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Jason Wolfe, genius?

Because no one attacks a nobody like you. As a Boston Globe writer said while interviewing me a few months back "You're newsworthy". Indeed. Of course, I'm fighting for First Amendment rights and getting articles written about me, while getting paid for material being published in multiple books. unlike you, DTABOH


Raccoon, as for Howie's book, a better one is Jay Atkinson - LEGENDS OF WINTER HILL.

Jay was on my program - his book is far more accurate...and compelling. Then again, it wasn't a cut and paste quickie with some loudmouth abusing the public airwaves to sell it every day!

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400050765

ABOUT THIS BOOK
For one year, writer Jay Atkinson worked as a private eye for the storied firm McCain Investigations, founded by the late Joe McCain, one of the most decorated police officers in Boston history. In this colorful narrative, Atkinson describes the cases he worked that year, chasing down an assortment of felons, thieves, and con artists, as well as the ghost of a real American hero, legendary cop Joe McCain.
 
I think I heard of that book. There have been so many about the Boston mob; I also heard the audiobook version of BLACK MASS which is great.
btw I grew up in Nahant and Jason Anguilo was one of my Dad's Sea Scouts. My Dad, not the biggest fan
of someone like Howie (politically), got an audiobook version of Brothers Bulger for Christmas...

a blooper in Howie's book, which he acknowledged during an appearance at Jabberwocky Books in Newburyport
(taped by C-SPAN): he refers to "Salisbury Beach, New Hampshire". Oops--he had said he'd tried to get them
to correct it for the paperback version.
 
Some posts in this topic have been moved to Take It Outside.

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Salisbury Beach, Diana Ross singing "Stoned Love" (Not!), Peter Jones and Davey Noone of The Monkees Hermits!

Howie never let's a fact get in the way of his mumbling. Let the "typo" stay.
 
Well, most of the facts were correct. Howie took pains in the preface of his book to point out "This is a work of non-fiction" and he gave his sources; the fact he was at the Bulger hearings in D.C.; the "full disclosure"
bits about how R. Robert Popeo represented not just Billy Bulger and John Connolly but Howie himself
(politically motivated IRS & DOR investigations of Howie) and that Alan Dershowitz, who comes up in
the proceedings, represented Howie's wife in an action against "two broadcast networks and radio
talk show host Don Imus", etc. The facts were presented and backed up and when there was a slight typo
he admitted it.

Had Barnicle written the book on the Bulgers it may have gone into the fiction section!
 
Just compare Jay Atkinson's hard work to Howie's cut and paste job to a/b hard work and someone just shucking it. Cut and paste old Herald articles that hardly had the time and effort they needed in the first place and push the alleged "book" on a radio show. Ka ching goes the cash register. There are better books out there.
Go the the library and find them. At least 7 have my name in the credits!
 
He writes almost as well as Joe Viglione does. By the way speaking of Somerville (Howie Winter & Howie
Carr both lived there for a time), any memories of Bobby Boris Pickett who shed this mortal coil at 69
yrs of age?
 
Was just going to post on a separate thread, Raccoon

he lived around the corner from my cousins, including my cousin Janis who was the president of the
Johnny Crawford (The Rifleman) fanclub.

I was in discussions with Uni Music and Bobby Pickett's manager to re-release The Monster Mash L.P. on
Hip0 Select.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_en_ot/obit_pickett



`Monster Mash' singer Pickett dies at 69 By LARRY
McSHANE, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 8 minutes ago



NEW YORK - He does the "Monster Mash" no more.


Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff
impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top
of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's
most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia.
He was 69.
 
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