Dennis McDougal, Author . Perseus $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7382-0270-9
Though he tells more about the sometimes shady dynasty than about the newspaper, McDougal (author of The Last Mogul, about Lew Wasserman and MCA), an L.A. Times reporter, renders protagonist Otis Chandler, last of the family dynasty to run the Times,
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Dennis McDougal, Author . Wiley $25.95 (484p) ISBN 978-0471722465
Taking on not just a legendary subject, but a legendarily private subject—refusing biographers and TV personalities, Nicholson prefers “the occasional magazine Q&A or quickie newspaper interviewâ€â€”author and New York Times
film writer...
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Dennis McDougal, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $27.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-517-70464-6
Originally founded as a talent agency in 1924 by Jules Stein, an erstwhile Chicago ophthalmologist, the Music Corporation of America reached the pinnacle of its power from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s, when it perfected the art of delivering...
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Dennis McDougal, Author Warner Books $21.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-446-51672-3
Clearly Roy Miller, a California tax attorney whose clients include Ronald and Nancy Reagan, is a professional success. But his family life is quite another story. In the picture presented by McDougal, his wife was an obsessive nutritionist and a...
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Dennis McDougal. Wiley, $35 (540p) ISBN 978-0-470-63623-7
The legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan matures from “feckless, foolish poseur” to calculating, canny poseur in this gleefully acid-etched biography. New York Times scribe McDougal (The Last Mogul) chronicles Dylan’s project of “‘building a...
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Dennis McDougal, Author, Rick Morgan, Editor Grand Central Publishing $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-51538-2
Perhaps the most prolific serial killer of modern times, Randy Kraft murdered at least 60 young men in at least three states, usually torturing and sexually abusing them first. A factor that hindered his capture was Kraft's apparent normality; a...
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