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When construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline created an oil boom in the late 1970s, journalist Joe McGinniss headed north to find out what if anything was left of the "last frontier." He discovered, as one reader put it, "mind-bending contradictions" - greed, waste, addictions, and racism, all of which contrasted with the vast, untamed natural beauty and the honest, open, and independent spirit of the people.McGinniss looked at the underbell...

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Joe McGinniss Jr., who is "poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of marriage.Nick and Phoebe Maguire are a young couple who move cross-country to Southern California in search...

* A modern football fairytale and an extraordinary story of an Italian village and its football team's rise to the top against seemingly impossible odds.

Joe McGinniss's passion for horse racing and unsurpassed talent for observation combine in this riveting behind-the-scenes account of the 2003 racing season, told as only he could tell it. Volponi, winner of the 2002 Breeders' Cup Classic, was trainer P. G. Johnson's "big horse"--that singular animal that every trainer searches for, the horse that will bring its stable prestige, power, and riches. McGinniss follows Volponi and the iron-tough J...

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At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife, three young children, and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the universe." That marriage--to investment banker Robert Kissel--ended one November night in 2003 in their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour when Robert was murdered and Nancy became the prime suspect. Her 2005 trial captivated Hong Kong's expatriate c...

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The sordid, #1 New York Times bestselling true crime story of adultery, addiction, gambling debt, and murder in a privileged suburban town-from author and journalist Joe McGinniss. The Marshalls were the model family of Tom's River, New Jersey, living the American dream and seemingly in possession of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall, a successful insurance broker, was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was ...

Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor league soccer team--and delivers a brilliant and utterly unforgettable story of life in an off-the-beaten-track Italian village.When Joe McGinniss sets out for the remote Italian village of Castel di Sangro one summer, he merely intends to spend a season with the village's soccer team, which only weeks before had, miraculously, reached the second-...

The electrifying true crime story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children-murders he vehemently denies committing...Bestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald-a golden boy who seemed destined to have it all. T...

The story of Nick and Phoebe Maguire, a young couple who move cross-country to Southern California in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son following a trauma. But they arrive at the worst possible economic time. Instead of landing in a beachside property, Nick and Phoebe find themselves cemented into the dark heart of foreclosure alley, surrounded by neighbors being drowned by their underwater homes who set fire to their...

This is a thrilling debut--a novel about youth wasting itself knowingly against the laid-back, glossy, trademark amorality of Las Vegas, told in a voice that sounds like that of a slightly older, hipper Holden Caulfield, coming of age in a place that has no past or future--only the cool, gleaming, terrifying present. Sexy, touching, always shrewdly observed, and with a killer ending, The Delivery Man Is the Less Than Zero of the early 2000s--a...

Bestselling author Joe McGinniss is a renowned investigator of politicians and political image-making, with deep knowledge of Alaska gained from residence and reporting there and a talent for writing riveting narratives about noteworthy topics. His forty-plus-year career as an investigative journalist and author has been ideal preparation for a book on Sarah Palin, the embodiment of contemporary political packaging and self-professed exemplar ...