Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine - Softcover
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Before TMZ . . .
Before the National Enquirer . . .
It was Confidential.
Though it was printed on pulp paper and sold for only a quarter, Confidential could cost Hollywood stars their careers. From 1952 to 1957, it was the one magazine that refused to play by Hollywood’s rules—and was thus rewarded with four million readers per issue. If Look said that Lucy and Desi were the perfect couple, Confidential exposed him as a philanderer. If the studios claimed that Liberace, Van Johnson, and Tab Hunter were hetero he-men, Confidential set the record straight. Whether it was infidelity, homosexuality, drug use, interracial romances, or—worst of all—communism, Confidential exposed the stars’ secrets most sure to shock suburban America in the Eisenhower era.
Now, for the first time, this riveting book tells the story behind the phenomenon. Henry E. Scott reveals the truth about the publisher who loved white Cadillacs and chorus girls and the red-baiting editor who ended up a blood-spattered tabloid headline himself, as well as the libel lawsuit that brought the whole raunchy and remarkable enterprise to an end—but not before it had paved the way for today’s paparazzi-stalked, gossip-soaked world. It’s all here in one Shocking True Story.
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Henry E. Scott grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Scott, a former journalist, is a media consultant and the head of an executive search firm. He lives in New York City.
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