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  Dennis McDougal - Biography
McDougal's reporting has taken him to the top of San Francisco's Mt. Tamalpais at sunrise with Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama, Rodney King's rap music debut, Ethiopia with Harry Belafonte, Tokyo with former U.S. Ambassador Mike Mansfield, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer's Washington Heights bedroom for a discussion of the elements of good sex.
McDougal is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and has also written for Los Angeles Magazine, Brill's Content, Premiere, and the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine.
McDougal has been a lecturer in journalism and creative writing at UCLA, the University of Memphis, and the California State Universities at Fullerton and Long Beach.
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 Amazon.com: Mother's Day: Books: Dennis Mcdougal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
"Theresa Cross was a toxic mother, but the maternity myth blinded, deafened, and silenced those that might have stopped her." Dennis McDougal, with his flair for storytelling and his eye for vivid detail, is one of the best of true crime writers.
I found Dennis McDougal's writing to be superb.
Dennis McDougal has done an excellent job of giving us a chance to witness and even partially understand the bizarre behavior of...
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  Los Angeles Times - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Believing that the newsroom was "the heartbeat of the business" (according to McDougal's biography), Otis Chandler increased the size and pay of the reporting staff and expanded its national and international reporting.
Willes, the former president of General Mills, was criticized for his lack of understanding of the newspaper business, and was derisively referred to by reporters and editors as Captain Crunch.
Dennis McDougal, Privileged son: Otis Chandler and the rise and fall of the L.A. Times dynasty, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2002
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 Amazon.ca: Angel of Darkness: Books: Dennis McDougal,Rick Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Dennis McDougal (author of Mother's Day and In the Best of Families) tells the story effectively, combining extensive research and well-paced narrative with a wry, world-weary prose style that has just a touch of mordant humor.
Dennis McDougal delivers a true-crime page turner that I simply couldn't put down.
Another critic complains that this book introduces too many ambiguities, such as whether many of Kraft's victims could've been attributed to other "freeway killers" roaming Southern California (which the author discusses at length), or whether the evidence against Kraft points to other possible accomplices as well.
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 Dennis McDougal - Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L. A. Times Dynasty
Dennis McDougal - Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L. Times Dynasty
Above all, Privileged Son chronicles the life of Otis Chandler, the Times' chief architect after 1960, whose flamboyant exploits in and out of the publisher's suite changed the perspective of the newspaper, and Los Angeles, forever.
Using scores of insider sources, Dennis McDougal, the best-selling author of The Last Mogul, will surprise readers with his findings, including accounts of political graft and early mob connections among one of L.A.'s most prominent families.
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 Dennis McDougal - Home
"Dennis McDougal covers film for the New York Times.
From 1982 through 1993, he was a Los Angeles Times staff writer, where he won more than forty awards for his hard-nosed coverage of the entertainment industry.
It's probably just as well that Otis chose to be creamted following his death last year at 78 or he'd be tossing in his grave over what has become of his beloved newspaper.
www.dennismcdougal.com   (915 words)

  
 Mcdougal ancestry
Susan McDougal - Susan McDougal AKA Susan Carol Henley Born 1955 Birthplace Heidelberg Germany Gender Female County Jail Granted Immunity Pardoned by President Clinton 20 Jan 2001 Belgian Ancestry
WilliamsColey aqwc37 Generated by Ancestry Family Tree - Archibald Cambell MCDOUGAL 1 Bible record states that he was born 13 April 1823 gravestone states that he was born 22 Apr 1822 2 Texas Marriages 1850 1900
Truthdig Interviews Susan McDougal The Woman Who Wouldn t Talk - 2007 01 16 When Susan McDougal refused to implicate the Clintons in the Whitewater fiasco she was A New Spin on Human Ancestry
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 Dennis McDougal — KCRW | 89.9FM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Part 2 A controversial new book that covers a rarely-discussed aspect of Hollywood's history is featured this week.
Join Will Lewis in conversation with Dennis McDougal, author of "The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood."
A CD copy of Politics of Culture is available by calling 1.888.600.5279.
www.kcrw.com /etc/programs/pc/pc990202dennis_mcdougal   (52 words)

  
 Dennis McDougal - Mac's Books
The canny, ruthless Wasserman was famous for inventing new ways to increase MCA's percentage, most notably by bundling clients into packages the agency produced for the burgeoning television market--a glaring conflict of interest that finally prompted a Justice Department investigation.
Veteran movie journalist Dennis McDougal (author of Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald v.
Paramount) uses Wasserman's career as a case study in how the entertainment industry has changed over the course of the 20th century.
www.dennismcdougal.com /works.htm   (691 words)

  
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