7.Kefauver Committee Hearings, Third Interim Report, April 17, 1951, p. 2.
8.James Bacon, Made in Hollywood (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1977), p. 105.
9.Letter from Herbert A. Bergson to William C. Dixon, May 31, 1950.
II. THE FALL
Chapter Thirteen
1.Pye, p. 53.
2.Author’s interview with Laurence Beilenson.
3.FCC Hearings on Programming, Volume 24, October 13, 1960.
4.Justice Department memorandum, March 9, 1962.
5.Letter from George Chandler to Frank Gibney, publisher of SHOW Magazine, March 6, 1962.
6.Interview of John Dales by David Robb, unpublished, n.d.
7.Edward T. Thompson, “There’s No Show Business Like MCA Business,” Fortune, July 1960.
8.FBI report, September 28, 1961.
9.Justice Department memorandum, March 20, 1962.
10.Martin Kent, Ray Loynd, and David Robb, “Hollywood Remembers Ronald Reagan,” unpublished series of interviews between 1981 and 1982, pp. 58–61.
11.Interview with Lew Wasserman by David Robb, February 24, 1984.
Chapter Fourteen
1.Kent, Loynd, Robb, pp. 54–55.
2.Reagan and Hubler, p. 284.
3.Reagan and Hubler, p. 285.
4.Laurence Leamer, Make-Believe: The Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan (New York: Harper and Row, 1983), p. 176.
5.Kent, Loynd, and Robb, pp. 52–53.
6.Reagan and Hubler, p. 286.
7.FCC Hearings on Programming, Volume 24, October 13, 1960.
8.Letter from Maurice Silverman to William D. Kilgore, January 26, 1954.
9.U.S. v. Shubert, et al., 99 Adv. U.S. Sup. Ct. Rep. 213, February 14, 1955.
10.The Film Daily, November 28, 1956.
11.Letter from Bernard M. Hollander to Marcus A. Hollabaugh, March 24, 1955.
12.Letter from Stanley E. Disney to James M. McGrath, acting chief of the Los Angeles Antitrust Division, May 13, 1955.
13.Letter from James M. McGrath to Stanley N. Barnes, Assistant U.S. Attorney General, May 17, 1955.
14.Hover v. Music Corporation of America, et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District, Central Division, Civil Action No. 18159-HW.
15.Ibid.
16.The Hollywood Reporter, November 14, 1955.
17.David Robb, Daily Variety, April 18, 1984.
Chapter Fifteen
1.FBI report, April 23, 1969.
2.Walter Sheridan, The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), p. 31.
3.Michael Dorman, Payoff: The Role of Organized Crime in American Politics (New York: David McKay and Company, 1972), pp. 197–201.
4.Letter from Pierre Salinger to Robert F. Kennedy, June 12, 1957.
5.Hearings of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field (hereafter referred to as McClellan Committee Hearings), October 30, 1957, pp. 6275–6276.
6.FBI report, September 17, 1963.
7.Ibid.
8.Ibid.
9.McClellan Committee Hearings, p. 13123.
Chapter Sixteen
1.FBI report, September 27, 1961.
2.Justice Department memorandum, March 6, 1958.
3.Dun and Bradstreet, “Analytical Report,” May 21, 1957.
4.Justice Department memorandum, March 5, 1958.
5.Justice Department memorandum, April 22, 1958.
6.Fortune, July 1960.
7.New York Post Daily Magazine, June 6, 1962.
8.Justice Department memorandum, November 3, 1960.
9.Justice Department memorandum, June 22, 1961.
10.Justice Department memorandum, November 29, 1960.
11.Bill Davidson, SHOW, February 1962.
12.Justice Department memorandum, April 22, 1958.
13.Justice Department memorandum, August 7, 1958.
Chapter Seventeen
1.TV Guide, November 14, 1959.
2.Peter J. Schuyten, “How MCA Discovered Movieland’s Golden Lode,” Fortune, November 1976.
3.Justice Department memorandum, July 28, 1959.
