Gosch, Martin A., and Richard Hammer. The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.
Hutchinson, John. The Imperfect Union: A History of Corruption in American Trade Unions. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972.
Katz, Leonard. Uncle Frank: The Biography of Frank Costello. New York: Drake Publishers, Inc., 1973.
Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.
Messick, Hank. The Beauties and the Beasts: The Mob in Show Business. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1973.
———. The Silent Syndicate. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Moldea, Dan E. The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicans and the Mob. New York: Paddington Press, 1978.
Mollenhoff, Clark R. Strike Force: Organized Crime and the Government. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
Peterson, Virgil. The Mob: Two Hundred Years of Organized Crime in New York. Ottawa, Illinois: Green Hill Publishers, Inc., 1983.
Reid, Ed, and Ovid Demaris. The Green Felt Jungle. New York: Trident Press, 1963.
———. The Grim Reapers: The Anatomy of Organized Crime in America. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1969.
Sheridan, Walter. The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972.
Smith, Dwight C., Jr. The Mafia Mystique. New York: Basic Books, 1975.
Turner, Wallace. Gamblers’ Money: The New Force in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
On Sidney Korshak
Hersh, Seymour M. (with Jeff Gerth). The New York Times, June 27–30, 1976.
Steiger, Paul E. The Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1969.
Velie, Lester. “The Capone Gang Muscles into Big-Time Politics,” Collier’s, September 30, 1950.
On the Reagan Administration and Organized Crime
Friedman, Robert I. “Senator Paul Laxalt, the Man Who Runs the Reagan Campaign,” Mother Jones, August–September 1984.
———, and Dan E. Moldea. “Networks Knuckle Under to Laxalt,” The Village Voice, March 5, 1985.
Goldberg, Steve. “Reputed Shady Figures Prominent in Laxalt’s Backers,” Winston-Salem Journal, November 14, 1982.
Gottlieb, Bob, and Peter Wiley. “The Senator and the Gamblers,” The Nation, July 24–31, 1982.
Hamill, Pete. “With Friends Like These,” The Village Voice, August 21, 1984.
McGee, Jim, and Patrick Riordan. “Laxalt Friends Allegedly Linked to Crime Figures,” The Miami Herald, January 25, 1981.
Moldea, Dan E. “More Than Just Good Friends,” The Nation, June 11, 1983.
———“Reagan Administration Officials Closely Linked with Organized Crime,” Organized Crime Digest, February 1982.
———“The Reagan Administration, Organized Crime, and the Left.” Seminar paper delivered at the Institute for Policy Studies, May 28, 1981.
———“Paul Laxalt and His Connections,” Crime Control Digest, May 28, June 4, and June 11, 1984.
Pound, Edward T. “Las Vegas Links,” The Wall Street Journal, June 20, 1983.
Walsh, Denny. “Agents Say Casino ‘Skimmed’ During Sen. Laxalt’s Ownership,” The Sacramento Bee, November 1, 1983.
On Ronald Reagan
Anderson, Janice. The Screen Greats: Ronald Reagan. New York: Exeter Books, 1982.
Babcock, Charles R. The Washington Post, September 20, 1984.
Boyarsky, Bill. The Rise of Ronald Reagan. New York: Random House, 1968.
———. Ronald Reagan: His Life and Rise to the Presidency. New York: Random House, 1981.
Brown, Edmund G. (Pat), and Bill Brown. Reagan: The Political Chameleon. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976.
Brownstein, Ronald, and Nina Easton. Reagan’s Ruling Class: Portraits of the President’s Top One Hundred Officials. Washington, D.C.: The Presidential Accountability Group, 1982.
Cannon, Lou. Reagan. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982.
———. Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1969.
Dugger, Ronnie. On Reagan: The Man and His Presidency. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983.
Harris, Roy J., Jr. “Old Friends May Play a Very Important Role in Reagan Presidency,” The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 1980.
Hamilton, Gary G., and Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Governor Reagan, Governor Brown: A Sociology of Executive Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
Herhold, Scott. “Reagan Acted as Informant for FBI,” San Jose Mercury News, August 25, 1985.
Leamer, Laurence. Make-Believe: The Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan. New York: Harper and Row, 1983.
Kneeland, Douglas E. “Reagan More Than a Millionaire but Extent of Wealth Is Hidden,” The New York Times, October 6, 1980.
Kent, Martin, Ray Loynd, and David Robb. Hollywood Remembers Ronald Reagan. Unpublished manuscript.
Miller, James Nathan. “Ronald Reagan and the Techniques of Deception,” The Atlantic Monthly, February 1984.
Reagan, Nancy (with Bill Libby). Nancy. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980.
Reagan, Ronald, and Richard G. Hubler. Where’s the Rest of Me? New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1965.
Reid, T. R. “Reagan: A Life Built on Performing,” The Washington Post, October 22–24, 1980.
Steffgen, Kent H. Here’s the Rest of Him. Reno, Nevada: Foresight Books, 1968.
