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Shaun Assael

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Author, "The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin And Heavyweights." Now a feature documentary on Showtime.
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Life Inside the Fishbowl

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By Shaun Assael Verified
| The Assembly Verified
Eight years ago, BJ Barham was watching the results of the presidential election roll in with his wife when he grabbed a pen and wrote in real time, “She looked out the window and said, ‘The world is on fire.’” It was the kind of lyric that the founder of the band American Aquarium has built a 20-year musical career on: personal, engaged, enraged.
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Nixon Needed Help Wooing Black Voters. He Got the World’s Biggest Basketball Star to Help. Original

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By Shaun Assael Verified
| POLITICO Verified
Nixon Needed Help Wooing Black Voters. He Got the World’s Biggest Basketball Star to Help. At the Republican National Convention in 1968, Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned out to be an illusion. Wilt Chamberlain (right), who died of heart failure in 1999, never publicly regretted his support for Richard Nixon, though did attempt to rationalize the way he was used.
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Greg Lindberg’s Plan to Live Forever

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By Shaun Assael Verified
| The Assembly Verified
You really have to admire Greg Lindberg for writing a self-help book. This is, after all, the insurance mogul who allegedly pilfered $2 billion from his policyholders to live large; was accused in The Wall Street Journal of paying spies to tail models he wanted to date; and spent $50 million on lawyers to get his conviction for bribing the state’s top insurance official overturned after he’d spent 633 days behind bars. As it happens, 633 Days Inside is the title of Lindberg’s new memoir.
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