About the Author
Dick Lehr is a former reporter for the Boston Globe (1983-2003). In 1991-1992 he was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Lehr was a Pulitzer finalist for investigative reporting. He won both the Hancock and Loeb awards. Currently, he is a professor of journalism at Boston show more University and codirector of an investigative reporting clinic. He and Gerald O'Neill are co-authors of Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss (2013). His other works include The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Dividemost (2010), Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War (2014), The Under Boss: The Rise and fall of a Mafia Family (1989), and Judgement Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders (2003) with Mitchell Zuckoff. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children. show less
Works by Dick Lehr
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob (2000) 742 copies
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl… (2020) 41 copies
The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War (2014) 34 copies
Black mass 2 copies
The Underboss 1 copy
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- Other names
- Lehr, Richard D.
- Birthdate
- 1954
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Occupations
- reporter
- Relationships
- O'Neill, Gerard (colleague, -1)
- Organizations
- The Boston Globe
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Statistics
- Works
- 13
- Members
- 1,363
- Popularity
- #18,859
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 49
- ISBNs
- 81
- Languages
- 5
For me, it wasn't. I don't normally venture into these kinds of books so it fell flat for me. That was the point on why I read it (expand those horizons, ya know?), but it did exactly as expected.
I found this book too slow. The content is really cool, especially how it follows the FBI through all of this. It was really intriguing and I can see why so many people would enjoy a book like this. For me, it's just too slow and didn't have enough of the other side of the story. It felt way too slow and factoid than actual story.
One out of five stars.… (more)