Confessions of a
Guerrilla Writer:
Adventures in the
Jungles of Crime, Politics, and Journalism
By Dan E. Moldea
Contents (2nd
Edition)
PREFACE: On taking it
PROLOGUE: Chasing a
ghost
PART ONE: Entering
the fray
1. Kent State
2. Surviving the
revolution
3. Into the real
world
4. Running for office
5. On selling out
6. Becoming a writer
7. Set up in Chicago
8. Jimmy Hoffa
disappears
9. At the Red Fox
10. The goon squad
11. The Local 299
violence
12. Manitoulin Island
13. A guerrilla
writer in New York
14. The man in the
black Cadillac
PART TWO: The
Teamsters & the Mafia
15. Dealing with the
FBI
16. Back to Detroit
17. The Hoffa Reward
Fund
18. A surprise
witness at the grand jury
19. The payoff man
20. Brother in The
Bond
21. Confronting
McMaster
22. “Jimmy ran off to
Brazil with a black go-go dancer”
23. Calling Sally
Bugs at Local 560
24. My lunch with
Hoffa's alleged killers
25. Death threat
26. The contract
27. To Washington, D.C.
PART THREE: Hoffa, Marcello
& Trafficante
28. “Who is Frank
Sheeran?”
29. "To do two things
at once is to do neither"
30. The Hoffex Memo
31. The killing of
the President
32. “I think my dad
knew Jack Ruby”
33. Findings
34. Brill and S &
S get tough
35. Briguglio and I
get whacked
36. Paddington to the
rescue
37. The New York Times creates me
38. Yes, we have no
Central Sanitation
39. The U.S. House
Assassinations Committee
40. Helping TDU and
PROD make peace
41. “The mob did it.
It’s a historical fact.”
42. The Paddington
bankruptcy
43. Fear causes
indecision
PART FOUR: Ronald
Reagan & MCA
44. Reagan courting
Teamsters
45. The Institute for
Policy Studies
46. The CIA and the
Mafia again?
47. Writers' rights
48. The American
Writers Congress
49. The Milo murder
50. Paying respects
51. Subpoenaed
52. Going back East
53. The Wall Street Journal settles
54. Reagan and the
Hollywood Mafia
55. Finding gold in
Los Angeles
56. William Morris
Agency, Viking Press
57. Korshak gets a
pass
58. Political
isolation
59. Bad timing
60. Trouble with the
New York Times
PART FIVE: The NFL & the
Mafia
61. The Frontline
broadcast
62. Investigating
professional football
63. Game-fixing in
the NFL
64. Rosenbloom was not murdered
65. Predicting the
media's reaction
66. Pre-publication
67. "A troublesome
book"
68. Looking for
fights
69. Debating an empty
chair
70. A secret meeting
in Las Vegas
71. "We have to
destroy you now"
72. A sudden problem
73. The review in the
New York Times
74. Pigs and sausages
75. Combat on Nightline
76. A game of chicken
77. “I’ll give you a
good fight!”
PART SIX: Moldea v. New York Times
78. At war with the New York Times
79. Joe Browne and
Gerald Eskenazi
80. Cooke v. Washingtonian
81. A slow judge
makes a fast decision
82. The U.S. Court of
Appeals
83. “Reversed and
remanded”
84. “Beyond a Bad
Review”
85. Kenneth Starr and
The World Amicus
86. An unprecedented
reversal: Moldea II
87. The Simmons-Starr
debate
88. The Supreme Court
says "no"
89. Alien Ink
90. The Washington Post and the FBI informant
PART SEVEN: From RFK
to OJ
91. An appearance of
conspiracy
92. Releasing the
LAPD's files
93. Interviewing the
cops
94. The suicide of
Greg Stone
95. Back in the game
96. Getting to Sirhan
97. Doubts
98. Confronting
Sirhan
99. When wisdom comes
late
100. Bad photograph,
great review
101. Old problems
become a new reality
102. The O. J.
Simpson case
103. Working with
Lange and Vannatter
104. Mark Fuhrman's lies and
delusions
105. Back on the
defensive
PART EIGHT: The road
to impeachment
106. From Fuhrman to
Foster
107. The odd couple
108. Help from an
unexpected source
109. The Foster crime
scene
110. Creating a
political firestorm
111. Regnery's
pro-Clinton book
112. The Lewinsky
scandal
113. The OIC leaks
114. Openly taking
sides
115. The secret tapes
116. Heresy
PART NINE: The Flynt
Project
117. Exposing
hypocrisy
118. Trying to remove
the President
119. I become Larry
Flynt's investigator
120. Targeting
Clinton's critics
121. The Flynt team's
first meeting
122. Going after the
House Speaker
123. The bombshell
124. Livingston
resigns
125. At play in the
fields of scandal
126. “The rule of
law”
127. Abortion and
aftermath
128. Geraldo sandbags
Flynt
129. Barr overplays
his hand
130. "Who got Bob
Livingston?"
131. Newsweek outs me
132. The right-wing
media reacts
133. Flynt nearly
dies
134. The Byrd
resolution
135. Light my fire
PART TEN: Intermezzo
136. Buried alive by
the Jello Left
137. Collateral
damage
138. Caucus of One
139. When I’m 64
PART ELEVEN: The D.C. Madam
140. Cowboy and
Lightfoot
141. “Are you two
working together?”
142. “So tell me
about David Vitter”
143. Morals of a
Muckraker
144. “Are you okay?”
145. Suicide before
prison
146. Opposition
research
PART TWELVE: Hoffa
redux
147. Frank Sheeran’s
conflicting confessions
148. Not a
distinction without a difference
149. “They’re digging
at a farm in Wixom”
150. “It’s going to
be a great day tomorrow”
EPILOGUE: So far . .
.
AFTERWORD (2nd
Edition): The kosher butcher
ENDNOTES