Chapter Eighteen
1.IRS report on Sidney Korshak, February 1962.
2.FBI report, September 17, 1963.
3.Lester Velie, “Paul Ziffren: The Democrats’ Man of Mystery,” Reader’s Digest, July 1960.
4.Ibid.
5.Hersh, The New York Times, June 27, 1976.
6.Los Angeles Police Department report, April 23, 1969.
7.FBI report, September 17, 1963.
Chapter Nineteen
1.Reagan and Hubler, p. 314.
2.Ellen Farley and William K. Knoedelseder, Jr., The Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1980.
3.Reagan and Hubler, pp. 317–318.
4.Author’s interview with Richard Walsh.
5.The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 1980.
6.Ibid.
7.Kent, Loynd, Robb, pp. 19–20.
8.David Robb, Variety, April 18, 1984.
9.Raymond Strait, James Garner: A Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), p. 374.
10.Reagan and Hubler, p. 323.
Chapter Twenty
1.Justice Department memorandum, October 20, 1960.
2.Ibid., Part II.
3.FBI report, April 16, 1962.
4.FBI report, September 25, 1961.
5.Justice Department memorandum, October 24, 1960.
6.FBI report, November 13, 1961.
7.Justice Department memorandum, October 25, 1960.
8.Post Daily Magazine, June 5, 1962.
9.Justice Department memorandum, November 24, 1960.
10.Justice Department memorandum, October 27, 1960.
11.Justice Department memorandum, March 23, 1962.
12.Justice Department memorandum, July 14, 1961.
13.SHOW, February 1962.
14.FBI report, April 22, 1960.
15.Justice Department memorandum, November 4, 1960.
16.Justice Department memorandum, December 5, 1960.
17.FBI reports, January 8, 1962, and January 10, 1962.
18.Howard Kohn, “Sinatra: The History Behind the Rumors,” Rolling Stone, March 19, 1981.
Chapter Twenty-one
1.Justice Department memorandum, March 21, 1961.
2.Justice Department memorandum, March 31, 1961.
3.Justice Department memorandum, April 6, 1961.
4.Justice Department memorandum, April 10, 1961.
5.Justice Department memorandum, May 12, 1961.
6.Justice Department memorandum, May 22, 1961.
7.Justice Department memorandum, May 25, 1961.
8.Justice Department memorandum, June 7, 1961.
Chapter Twenty-two
1.Justice Department memorandum, August 22, 1961.
2.Justice Department memorandum, August 28, 1961.
3.Justice Department memorandum, September 12, 1961.
4.Justice Department memorandum, September 12, 1961.
5.Interview with John Dales by David Robb, unpublished.
6.Justice Department memorandum, September 18, 1961.
7.Justice Department memorandum, October 2, 1961.
8.Chandler letter to Gibney.
Chapter Twenty-four
1.Reagan and Hubler, pp. 325–326.
2.Justice Department memorandum, February 21, 1962.
3.Justice Department memorandum, March 7, 1962.
4.Justice Department memorandum, March 22, 1962.
5.Re-created conversation based on Justice Department memorandum, April 5, 1962.
6.The New York Times, April 22, 1962.
7.Justice Department memorandum, May 16, 1962.
8.U.S. v. MCA, District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California, Central Division, Civil Action No. 62–942-WM.
Chapter Twenty-five
1.Justice Department memorandum, July 18, 1962.
2.Justice Department memo
randum, July 25, 1962.
3.Justice Department memorandum, July 26, 1962.
4.Ibid.
5.Letter from Susman to Posner, July 27, 1962.
6.Justice Department memorandum, August 6, 1962.
7.Re-created conversation based on Justice Department memorandum, August 9, 1962.
8.Re-created conversation based on Justice Department memorandum, August 16, 1962.
III. THE RESURRECTION
Chapter Twenty-six
1.The New York Times, May 10, 1962.
2.The New York Times, June 10, 1977.
3.Justice Department memorandum, October 1, 1962.
4.Justice Department memorandum, March 9, 1962.
5.Reagan and Hubler, p. 337.
