{"product_id":"five-easy-decades-book-dennis-mcdougal-9780470422823","title":"Five Easy Decades","description":"Praise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times \u003cbr\u003eDennis 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\u003ePraise for Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty \u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003eMcDougal 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\u003ePraise for The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood \u003cbr\u003eReal glamour needs a dark side. That is part of the fascination of Dennis McDougal's wonderful book.\u003cbr\u003e--The Economist \u003cbr\u003eThoroughly reported and engrossing . . . the most noteworthy trait of MCA was how it hid its power.\u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review \u003cbr\u003eOver 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49598189601041,"sku":"GOR003469441","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49667124429073,"sku":"GOR003468911","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351997419793,"sku":"CIN0470422823G","price":6.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002653835537,"sku":"NIN9780470422823","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331996156177,"sku":"CIN0470422823VG","price":5.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0470422823.jpg?v=1750698312","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/five-easy-decades-book-dennis-mcdougal-9780470422823","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}