The Broad in the Kimono

<p>1947 - The Mob establishes the Flamingo casino creating the famous Vegas strip. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics controlled by a dodgy Harry Anslinger is given massive funding to initiate the failed War on Drugs. Senators Thomas and Rankin start their communist witch hunt against a Hollywood where Jack Warner is at war with his writers as the long established Studio System begins to crumble.<br /><br />All this while the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers featuring professional baseball's first black player face off in the first televised World Series. And oh yeah it’s a Presidential re-election year.<br /><br />1947 - It was a great time to be alive. For some. But for Benjamin 'Benny' Joules' a promising young script writer who just signed a lucrative contract with Warner Brothers it could be better. Young Joules’ contract was abruptly cancelled when his body was found hanging in the closet of his Greenwich Village apartment.<br /><br />With the newly available gizmo called ‘tele-vision’ Truman Thomas Rankin Warner and others initiate a fight for control of the main stream media that reverberates until today.<br /><br />In the last book of the Operation Underworld Trilogy The Broad in the Kimono a remarkable episode of déjà vu is captured showing today’s political turmoil is a mere repeat of what has gone before.<br /><br />Specifically in the year 1947.<br /> </p>