Ken Auletta
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable —- the result of shifting migration patterns and rapidl technological innovations —- and partly caused by anarchic political and economic factions, each angling for its own advantage. His lucid examination...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"A shocking account of how Harvey Weinstein rose to become one of the most iconic figures in the world of movies, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood power game for the New Yorker for three decades. Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote one of the iconic New Yorker profiles for which he is famous, of the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, then...
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.