Edward Jay Epstein

News From Nowhere Now:: Television and the News 01/11/2011

by Edward Jay Epstein

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What accounts for the picture of reality we get in the media? Edward Jay Epstein's classic study News From Nowhere revealed how financial and political considerations shaped te selection of news on television in 1973? His new book, News From Nowhere Redux show how and television news has changed in 2011.

Praise For News From Nowhere

- "A complex, fascinating book...Mr. Epstein shows that no educated citizen should rely exclusively on TV news, but also that none should fail to watch it."
-Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal

- "This book is burnished with insights on virtually every page. Epstein's analysis seems top me incontestable, and is offered woth great cogency, elegance, and sophistication."
- Stephen J. Whitefield, Brandeis University

-"The best book ever written about any aspect of Television."
-Richard Schickel

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The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies 24/01/2012

by Edward Jay Epstein

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$15.01

A fully revised edition of the popular guide to Hollywood finances, updated to reflect even newer films and trends

In a Freakonomics-meets-Hollywood saga, veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywood’s “invisible money machine,” probing the dazzlingly complicated finances behind the hits and flops, while he answers a surprisingly difficult question: How do the studiosmake their money?

We also learn:

+ How and why the studios harvest silver from old film prints ...

+ Why stars do—or don’t do—their own stunts ...

+ The future of Netflix: Why the “next big thing” now seems in such deep trouble...

+ What it costs to insure Nicole Kidman’s right knee…

+ How Hollywood manipulates Wall Street: including the story of the acquisition of MGM… wherein a consortium of banks and hedge funds lost some $5 billion… while Hollywood made millions.

+ Why Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered a contract genius…

+ The fate of serious fare: How HBO, AMC, and Showtime have found ways to make money offer adult drama, while the Hollywood studios prefer to cater to teen audiences.

+ Why Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is considered a “masterpiece” of financing ...

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LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD 11/10/2011

by Edward Jay Epstein

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A biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kemmedy. This book succeeds in finally breaking the legend created for Oswald. It begins by revealing an incredible series of contacts between rival intelligence officers concering the JFK assassination and culminates in a series of events that turn the CIA inside out. Investigative author Edward Jay Epstein managed to obtain Oswald's address book and interview more than 150 people who knew him.

PRAISE FOR LEGEND

"A fascinating, alarming, and enormously significant book on the mystery of Lee Harvery Oswald-- The New York Times Book Review

"One of the year's most important books."-- The Wall Street Journal

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The Rise and Fall of Diamonds 10/05/2011

by Edward Jay Epstein

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An investigation by Edward Jay Epstein into the De Beers cartel and the fantastic machine that created the illusion that diamonds are forever. The story of the men and manipulations that maintained the value of diamonds for over a century. Based on interviews with Harry Oppenheimer and the key executives of De Beers. As Newsweek describes it, "Reads like high-finance James Bond. Fascinating detail."

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James Jesus Angleton: Was He Right? An EJE Original 28/12/2013

by Edward Jay Epstein

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$7.87

A new biography of James Jesus Angleton by Edward Jay Epstein that asks the question: was he right after all? Angleton was the legendary head of CIA counterintelligence during most of the Cold War.. In May 1987, in one of his last phone calls, he told Dick Cheney, who was then a member of the House Intelligence Committee, that he needed to tell him in person something of vital importance. Even though Angleton died before the scheduled meeting, taking this secret to the grave with him, his mystery lived on.
John Le Carre could not have invented a character as intriguing as Angleton. He was ridiculed in the media, Congress, and in the CIA itself, when his mole hunt failed to find a spy in the CIA Investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein tells of his rise, fall, and the astounding revelations that emerged in the CIA after his death. Epstein .spent hundreds of hours interviewing him to understand the mind of this unique mind warrior. He met with him in orchid greenhouses in Kensington, Maryland, dining clubs in Washington DC, and his home in Tucson, Arizona to follow the convoluted layers of his universe of deception. Epstein also was one of the few journalist to interview his arch nemesis: Yuri Nosenko. In this extraordinary book, he sets out to answer a single question: Was Angleton right that the CIA had been penetrated?
Along the way we also learn much about the CIA and KGB during the cold war years, including:

+ Why KGB defector Yuri Nosenko was imprisoned by the CIA ...

