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His torrential, lurid masterpiece Witness , a best seller in 1952 and still Ronald Reagan's favorite book in the 1980s, ranks as one of the great American autobiographies.
If they didn’t make it as actresses, the “schools” turned them into call girls for the producers, and in 1922 the lurid rape trial of comic Fatty Arbuckle highlighted Hollywood’s decadent lifestyle of fast cars, bootleg whisky, and drugs.
In a world of lurid myopia, it's refreshing to see that a paper is still willing to put seven staffers on an overseas story.
Last summer, Finkelstein published an article with the lurid title "Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's 'Crazy' Thesis" in the British New Left Review . Shortly afterward, it was excerpted in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and in Italy's Panorama . Goldhagen promptly denounced Finkelstein as a supporter of Hamas, a radical Islamic Palestinian group.
The second of two installments in the presidential scholar's biography of the 36 th president is deemed "sound and judicious," and a corrective to Robert Caro's polemical anti-Johnson tomes (Sean Wilentz, the New York Times Book Review ). Critics seize on the lurid details, from LBJ's exposing himself to reporters to his behind-the-scenes machinations during the 1968 presidential campaign.