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The Badge

True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of Dragnet

The Badge( )
Author: Webb, Jack
Introduction by: Ellroy, James
ISBN:978-1-56025-688-5
Publication Date:May 2005
Publisher:Hachette Books
Imprint:Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $28.99
Book Description:

Before Charlie's Angels, Miami Vice, or NYPD Blue, there was Dragnet. From 1951 to 1959, Jack Webb starred as Sergeant Joe Friday in the most successful police drama in television history. Webb ("Just the facts, ma'am") was also the creator of Dragnet, and what made the show so revolutionary was its documentary-style format and the fact that each episode was "ripped" from the files of the LAPD. But 1950s television censors deemed many of the stories in the LAPD's files too violent or...
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Book Details
Pages:348
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Law Enforcement
True Crime / General
Social Science / Criminology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.97 x 20.955 x 2.438 cm
Book Weight:0.412 Kilograms
Author Biography
Webb, Jack (Author)
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels - "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", "L. A. Confidential", & "White Jazz" - were international best-sellers. His novel "American Tabloid" was Time magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir, "My Dark Places", was a "Time" Best Book of the Year & a "New Yorker Times" Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City.

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