Summary: <p>Steve Cooper talks with writer Bill Knoedelseder. Bill is best known for his book I'm Dying Up Here which recently was turned into a Showtime series. Bill was a staff writer from 1977 to 1989 reporting on the entertainment industry for the Los Angeles Times. His series of articles in the 1980s into corrupt practices in the record business formed the basis for the book Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business and the Mafia. In 2012, his book Bitter Brew, which spans five generations of the Busch family and the foreign takeover of Anheuser-Busch made the New York Times Bestseller list and his latest book Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit is slated to come out in early 2018.<em><br></em></p><br> <p><img src="//coopertalk.podbean.com/mf/web/zdhcc7/Bill_Knoedelseder.jpg" alt="Bill_Knoedelseder.jpg" width="250" height="370"></p><br> <h1 class="booktitle"><span class="subtitle"><span dir="ltr"> </span></span></h1>