On Ronald Reagan and MCA
Farley, Ellen, and William K. Knoedelseder, Jr. “Ronald Reagan in Hollywood,” The Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1980.
Moldea, Dan E., and Jeff Goldberg. “That’s Entertainment: Ronald Reagan’s Four Decades of Friendship with World Showbiz Colossus MCA,” City Paper, October 5–11, 1984.
Robb, David. “New Info on Reagan, MCA Waiver Probe,” Variety, April 18, 1984.
On Jules Stein, Lew Wasserman, and MCA
Beck, Roger, and Howard Williams. “MCA,” The Los Angeles Mirror-News, November 11, 12, and 13, 1958.
Davidson, Bill. “MCA: The Octopus Devours the World,” SHOW, February 1962.
Deutsch, Susan. “Lew!,” California Magazine, March 1985.
Fabricant, Geraldine. “A Movie Giant’s Unfinished Script,” The New York Times, October 20, 1985.
Gelman, David, and Alfred G. Aronowitz. “MCA: Show Business Empire,” New York Post Daily Magazine, June 4–10, 1962.
Harris, Kathryn. “MCA Takes the Cautious Road as Competitors Plunge Ahead,” The Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1981.
Hentoff, Nat. “The Octopus of Show Business,” The Reporter, November 23, 1961.
Gottlieb, Bob. “How Lew Wasserman Foiled the Wicked Witches and Became the Wiz of MCA,” Los Angeles, January 1979.
Gottschalk, Earl C. “If It’s Show Business, Chances Are MCA Inc. Is Deeply Involved in It,” The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 1973.
Kroeger, Albert R. “The Winning Ways of Sonny Werblin,” Television Magazine, September 1961.
Schumach, Murray. “Interview with Lew Wasserman,” The New York Times, April 22, 1962.
Schuyten, Peter J. “How MCA Rediscovered Movieland’s Golden Lode,” Fortune, November 1976.
Thompson, Edward T. “There’s No Show Business Like MCA’s Business,” Fortune, July 1960.
Wittels, David G. “Star-Spangled Octopus,” The Saturday Evening Post, August 10, 17, 24, and 31, 1946.
On Hollywood and the Motion Picture Industry
Adams, Joey. Here’s to the Friars: The Heart of Show Business. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976.
Atkins, Dick. Hollywood Explained. Livingston, New Jersey: Prince Publishers, 1975.
Bacon, James. Made in Hollywood. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1977.
Balio, Tino, ed. The American Film Industry. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1977.
Behlmer, Rudy, ed. Inside Warner Brothers: 1935–1951. New York: Viking, 1985.
David, Saul. The Industry: Life i
n the Hollywood Fast Lane. New York: Times Books, 1981.
Dunne, John Gregory. The Studio. New York: Touchstone Books, 1979.
Fitzgerald, Michael G. Universal Pictures: A Panoramic History in Words, Pictures, and Filmographies. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House Publishers, 1977.
Goodman, Ezra. The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
Green, Abel, and Joe Laurie, Jr. Show Biz: From Vaude to Video. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1951.
Gussow, Mel. Darryl F. Zanuck: Don’t Say Yes Until I Finish Talking. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
Hampton, Benjamin B. History of the American Film Industry: From Its Beginnings to 1931. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1970.
Hayward, Brooke. Haywire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
Higham, Charles. Hollywood at Sunset: The Decline and Fall of the Most Colorful Empire Since Rome. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972.
Hirschhorn, Clive. The Warner Bros. Story. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1979.
Jobes, Gertrude. Motion Picture Empire. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1966.
Lasky, Betty. RKO: The Biggest Little Major of Them All. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
LeRoy, Mervyn. Take One. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1974.
Marx, Arthur. Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man Behind the Myth. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1976.
McClintick, David. Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
Michael, Paul. The Academy Awards: A Pictorial History. New York: Bonanza Books, 1964.
Mosley, Leonard. Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Last Tycoon. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984.
Pye, Michael. Moguls: Inside the Business of Show Business. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
Rivkin, Allen, and Laura Kerr. Hello, Hollywood. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1962.
Rosow, Eugene. Born to Lose: The Gangster Film in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Strait, Raymond. James Garner: A Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.
Summers, Anthony. Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1985.
Thomas, Bob. King Cohn: The Life and Times of Harry Cohn. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967.
———. Selznick. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970.
Thomas, Tony. Howard Hughes in Hollywood. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1985.
Thomson, David. A Biographical Dictionary of Film. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1976.
Wiley, Mason, and Damien Bona. Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986.
Wilk, Max. The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood: From the Squaw Man to the Hatchet Man. New York: Atheneum, 1971.
Wilkerson, Tichi, and Marcia Borie. The Hollywood Reporter: The Golden Years. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1984.
Wilson, Earl. The Show Business Nobody Knows. Chicago: Cowles Book Company, 1971.
Zierold, Norman. The Moguls. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1969.
Zukor, Adolph (with Dale Kramer). The Public Is Never Wrong: The Autobiography of Adolph Zukor. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1953.
