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The title of James Ellroy's latest novel, from a poem by A.E. Housman, captures the tracing of multiple conspiracies through the dark world where film-noir commies emerge with flawed victory over J. Edgar Hoover, " Drac " ( Howard Hughes ), the heads of the mafia, and Tricky Dick Nixon. Ellroy takes painful events from his own life and transforms these events into an artistic " explanation " for the JFK/RFK/MLK murders as well as why Watergate happened - all with the noir world of LA lurking as the final backdrop.
Ellroy's history of the US from the late 1940's beginning with the "Black Dahlia" may be ending with this novel as the old noir world, with its jargon and characters most definitely vanished by the resignation of Tricky Dick followed by the Feds' assault on organized crime in the following decade.
I enjoy the Satanic quality of Ellroy's worldview and his prose style which derives in no small measure from that neglected masterpiece of American writing " The Badge " by Jack Webb ( yep, the Dragnet guy was a better writer than 99% of so-called " serious " - yuppie - writers in the last half-century ). His history of the US ranks with Gore Vidal's US history via novels in telling the essential historical truths by way of artistic " lies " ( fiction ) !

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