"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on
the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from
grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you
lacked at conception. Mass market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that
never existed. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and
hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight...It’s
time to demythologize an era and build a new myth from the gutter to the stars.
It’s time to embrace bad men and the price they paid to secretly define their
time."
- James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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