{"product_id":"five-easy-decades-9780470422823","title":"Five Easy Decades","description":"\u003cdiv\u003ePraise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American culture and celebrity. I always read Mr. McDougal for pointers but worry that he will end up in a tin drum off the coast of New Jersey.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Patrick McGilligan, author of Jack's Life and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A great freeway pileup--part biography, part dysfunctional family chronicle, and part institutional and urban history, with generous dollops of scandal and gossip.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Hendrick Hertzberg, The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"McDougal has managed to scale the high walls that have long protected the Chandler clan and returned with wicked tales told by angry ex-wives and jealous siblings.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Real glamour needs a dark side. That is part of the fascination of Dennis McDougal's wonderful book.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Economist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Thoroughly reported and engrossing . . . the most noteworthy trait of MCA was how it hid its power.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Michael Blowen, The Boston Globe\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dennis McDougal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48305322754299,"sku":"9780470422823","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780470422823_e5c7fb36-c950-4f12-a0f5-3fb3147da0ae.jpg?v=1772481426","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/five-easy-decades-9780470422823","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}