+ What was Angleton’s role in the CIA assassination plots against Castro ...

+ How the CIA allowed the KGB to disinform two Presidents.

+ What weaknesses KGB spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen exposed in the CIA

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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? And Other Investigations of the Diamond Trade 03/12/2013

by Edward Jay Epstein

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$8.05

Edward Jay Epstein investigates the most brilliant illusion in modern history: the illusion that diamonds are so rare that they will maintain their value forever. He explains how the the De Beers cartel, backed by a syndicate of Jewish diamond dealers in London, created an artificial scarcity by controlling the worldwide supply and used modern advertising to establish it in the mind of the public. In this book, comprised of six essays, we also learn about the secret workings of the cartel over the past century, including:

+ Why you cannot always sell diamonds for the price you paid?

+ Why Russia is now taking over the cartel operation?

+ How De Beers now uses the concept of blood diamonds to control prices?

+ Why Nicky Oppenheimer exited De Beers in 2011?

Praise for Edward Jay Epstein:

"Brilliant Expose of the International diamond monopoly"
--Telegraph (London)

"Full of readable if somewhat garish descriptions of diamond mines, diamond traders, and the activities of governments. If Ian Fleming were alive, he would have found much rewarding material here."
-Woodrow Wyatt, Sunday Times

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THE JFK ASSASSINATION DIARY; MY SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TO THE MYSTERY OF THE CENTURY 27/09/2013

by EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN

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$7.41

One of the most important original documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to be published on the 50th anniversary of the event. The never before published diary of Edward Jay Epstein’s investigation into the assassination reveals startling new details. Epstein, one of America’s most acclaimed investigative journalists and widely acknowledged as the premier expert on the assassination, while still an undergraduate at Cornell, interviewed the members of the Warren Commission and its staff of investigators, and obtained their key files. He was the only journalist, ever, to have gained this access. His full findings are disclosed here for the first time. In his investigation, Epstein also interviewed the top officials of the CIA, including at length the legendary chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton. He was the only journalist to interview Yuri Nosenko, the KGB officer who claimed to be Oswald’s KGB case officer. Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney, who attempted to reopen the case, confided his methods and sources in Epstein. Epstein was, moreover, the last person to see George De Mohrenschildt, Oswald’s mysterious White Russian friend, who he interviewed for hours until the moment when he took his secrets with him in death. The JFK Assassination Diary is the true story at last of the incredible answers Epstein unearthed in pursuit of the greatest crime of the 20th century.

Praise for Edward Jay Epstein
" E-books galore, too, such as Edward Jay Epstein’s fascinating, star-studded, and spook-haunted Assassination Diary, which provides the backstage story to Epstein’s investigative odyssey in the reporting of his Assassination Chronicles trilogy—Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend—which features a cast that includes New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison , Hannah Arendt, spymaster James Jesus Angleton, Norman Mailer, Gerald Ford, and, in a sheer nightgown atop a ladder, actress Pamela Tiffen"--James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
Edward Jay Epstein is the first journalist to have investigated the official accounts of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He remains the only one to have interviewed all the members of the Warren Commission, and would go on to be one of the great investigative journalists of the era,—Michael Wolff, USA Today

“Epstein believes that conspiracies are more common than most journalists credit; for much of his career, he has reveled in the kind of tantalizing clues that could lead somewhere, or nowhere.” —Joe Nocera, The New York Times

“Epstein is a bulldog researcher.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“A brilliant investigator.” — Lou Dobbs

Praise For Agency of Fear

“Epstein tells all.”
—John Leonard, New York Times

“ Part detective story, part farce, part exposé, and part textbook on investigative reporting. It is ingenious, perverse, hilarious, and shocking.”
—Victor Navasky

“Exciting research, impressive thesis.”
—Norman Mailer

Praise For Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald

A fascinating, alarming, and enormously significant book on the mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald-- The New York Times Book Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edward Jay Epstein is the author of fifteen books. He studied government at Cornell and Harvard and received a Ph.D from Harvard in 1973. His thesis on the search for political truth became a best-selling book, Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. His doctoral dissertation on television news was published as News From Nowhere.

