Dell D-108 (1952). Cover by Mike Ludlow
Here are a few choice comments about this book from reviewers on the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/book/show/4921979-washington-confidential):
"The 1950s were a bit wilder than the ABC sitcom "Ozzie and Harriet" from the day might suggest. The Confidential crime series penned by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer were bestsellers which titillated the American public in great detail about bawdy nightlife, political corruption..." -- Phillip Crawford Jr.
"Incredibly racist, homophobic and rabidly conservative (in all the wrong ways, if there even is a right way), this book must have been quite titillating in 1951 to the same sort of people who nowadays get their "enlightenment" from Glenn Beck..."
-- Butch Lazorchak
"Okay, I like purple prose from time to time. Pulp fiction, in general, is something that I like the idea of more than I actually enjoy consuming. At first there were some slightly titillating stories of the seedy underbelly of D.C., but they quickly grew stale..." -- Frank
"I may be the only person to have read this book in the past fifty years but since I work with the personnel records of former government employees this stuff is my jam! Yes--it was horribly offensive but in the context of the time period during which it was written it gives us a feel for the attitudes of the time..." -- Ashley
Dell D-108 (1952). Cover by Mike Ludlow
Here are a few choice comments about this book from reviewers on the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/book/show/4921979-washington-confidential):
"The 1950s were a bit wilder than the ABC sitcom "Ozzie and Harriet" from the day might suggest. The Confidential crime series penned by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer were bestsellers which titillated the American public in great detail about bawdy nightlife, political corruption..." -- Phillip Crawford Jr.
"Incredibly racist, homophobic and rabidly conservative (in all the wrong ways, if there even is a right way), this book must have been quite titillating in 1951 to the same sort of people who nowadays get their "enlightenment" from Glenn Beck..."
-- Butch Lazorchak
"Okay, I like purple prose from time to time. Pulp fiction, in general, is something that I like the idea of more than I actually enjoy consuming. At first there were some slightly titillating stories of the seedy underbelly of D.C., but they quickly grew stale..." -- Frank
"I may be the only person to have read this book in the past fifty years but since I work with the personnel records of former government employees this stuff is my jam! Yes--it was horribly offensive but in the context of the time period during which it was written it gives us a feel for the attitudes of the time..." -- Ashley