Fredric Dannen is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his landmark book ''Hit Men: Powerbrokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business'' (1990), which investigated the behind-the-scenes dealings of the major American record labels in the 1970s and 1980s, focussing on the careers of leading

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and Dick Asher. ''Hit Men'' came in second on Billboard Magazine's list of "100 Greatest Music Books of All Time." More recently, Dannen was the co-author (with Barry Long) of ''Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East'', in which Dannen examines the connections between the

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film industry and Asian organised crime. Dannen was a contributing editor of '' Vanity Fair'' and in 1986 he was co-recipient of the

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's, Morton Frank Award for business reporting from abroad. His articles have appeared in ''

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'' was based on Frederick Dannen's ''New Yorker'' article chronicling Asian-American gang life in Queens, New York.

Works

Works by Fredric Dannen include: *

References

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