#1316 - Kieron Connolly

Kieron Connolly studied history at the University of Edinburgh and screenwriting at the National Film & Television School, where he co-wrote two multi-award-winning short films. As an author, his books include "Dark History of Hollywood" from the setting up of the studios by the movie moguls to the corporations that run them today, from drug addictions to McCarthy-era witch-hunts to the Mob, Dark History of Hollywood is the story of sex and excess, murder and suicide, ambition and betrayal, and how money can make almost everyone compromise. Also "Bloody History of America" a lively and fascinating account of the darker side of the story of the United States.