6.Cannon, pp. 94 and 97.
7.Interview with Stanley Rubin by David Robb, unpublished.
8.Author’s interview with Stanley Rubin.
Chapter Twenty-seven
1.FBI report, May 8, 1962.
2.FBI report, September 17, 1963.
3.FBI report, n.d.
4.FBI report, September 17, 1963.
5.The New York Times, June 29, 1976.
6.FBI report, October 23, 1963.
7.FBI report, September 17, 1963.
8.FBI report, September 17, 1963.
9.The New York Times, June 28, 1976.
10.Ibid.
11.John Kobler, “The Million-Dollar Sting at the Friars Club,” New York, July 21, 1975.
12.Dan E. Moldea, The Hoffa Wars (New York: Paddington Press, 1978), p. 129.
13.Demaris, p. 272.
14.FBI report, n.d.
15.FBI report, September 17, 1963.
Chapter Twenty-eight
1.Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, 95th Congress, 2nd Session, House Report No. 95–1828, Part 2, pp. 169–179.
2.Ibid., “Staff and Consultant’s Reports on Organized Crime,” Volume IX, p. 86.
3.Author’s interview with G. Robert Blakey.
4.Earl C. Gottschalk, Jr., The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 1973.
5.Leamer, p. 193.
6.Peter J. Schuyten, Fortune, November 1976.
7.Business Week, May 1, 1965.
8.Boyarsky, p. 106.
9.The Washington Post, May 31, 1982.
10.Lou Cannon, Reagan (New York: Perigee Books, 1982), p. 354.
11.Nancy Reagan, p. 127.
Chapter Twenty-nine
1.Author’s interview with G. Robert Blakey.
2.Author’s interview with Grant Sawyer.
3.Miami Herald, January 25, 1981.
4.Interview with Sawyer.
5.Testimony of Paul Laxalt before the Commission on the Review of National Policy Toward Gambling, August 19, 1975.
6.Author’s interview with Robert Maheu.
7.Author’s interview with Tom Mechling.
8.Letter to Ramsey Clark from Paul Laxalt, July 25, 1968.
9.Messick, p. 223.
10.Deposition of Sidney Korshak, SEC v. Parvin Dohrmann Company, et al., Southern District of New York, 69 Civ 4543, June 23, 1970.
Chapter Thirty
1.Messick, pp. 226–227.
2.Bob Gottlieb, “How Lew Wasserman Foiled the Wicked Witches and Became the Wiz of MCA,” Los Angeles, January 1979.
3.James Bacon, Made in Hollywood (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1977), pp. 155–156.
4.Forbes, September 1, 1969.
5.The Washington Post, September 20, 1984.
6.Cannon, p. 166–167.
7.Gary G. Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart, Governor Reagan, Governor Brown: A Sociology of Executive Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), pp. 46–47.
8.Cannon, p. 173.
9.Ibid., p. 175.
10.Minutes of the Nevada Gaming Commission, June 22, 1972.
11.Ibid.
12.Ibid.
13.Author’s interview with Bernard Nemerov.
14.Author’s interview with Robert Heymann.
15.Laxalt’s letter to The Sacramento Bee, November 18, 1983.
16.Edward Pound, The Wall Street Journal, June 20, 1983.
17.Author’s interview with Harry Reid.
Chapter Thirty-one
1.Letter to Lew Wasserman from Jack Findlater, March 1, 1973.
2.Letter to Sidney Sheinberg from Findlater, July 19, 1974.
3.Henry Denker, The Kingmaker (New York: David McKay Company, 1972), p. 10.
4.FBI report, August 8, 1974.
5.FBI report, July 26, 1973.
6.The New York Times, June 29, 1976.
7.IRS report on Sidney R. Korshak, March 22, 1972.
8.Fortune, November 1976.
9.Justice Department memorandum, February 25, 1976.
10.Fortune, November 1976.
11.Ibid.
12.Justice Department memorandum, May 9, 1975.
13.Justice Department memorandum, August 25, 1975.
14.Joyce Haber, The Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1975.
