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Organisationen: Newsweek
Daily Mail
London Evening Standard
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David Gardner is an experienced writer and journalist, currently working as an editor for Newsweek. He also worked for the Daily Mail as a crime writer and senior foreign correspondent, filing dispatches from war-torn Beirut, covering the first Gulf War – he was the first British print journalist into Baghdad – and travelling around the world on assignments for the award-winning newspaper. He moved to California as the Mail's Los Angeles correspondent, which saw him cover four presidential elections and all the biggest US stories of the past two decades and worked until recently as the London Evening Standard's US correspondent. He has written several books, including The Last of the Hitlers (2001), an account of how he discovered the descendants of the German dictator, and Legends: Murder, Lies and Cover-Ups (John Blake Publishing, 2016), in which he investigated some of the most famous celebrity deaths in recent history, including those of President John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and Diana, Princess of Wales. He has also written a biography of the actor Tom Hanks, The Tom Hanks Enigma, and two novels. He divides his time between the UK and LA.

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Murder, Lies, and Cover-Ups: Who Killed Marilyn… von David Gardner

Murder, Lies, and Cover-Ups
Who Killed Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Princess Diana?
by David Gardner
This is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary.
I found this book interesting and full of background on the person the author was discussing. When it came to the cover-up, it was hard to decide on some of them if it might really be true or not. Some of the data used was not detailed enough to make me believe.
I always believed that Marilyn was silenced but by who was the question. Same with JFK. Michael Jackson? I don't think there was anyone after him, he was addicted to drugs and his doctor just gave him too much trying to appease him in my opinion. I am a nurse and I know you don't give that drug without being able to intubate someone.
Elvis Presley, I don't think it was a mob hit, sorry. He was over weight and using lots of drugs. He died of an overdose. Especially if the data showed all those drugs were in his system. Sure, his heart stopped....from the overdose.
Princess Diana? I never thought of a hit on her? Never crossed my mind but I didn't know all the politics going on across the world. Reading all the stuff in the book, it could be. Something to think about. It wouldn't be above them so Charles could get his ugly new lady in her place. There is corruption everywhere, even with royalty. That one I will pass on judgement.
Interesting book but stretches the imagination a bit to fit in places but matches other books in other places.… (mehr)

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MontzaleeW | May 12, 2018 |

The Tom Hanks Enigma: The Biography of the World's… von David Gardner

This book told me much about Tom Hanks and his film career. The author never convinced me that he had ever spoken directly with Tom or had his permission to write the book. It did appear that the author had spoken with people in Tom's life for direct quotes and information. The sloppy manner in which this book was written, or at least published (I can't say edited as it doesn't appear to have been) does make one wonder though... This is the most poorly edited book I have read in many years! Embarrassing mistakes such as Hampstead Health instead of Hampstead Heath, and another in the name of a famous person which currently escapes me. The quality of book construction was also the poorest I have seen in years. Both were so severe that I contacted Amazon to give them feedback and to request the ability to send the book back for a total refund.… (mehr)

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