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Joe McGinniss

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Joe McGinniss


Born
in New York City, New York
December 09, 1942

Died
March 10, 2014

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Joe McGinniss was an American journalist, non-fiction writer and novelist. He first came to prominence with the best-selling The Selling of the President 1968 which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon. It spent more than six months on best-seller lists. He is popularly known for his trilogy of bestselling true crime books — Fatal Vision, Blind Faith and Cruel Doubt — which were adapted into several TV miniseries and movies. Over the course of forty years, McGinniss published twelve books.

Average rating: 4.08 · 41,523 ratings · 1,689 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
Fatal Vision

4.12 avg rating — 23,770 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions
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Blind Faith

4.09 avg rating — 6,354 ratings — published 1989 — 33 editions
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The Miracle of Castel di Sa...

4.20 avg rating — 4,110 ratings — published 1999 — 34 editions
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Cruel Doubt

4.01 avg rating — 2,586 ratings — published 1991 — 26 editions
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Never Enough

3.86 avg rating — 1,669 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
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Final Vision: The Last Word...

3.80 avg rating — 919 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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The Selling of the Presiden...

3.86 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 1969 — 18 editions
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The Rogue: Searching for th...

3.50 avg rating — 762 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Going to Extremes

3.97 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 1980 — 21 editions
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The Last Brother

3.71 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1993 — 15 editions
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“...giggling disconnected from humor.”
Joe McGinniss Jr., The Delivery Man

“It said, “There seems to be an absence in him of deep emotional response, coupled with an inability to profit from experience. He is the kind of individual who is subject to committing asocial acts with impunity. He lacks a sense of guilt, he seems bereft of a strong conscience, and he appears incapable of emotionally close or mutually cooperative relationships with women. “Derivatively, he apparently avoided, even resented, the demands on him to fulfill the responsibilities of having been a husband and a father of female children. Parenthood, for him, may have been viewed as threatening and potentially destructive.” The report also said, “He is subject to being amnesic concerning what he would wish to blot out from his consciousness and very conscience. His credibility leaves much to be desired. In testing, he proved himself to be considerably pathological and impulsive, with feministic characteristics and concealed anger. He has a disdain for others with whom he differs and he is subject to respond with anger when his person is questioned, on whatever basis.”
Joe McGinniss, Fatal Vision: A True Crime Classic

“I think everybody needs a father of sorts. Somebody that they can talk to or lean on or cry on his shoulder once in a while. And I don’t know who that person would be in my brother’s case, after my father passed away. There was no one alive that would be an adequate substitute. If he was looking to me for guidance, he didn’t see any, and so he went on his own.”
Joe McGinniss, Fatal Vision: A True Crime Classic

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