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Jul 13, 2022 · BAD CITY: Peril and Power in the City of Angels, by Paul Pringle | 289 pp. | Celadon | $29.99. A correction was made on. July 22, 2022. : An earlier version of the headline on this review ...
Jul 19, 2022 · A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
Jul 19, 2022 · Bad City was a fascinating, fast-paced, wild ride through layer after layer of corruption and deception used (mainly) to keep terrible men in powerful positions. * Thank you to Celadon Books for the gifted review copy. Bad City publishes July 19th.
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Jul 18, 2022 · Review: A Times reporter broke a major USC scandal. The real challenge: getting it published ... “Bad City” is set in a recent past — 2016 to be precise — when Davan Maharaj was The Times ...
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Jul 19, 2022 · Review: Fast-paced, insightful, and comprehensive! Bad City is the explosive, eye-opening investigation of one of the biggest scandals to rock the University of Southern California that started as a tip involving an unconscious woman, a hotel room littered with drug paraphernalia, and the Dean of its distinguished Keck School of Medicine, Carmen A. Puliafito and ended with the unearthing of an ...
Bad City is a behind-the-scenes look at Pringle's investigation into Carmen Puliafito and the consequent exposure of corruption by the University of Southern California (USC), the Pasadena Police Department, and the Los Angeles Times. The book describes his year-long struggle to publish the story of Puliafito's drug-fueled sexual activities.
Jul 19, 2022 · ― Kirkus Reviews "This tale of flagrant menace and endemic corruption is the subject of Pringle’s dazzling, irresistible new book, Bad City. In it, he has produced that rare and treasured gift for the nonfiction reader: a penetrating investigation that is also a genuine page-turner." ― Air Mail