15.Messick, p. 242.
Chapter Thirty-two
1.Laxalt’s testimony before the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling, August 19, 1975.
2.Author’s interview with John Sears.
3.Author’s interview with Jude Wanniski.
4.Justice Department memorandum, April 12, 1976.
5.Letter to Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Kauper from Allen E. Susman and Jeffrey L. Nagin, June 11, 1976.
6.Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice, July 19, 1976.
Chapter Thirty-three
1.Demaris, pp. 339–340.
2.Justice Department memorandum, March 15, 1977.
3.Jody Jacobs, The Los Angeles Times, October 18, 1978.
4.In the Matter of the Application of Playboy-Elsinore Associates, et al., Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, A-4188–81T1, August 31, 1983.
5.Ibid.
6.Los Angeles, January 1979.
7.State of California, Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, “Organized Crime Control Commission: First Report,” May 1978, p. 61.
8.Mike Qualls, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 7, 1978.
9.NBC Nightly News, “Segment Three,” December 14, 1978.
Chapter Thirty-four
1.Paul McGrath, “Horsing Around with Off-Track Betting,” Chicago, November 1978.
2.The Chicago Tribune, July 21, 1971.
3.The New York Times, June 29, 1976.
4.NBC Nightly News, June 19, 1979.
5.Ibid.
6.FBI transcript of conversation among Joseph Lombardo, Red Strate, Anthony Spilotro, Allen Dorfman, and William Webbe, taped in Webbe’s office on May 1, 1979.
7.Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 13, 1979.
8.The Los Angeles Times, May 26, 1979.
Chapter Thirty-five
1.Jack Anderson, The Washington Post, August 14, 1981.
2.Jack Anderson, The Washington Post, July 18, 1981.
3.The Washington Post, July 14, 1981.
4.Interview with Wanniski.
5.Author’s interview with Mary Gojack.
6.Miami Herald, January 25, 1981.
7.Elizabeth Drew, Politics and Money: The New Road to Corruption (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983), p. 124.
8.The New York Times, December 14, 1980.
9.The Washington Post, June 10, 1982.
10.The Washington Post, December 17, 1980.
Epilogue
1.Saul David, The Industry: Life in the Hollywood Fast Lane (New York: Times Books, 1981), p. 215.
2.Ronnie Dugger, On Reagan: The Man and His Presidency (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983), p. 149.
3.The Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1981.
4.The Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1982.
5.The Los Angeles Daily News, July 21, 1985.
6.The Washington Post, November 22, 1985.
7.The Washington Post, September 27, 1984.
8.The L
os Angeles Times, April 23, 1985.
9.Author’s interview with Fred Fielding.
10.Author’s interview with David Gergen.
11.The Washington Post, November 20, 1981.
12.The Washington Post, October 24, 1981.
13.The Washington Post, April 9, 1982.
14.The Washington Post, October 29, 1982.
15.The Washington Post, May 9, 1983.
16.Jack Anderson, June 17, 1983.
17.The New York Times, October 13, 1983.
18.U.S. House Committee on Government Operations press release, March 23, 1984.
19.The New York Times, May 13, 1984.
20.Author’s interview with Roy Brewer.
21.Sid Blumenthal, The New Republic, January 6 and 13, 1986.
22.Robert I. Friedman and Dan E. Moldea, The Village Voice, March 5, 1985.
23.James M. Buchanan, “A Defense of Organized Crime?” in The Economics of Crime and Punishment, Simon Rottenberg, editor (Washington, D. C.: The American Enterprise Institute, 1973), pp. 119–132.
24.The Washington Post, August 2, 1984.
25.Chicago Crime Commission Report, March 4, 1983.
26.Hearings on the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, U.S. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), April 27 and 28, 1983, p. 29.
27.Letter to S. Cass Weiland, chief counsel of PSI, from Harvey M. Silets, January 18, 1983.
28.The Washington Post, November 14, 1985.
29.The Washington Post, March 3, 1986.
30.The Washington Post, March 6, 1986.
31.The Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1986.
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