Elmore Leonard: Four Later Novels (LOA #280): Get Shorty / Rum Punch / Out of Sight / Tishomingo Blues pressure cooker both for his anti-Semitism and

both for his anti-Semitism and his autocratic leadership

like the Rainbow Coalition

and the kleptocracy that has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and democracy are more than just words

He examines the forces outside Silicon Valley that shaped the industry—in particular the effect of military patronage and procurement on the growth of the industry and on the development of technologies—and considers the influence of Stanford University and other local institutions of higher learning

and safeguard against a threatening world--if we give it the right support

Elmore Leonard: Four Later Novels (LOA #280): Get Shorty / Rum Punch / Out of Sight / Tishomingo Blues pressure cooker both for his anti-Semitism andAuthor Contributor(s): Leonard, Elmore; Sutter, Gregg Publisher: Library of America Date: 8 30 2016 Binding: Hardcover Condition: NEW The definitive edition of an American master of crime fiction culminates with four modern classics. In Get Shorty, a Miami loan shark with an idea for a movie finds a way to break into Hollywood as a producer, the perfect setup for Elmore Leonards brilliantly satiric take on an industry he knew well. Rum Punch (filmed