On Television and Radio History
Barnouw, Erik. The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Volume III: From 1953. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Bergreen, Laurence. Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1980.
Brooks, Tim, and Earle Marsh. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981.
McNeil, Alex. Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
Mankiewicz, Frank, and Joel Swerdlow. Remote Control: Television and the Manipulation of American Life. New York: Times Books, 1978.
West, Robert. The Rape of Radio. New York: Rodin Publishing Company, 1941.
On Big Bands and Music History
Bane, Michael. Who’s Who in Rock. New York: Everest House, 1981.
Chapple, Steve, and Reebee Garofalo. Rock ’n’ Roll Is Here to Pay: The History and Politics of the Music Industry. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1977.
Chilton, John. Who’s Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1972.
Dexter, Dave, Jr. The Jazz Story: From the Nineties to the Sixties. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
Gammond, Peter, and Peter Clayton. A Guide to Popular Music. London: Phoenix House, 1960.
Keepnews, Orrin, and Bill Grauer, Jr. A Pictorial History of Jazz: People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz. New York: Crown Publishers, 1955.
Simon, George T. The Big Bands. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1967.
Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. New York: Billboard Publications, 1985.
On General Media
Bagdikian, Ben H. The Media Monopoly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1983.
Compaine, Benjamin M. Who Owns the Media? Concentration of Ownership in the Mass Communications Industry. New York: Harmony Books, 1979.
Thomas, Dana L. The Media Moguls: From Joseph Pulitzer to William S. Paley, Their Lives and Boisterous Times. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981.
Whiteside, Thomas. The Blockbuster Complex: Conglomerates, Show Business, and Book Publishing. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1981.
On Red-Baiting and Blacklisting
Caute, David. The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.
Ceplair, Larry, and Steven Englund. The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Industry, 1930–1960. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980.
Cole, Lester. Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole. Palo Alto, California: Ramparts Press, 1981.
Kahn, Gordon. Hollywood on Trial: The Story of the Ten Who Were Indicted. New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948.
Navasky, Victor S. Naming Names. New York: Viking Press, 1980.
Schwartz, Nancy Lynn (completed by Sheila Schwartz). The Hollywood Writers’ Wars. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
Miscellaneous Works
Barlett, Donald L., and James B. Steele. Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979.
Cantor, Bert. The Bernie Cornfeld Story. New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1970.
Denker, Henry. The Kingmaker. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1972.
Fonzi, Gaeton. Annenberg: A Biography of Power. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970.
Garrison, Omar V. Howard Hughes in Las Vegas. New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1970.
Kohn, Howard. “Sinatra: The History Behind the Rumors,” Rolling Stone, March 19, 1981.
Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
Ostrander, Gilman M. Nevada: The Great Rotten Borough, 1859–1964. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
Velie, Lester. “Paul Ziffren: The Democrats’ Man of Mystery,” Reader’s Digest, July 1960.
Wilson, Earl. Sinatra: An Unauthorized Biography. New York: New American Library, 1976.
Zimmerman, Paul. The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
Litigations
Brady v. MCA, U.S. District Court of Nevada, Civil Action No. 374, 1962.
Finley v. MCA, et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, Central Division, Civil Action No. 4328-M.
Hover v. MCA, et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, Central Division, Civil Action No. 18159-HW.
U.S. v. Campagna, et al., 146 F. 2nd. 524 (New York, 2nd Cir. 1944).
U.S. v. MCA, et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, Central Division, Civi
l Action No. 62–942-WM.
U.S. v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., et al., 334 U.S. 131, 92 L ed 1160, 68 S Ct. 915.
U.S. v. Parvin Dohrmann, et al., U.S. District Court of New York, Southern District, 69 Civ. 4543.
U.S. v. Schubert, et al., 99 Adv. U. S. Supreme Court. Rep. 213.
Official Documents
Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union). Washington, D.C., 1983.
Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate (Oversight of Labor Department’s Investigation of Teamsters Central States Pension Fund). Washington, D.C., 1980.
Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling, “Testimony of Senator Paul Laxalt,” August 19, 1975.
General Accounting Office, Report by the Comptroller General of the United States, “Stronger Federal Effort Needed in Fight Against Organized Crime,” December 7, 1981.
Nevada Gaming Commission Minutes, “Licensing Hearing on the Ormsby House,” June 22, 1972.
President’s Commission on Organized Crime, “The Impact: Organized Crime Today,” April 1986.
Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C., 1975.
Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 1960.
Select Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 1951.
Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1979.
State of New Jersey Casino Control Commission, “Plenary Licensing Hearing of Hilton New Jersey Corporation,” 1984.
Newspapers and Magazines
The Atlantic
Business Week
Chicago
The Chicago Tribune
Collier’s
Daily Variety
Film Daily
Forbes
Fortune
The Hollywood Reporter
Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Herald Examiner
The Los Angeles Times
Newsweek
New York
The New York Times
Organized Crime Digest
Reader’s Digest
The Sacramento Bee
The San Jose Mercury News
The Saturday Evening Post
SHOW
Television
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