Who introduced Babe Ruth to Albert Einstein, and why? Who was privy
to the pact between Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, the romance
of the artist formerly known as Prince and Princess Di, and the fate
of Marilyn Monroe?Behold Max Vail (b. Maxim Valesky, 1900, St.
Petersburg; d. 1999, Manhattan)--a middleman of genius who be-strode
the realms of politics, entertainment, art, sport, crime and science.
"I have witnessed the world," he said simply. Yet the man who knew
everyone--kept their secrets, did their deals and never forgot where
the bodies were buried--was himself known to virtually none.His
private diaries, here made vivid with eighty-six extraordinary
computer collages, provide nothing less than the secret history of
our century, confirming some long-rumored events and revealing others
that are freshly shocking. In all, some two hundred iconic
personalities throng these pages, and their sagas--comic,
ignominious, tragic, heroic and bizarre--make a strange, compelling
narrative from the conflicted desires and obsessions of our times,
and a rare gift to the millennium.
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