son: Otis Chandler And The Rise And Fall Of The L.A. Times Dynasty

Biographies & Memoirs

McDougal, Dennis

Historical

Grand Central Publishing

The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the 1990s, Lew Wasserman was the most powerful and feared man in show business for more than half a century. His career spanned the entire history of the movies, from the silent era to the present, and he was guru to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Jimmy Stewart, and to a new generation of filmmakers beginning with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. For more than four years, Dennis McDougal interviewed over 350 people who knew the man with the giant dark horn-rimmed glasses--colleagues, relatives, rivals--and drew on tens of thousands of pages of documents to produce this extraordinary and first-ever portrait of a legend and his times, a book that the New York Times Book Review called "thoroughly reported and engrossing" and that the Daily News called, simply, "a bombshell."

The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood

Arts & Literature

Da Capo

Based on unprecedented access to the Chandler dynasty, the acclaimed story of a media mogul extraordinaire--"thoroughly reported and engrossing" (New York Times Book Review) The Boston Globe hailed Privileged Son as "a well-researched, tough-minded, superbly composed story" by an author "adept at mixing scandal and gossip with art and business." It's the riveting tale of how a second-rate newspaper rose to greatness only to become a casualty of war-a civil war within the family that owned it. The story, never before told in such hard-edged style, spans the American Century, from 1884, when the Chandler family gained control of the just-born daily, through April 2000, when they sold it to the Tribune Company. With a capriciousness that is seldom seen even in the most dysfunctional media dynasties, the Chandlers, who helped make the national careers of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and other major political figures, controlled Los Angeles and the Times Mirror Corporation-and Privileged Son captures it all.

Since he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing them They were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charred and horribly mutilated. Now Dennis McDougal, acclaimed author of the spellbinding true crime tour de force Mother's Day, brings his considerable investigative and narrative skills to the Yosemite murders to give you the most complete account of what really happened. Drawing on several personal conversations with the confessed killer and interviews with the victims' families, McDougal presents the definitive story, and answers many lingering questions. What demons drove this quiet handyman and nudist colony habitue to burn, mutilate, and murder four women he didn't even know? How did he overpower a woman and two teenaged girls? And most disturbing, did the glory-seeking FBI actually hinder the investigation, leaving the killer free to kill once more before he was caught? THE YOSEMITE MURDERS offers valuable insight into these savage and senseless murders in the heart of America's most beautiful wilderness.

The Yosemite Murders (True Crime)

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Ballantine Books

Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his work--and the killer of 67 people--more than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse into the dark mind of a living monster. "To open this book is to open a peephole into hell".--Associated Press. Photographs.

Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most HeinousMurder Spree

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree

True Crime

In the Best of Families: The Anatomy of a True Tragedy

The author of Angel of Darkness reveals the true story of insanity, suicide, and matricide in the lives of Roy Miller (former personal attorney to the Reagans), his socialite wife, and his two "perfect" sons. National ad/promo.

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Ronald Reagan's personal attorney Roy Miller was a California success story. The Miller family's friends could never have imagined the horror and darkness that were to follow as Michael, the Miller's youngest son killed and raped his own mother.

Self-Help

Death & Grief

A MODERN MURDEROUS MEDEA... In June of l985, while her teenage sons held their half-sister down, Theresa Cross beat her l9-year-old daughter Sheila unconscious and then stuffed her into a 2' X 2' storage locker. After three days, the knocking, kicking, and cries stopped. Theresa and her sons dumped the girl's body in the desolate High Sierras.... The summer before, Theresa had dug a bullet out of her daughter Suesan's chest with a paring knife. When Suesan failed to recover (without benefit of doctors or hospital), Theresa and her two sons drove the delirious girl to the mountains , doused her with gasoline, and set her on fire.... For nearly nine years, Theresa Cross Knorr got away with murder, until her youngest daughter, Terry Knorr Graves, finally found a cop who believed the incredible story of her two murdered sisters. That story is all here, the shocking life of a woman whose violence, jealousy, rage, and domination led to a brutally heinous crime of ruthless ferocity.

Mother's Day

Fawcett

Examines the events that led up to and followed the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, who was allegedly killed by her husband, actor Robert Blake.

Blood Cold:: Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood

Onyx

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Privileged Son: Otis Chandler And The Rise And Fall Of The L.A. Times Dynasty

The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood

Privileged Son: Otis Chandler And The Rise And Fall Of The L.A. Times Dynasty

The Yosemite Murders (True Crime)

Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most HeinousMurder Spree

Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree

In the Best of Families: The Anatomy of a True Tragedy

In the Best of Families: The Anatomy of a True Tragedy

Mother's Day

Blood Cold:: Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood