Books by Jeff Guinn and Complete Book Reviews
Jeff Guinn, Author . Putnam/Tarcher $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-58542-186-2
Working with two tellers of the tribal history, Miss Charles Emily Wilson and Willie Warrior, Texas journalist Guinn interviewed more than two dozen people to produce a compelling narrative of the Seminole Negro (pronounced "Nay-gro") tribe&#
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Jeff Guinn, Author . Tarcher $18.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58542-513-6
When TV producer Bobbo Butler tries to save his ailing TV station, FUN-TV, with an American Idol
-inspired talent contest intended to find the real Santa, the man himself—fresh from Guinn's The Autobiography of Santa Claus
and How Mrs....
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Jeff Guinn, Author . Simon & Schuster $27 (467p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5706-7
May 23, 2009, will be the 75th anniversary of the bloody deaths of the Depression's dynamic crime duo.
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
Jeff Guinn
. Simon & Schuster
, $27 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5706-7
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Jeff Guinn, Simon & Schuster, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5424-3
There are no black and white hats in this gripping revisionist account of the famed 1881 showdown. There are only mixed motives, murky schemes, and misguided hotheads. Historian Guinn (Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde)...
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Jeff Guinn. Simon & Schuster, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4516-3
The notorious mastermind of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders emerges as an all-American ghoul in this riveting biography. Journalist Guinn (Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde) tells how an ex-con distilled California's...
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Jeff Guinn. Putnam, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-16542-9
Having written nonfiction accounts of such real-life criminals as the Clanton family, Bonnie and Clyde, and Charles Manson, Guinn’s second work of fiction is a sequel to his 19th-century historical western novel, Glorious. The story continues the...
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Jeff Guinn. Simon & Schuster, $28 (608p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6382-8
One of the ghastliest outbreaks of fanaticism in recent times, the 1978 mass suicide of some 900 members of the Peoples Temple church, gets a magisterial treatment in this biography of leader Jim Jones. True-crime journalist Guinn (Manson) follows...
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Jeff Guinn. Simon & Schuster, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5930-5
In this quirky, intermittently engaging history, Guinn (The Road to Jonestown) argues that the American road trip was partially popularized as an oddball semivacation indulged in by two of the 20th century’s most famous inventors. Inspired by a 1915
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Jeff Guinn. Simon & Schuster, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2886-9
Guinn (The Vagabonds) brings the U.S.-Mexico conflicts of the early 20th century to vibrant life in this superior history. At the heart of the story is Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary leader whose forces killed American soldiers and...
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Jeff Guinn. Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-9821-8610-4
Journalist Guinn (War on the Border) documents in this comprehensive and judicious account the 1993 raid by ATF agents on the Branch Davidians’ Mount Carmel compound near Waco, Tex. In 1992, the ATF gathered evidence that sect leader David Koresh...
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