All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-Up [Hardcover]

Raymond Chandler (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books; 1ST edition (September 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0975914723
• ISBN-13: 978-0975914724
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,266,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Should Be Listed in Fiction, November 1, 2009

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LisaG "LisaG" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-Up (Hardcover)

The byline on this book should be: Apologist to an extortion. The book is clearly written in direct response to Mary Fischer's GQ article and uncle Ray tries his best to refute the months of research done in preparation for that article. The main problem with this book is that Raymond Chandler had very little contact with the "characters" about which he writes. Clearly, his greedy brother did not share any of the money with him so Ray decided to write his own book from an insider's perspective. However, Ray had very little to offer in that regard. He knows that his brother is a money-hungry pig so he can factually write about his experiences on that issue. However, he had no contact with Jordie and could not describe anything that occurred there. It is important to note that Ray Chandler has repeatedly stated over the years that he felt bad about the impact that the allegations had on Michael's career. Does that make sense to anyone if he truly believed that Michael had molested his nephew?

More importantly, while many interviews were not published, Evan Chandler spoke to anyone who would listen to his tale. His conversations with others contradicted those included in uncle Ray's book. Uncle Ray does one very interesting thing: he makes a number of carefully disguised admissions that show it was an extortion. I believe that was the true intent of the book.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars only one star because I can't give it zero!, October 20, 2009

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moonsurface (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-Up (Hardcover)

This book is full of tabloid lies and speculation. If you really want to know what happened in 93' the book to read is "Redemption" by Geraldine Hughes. Raymond your book is garbage and you know it. You and your entire family are money hungry greedy people going after MJ to destroy his legacy. The facts about the 93' case are out there you just need to seek them. Here is a list of reads and visuals to start with:

1. "Was Michael Jackson Framed?" 1994 GQ article by Mary Fisher
2. "Redemption" by Geraldine Hughes about 1993 case
3. "Michael Jackson Conspiracy" by Aphrodite Jones bout the 2005 trial
4. "The Untold story of Neverland" DVD by Larry Nimmer
5. "The Visual Documentary" by Adrian Grant

It is really sad that the media controls people the way they want too. Wake up America the media is keeping the "TRUTH" from you by not giving you the whole story.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Book based on conjecture, November 12, 2009

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Ceilidh "avid photographer Kaylee" (Washoe Valley, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-Up (Hardcover)

I found this book to be interesting. I have read books from all across the spectrum about Michael Jackson (guity, not guilty, biographies). What bothered me about this book is that the author created actual conversations at meetings and situations at which the author was not present. At best, he must have gotten an account of them from his brother, and that is called hearsay. Rather than saying, "My brother told me..." he actually recites conversations as accurately portraying what took place.

Regardless, I was rather apalled that the book seemed to confirm that Evan Chandler saw the alleged molestation of his child as an opportunity to get money,(and the largest amount amount possible) rather than to obtain "justice". The re-created conversations between attorney Larry Feldman and Evan Chandler show two men gleefully plotting and strategizing how to get the most money out of Jackson. While there are some feeble attempts to justify this, they do not ring true. Actually, this book and Diane Dimond's "Be Careful Who You Love" did more to convince me of Jackson's innocence than most of the pro-MJ books.

And note this book was written in 2004, after the 2003 accusations. If the story was so important to get out, why was this book not written in the '90s? Another person attemtping to cash in on Jackson while the interest was high? And the book was poorly edited: 'manager' being spelled as 'manger', and Jackson being referred to as being 26 on September 5, 1985, when he was actually 27. There were more errors besides, which indicates to me that this book was not carefully edited.

I believe the book was intended to be an apologia for Evan Chandler. If so, it failed. If anything I was left with a worse opinion of Evan Chandler than before I read the book.