Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
By: Ronald Brownstein
3.81
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein tells the kaleidosco…
Want to Read $ 14.99"To this day, Huston seems less amazed that she found Polanski with a thirteen-year-old girl than that he was arrested for being so. "Those were the days where everybody thought that was just great," she remembered. "Everybody was operating with immunity. . . . Somebody takes the fall, and I think Roman probably took the fall for a lot of immunities. A lot of people I know at the time were going out with extremely young women, maybe not on a regular basis, but he certainly wasn't the only person around town who was sleeping with very young women.'97 It was a measure of how thoroughly the cloud of decadence had settled onto the Los Angeles scene by the mid-1970s that it didn't strike Huston as particularly unusual to find Polanski with a girl that young. Among the stars glittering in LA, the vices varied, but the costs were consistent."-Ronald Brownstein, Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
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2. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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4.17
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29. Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
By: Ronald Brownstein
3.81
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"To this day, Huston seems less amazed that she found Polanski with a thirteen-year-old girl than that he was arrested for being so. "Those were the days where everybody thought that was just great," …"-Ronald Brownstein, Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
30. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
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4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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31. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
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