name: Joe McGinniss
birth_date: 1942-12-09 00:00:00
death_date: 2014-03-10 00:00:00
genres: Biography, True Crime, Fiction
avg_rating: 4.08
ratings_count: 43277
about: Joe McGinniss was an American journalist, non-fiction writer and novelist. He first came to prominence with the best-selling The Selling of the President 1968 which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon. It spent more than six months on best-seller lists. He is popularly known for his trilogy of bestselling true crime books — Fatal Vision, Blind Faith and Cruel Doubt — which were adapted into several TV miniseries and movies. Over the course of forty years, McGinniss published twelve books.