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...McGinniss; Putnam...
Since White, we have had swarms of imitators, spouting rich, majestic anecdote after rich, majestic anecdote, taking us behind the scenes for a romanticized look at the men who moved mountains. Joe McGinniss's wrong-headed and hopelessly dated Selling of the President 1968, which purported to expose the machinations of Richard Nixon's and men and their duping of an unsuspecting American public, has been typical of the genre. Packed with internal memos and insider information, McGinniss's book sought to convince the public that Nixon had won the Presidency because he manipulated his images at the expense...
John McPhee's and Joe McGinniss's books on Alaska appealed to the national myth of God's country and the manly fantasy of Huck Finn's flight from Aunt Sally and her civilizing ways. In the 49th state, one confronted a mystical vastness in which solitude is often confused with freedom. John Rothchild is drawn to a less awe-inspiring part of America: Florida, where the descendants & of the King and the Duke turned swamp into playgrounds and retirement pastures...
...When charges against MacDonald were dropped because of insufficient evidence, his father-in-law led a crusade to find the murderers. After examining the evidence, he, too, became convinced that his son-in-law had committed the crime. Years later, when MacDonald was finally brought to trial, Author Joe McGinniss began chronicling the story, and also concluded that MacDonald was guilty, in his 1983 bestseller Fatal Vision...
...Fatal Vision, McGinniss...