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Deception: The Once and Future Cold War 04/05/2012

by Edward Jay Epstein

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$8.61

Investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein's classic book on the use of deception by governments to win advantages,in the seldom seen universe of intelligence and counterintelligence. The Invisible war between intelligence services is brought to life in the era of the Cold War..The ultimate art of nations is , deception. It concerns, as James Jesus Angleton described it , " a state of mind —and the mind of the state." With a new introduction in 2014.
Praise For Deception
“Edward Jay Epstein ( Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald ) delves deep into the wheels-within-wheels of superpower intelligence and counterintelligence, showing ways in which the CIA and the KGB have been "provoked, seduced, lured into false trails, blinded, and turned into unwitting agents." Readers will find new information here on a multitude of subjects: programs involving CIA-written books published under defectors' names; the story of Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected in 1963 and was "at the heart of everything that happened at the CIA for a decade"; and the theories of James Angleton, the former CIA chief of counterintelligence, on the hidden motives of KGB super-mole Kim Philby. The book concludes with an ominously plausible argument that Gorbachev's glasnost is merely the sixth phase in a grand strategy of Soviet deception conceived soon after the Bolshevik Revolution. Highly recommended.”
---Publishers Weekly
"Epstein's account of the world of intelligence is fascinating,
instructive, and, in parts, sensational."
—Irving Kristol American Enterprise Institute

"This is an important book that reflects an epoch in United States
counterintelligence operations and philosophy."
—William R. Harris The RAND Corporation

"A brilliant investigator examines the fascinating history of glasnost
and the unseen motives and machinery of the Soviet state."
—Lou Dobbs , Fox News Network

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INQUEST: THE WARREN COMMISSION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUTH 09/10/2011

by Edward Jay Epstein

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$7.29

Inquest is the classic study of how a government attempts to establish the truth after the assassination of a president. Edward Jay Epstein, then an undergraduate at Cornell, was the only person to interview most of the members of the Warren Commission and its staff, lawyers, and investigators. He also obtained from them their memos and the crucial FBI Report. The result was a book that demonstrated that the Warren Commission had not solved the mystery of who killed President John F. Kennedy.
PRAISE FOR INQUEST

"The first book to throw open the question, in the minds of thinking people, the findings of the Warren Commission." -- The New York Times

"The single greatest contribution to the criticism of the Warren Report."-- The New Yorker

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Crude Cartel: An EJE Original 03/08/2011

by Edward Jay Epstein

( 1 )

$3.99

Edward Jay Epstein, who previously exposed the workings of the De Beers cartel in his classic book "The Rise and Fall of Diamonds," now turns to the crude cartel that dominated the world oil business for the past century. It began with a grouse shoot at Achnacarry castle in which tweed-dressed representatives of all the great oil companies and Rockefeller oil trust secretly carved up the oil resources of the middle east. It ended with OPEC. It is a story of bribery, greed, and power. An EJE Original.

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Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power 10/05/2011

by Edward Jay Epstein

$7.29

Edward Jay Epstein's investigation of how the Nixon administration attempted to use drug control policy to create a secret police.

Edward Jay Epstein is the author of 15 books, and which have been excerpted in the New Yorker, Atlantic, and Sunday Times of London. He studied government at Cornell and Harvard, and received a Ph.D from Harvard. My master's thesis on the search for political truth became the best-selling Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. His doctoral
dissertation on television news was published as News From Nowhere. He is the recipient of numerous of foundation grants and awards, including the prestigious Financial Times/ Booz Allen prize for both best biography and best business book for Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. His website is at www.edwardjayepstein.com.

Praise for Edward Jay Epstein:

“Mr. Epstein tells all: the manipulation of the news organizations to create a climate of fear aboutdrugs.... He is writing about an attempted coup d’etat. “
– John Leonard, The New York Times

“Epstein makes a persausive case that Nixon’s drug control program was misguided, bungled, and even oppresive.”
–Wall Street Journal

“A powerful expose.... As bizarre as anything to come out of the Watergate scandal, Agency Of Fear unveils the Nixon Administration’s attempt to set up a clandestine police force”
– Publishers Weekly

“Agency Of Fear has something new to say about drug enforcement and Watergate”
–Norman Mailer

“Part Detective story, part expose, and part textbook on investigative report. It is ingenious, perverse, hilarous and shocking.”
– Victor Navasky

“Fascination. The real force and power of is how Nixon used the issue of drugs as a tool of power...”
– Thomas Powers, New York Times Book Review

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