Volume 43, Number 11 · June 20, 1996
Keystone Killers
By John Gregory Dunne
The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles
by Randall Sullivan
Atlantic Monthly Press, 706 pp., $27.50
You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again Parrent
by and Tiffany Robin, Liza, Linda. as told to Jennie Louise Frankel, Terrie Maxine Frankel, and Joanne
Dove Books, 251 pp., $22.95
The most important fact to remember about Joseph Gamsky, other than his conviction for murder in the first degree and subsequent sentence to life imprisonment in the California penal system, is that during the mid-1970s he was a high school debater. Gamsky, in fact, was so confident of his ferocious forensic skills that, according to Randall Sullivan's account in The Price of Experience, he was thrown off the debating squad after challenging his coach for not appointing him to the team captaincy he regarded as his by merit; the coach's decision, he argued, was a deliberately ignominious slight that could not be countenanced.
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