American Tabloid - James Ellroy
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Set in the period from 1958 up to the moment in 1963 when the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza and ended JFK's thousand day presidancy. The novel follows the lives of 3 men caught up in the events surrounding the cuban resitence, a presidential rise to power, the bay of pigs and the twisted mass of plots leading up to November 22nd 1963.