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Title details for Dark Victory by Dan E. Moldea - Available

Dark Victory

Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob

by Dan E. Moldea
Lee Goettl
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Founded in 1924, the Music Corporation of America got its start booking acts into speakeasies run by such notorious Chicago mobsters as Al Capone. How then, in only a few decades, did MCA become the driving force behind music publishing, radio, recording artists, Hollywood, and the burgeoning television industry? Enter Ronald Reagan.

By the late 1950s, Reagan was a passé movie actor. As president of the Screen Actors Guild, he was also MCA's key client. With Reagan's help, MCA would become the most powerful entertainment conglomerate in the world. And with MCA's help, Reagan would secure a fortune (resulting in a federal grand jury hearing), be marketed to the public as a viable politician, and ascend to the presidency of the United States. But according to reporter Dan E. Moldea, there had always been another catalyst behind MCA: Ties to organized crime that reached back to the company's inception—and through Reagan's Teamster-backed candidacy—had never been severed.

From the author of The Hoffa Wars, this is an epic and serpentine investigation into the insidious links among Hollywood, the Mob, and politics.
Contains mature themes.

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    August 31, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9798350870350
      • File size: 387324 KB
      • Duration: 13:26:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 29, 1986
      Moldea's investigatory report, ostensibly a history of MCA, the $2-billion Hollywood conglomerate (Universal Pictures, etc.), is especially concerned with the firm's long-standing and, claims Moldea, questionable ties with President Reagan. The resulting tale of "power and manipulation'' is so complex, involving Hollywood, mob and political figures as well as government investigations, that it may try the patience of many readers. Recounting MCA's 62-year rise from Chicago dance-band booking agents into the ``General Motors of Hollywood,'' Moldea

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