The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand & Volume 2: Blood's a Rover (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

James Ellroy

ISBN 10: 1101908041 / ISBN 13: 9781101908044

Published by Everyman's Library, 2019

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First printings of each volume. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dust jackets in protective covers. Both volumes are signed by James Ellroy on the title page. The author also dated each book 6/7/19, which is three days after each book was published. Venue's monthly event calendar is included. Volume I is also signed twice by Thomas Mallon, who wrote the Introduction. (Mr. Mallon signed Volume I on the title page and also on page xv, at the conclusion of the Introduction.) Volume I contains "American Tabloid" and "The Cold Six Thousand." Volume II contains "Blood's A Rover.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand & Volume 2: Blood's a Rover (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101908041
• ISBN 13: 9781101908044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

"America was never innocent."

Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster's take on the great events of an incendiary era. It's a tour de force of the American idiom, and an acknowledged masterpiece.


American Tabloid gives us Jack Kennedy's ride, seen from an insider's perspective. We're there for the rigged 1960 election. We're there for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. We're the eyes and ears and souls of three rogue cops who've signed on for the ride and come to see Jack as their betrayer. We're Jack's pimps and hatchet men, and we're there for that baroque slaying in Dallas.

The Cold Six Thousand takes us from Dallas to Vietnam to Memphis to the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. We're rubbing shoulders with RFK and MLK, calamitous klansmen, noted mafiosi. We're forced to relive the American sixties--and we come away breathless.

The first two books of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy revisit the most anarchic decade in our history. They are defined by their brutal linguistic flair and reckless panache.

About the Author

JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy--American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover--and the L.A. Quartet novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.