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Internationally known author and journalist Frank Sanello has written 20 critically acclaimed books, among them The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another (Sourcebooks, 2002), which after its American release was published in China, which normally despises Westerners’ often biased accounts of Chinese history; The Knights Templars: God’s Warriors, the Devil’s Bankers (Taylor, 2003); and Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America (Alyson, 2005).
Sanello has collaborated with nationally known academics in their areas of expertise. He cowrote Saving America: Solutions For a Nation in Crisis with Adel N. Shenouda, M.D., professor emeritus of nephrology at the University of Tennessee. The book offers Professor Shenouda’s fool-proof plan for affordable, universal health insurance.
Sanello coauthored The Addict Next Door: The Epidemic of Prescription Painkiller Abuse and Other Contemporary Plagues with USC Professor Jayson A. Hymes, M.D.
The author has written several biographies, among them Steven Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology (Taylor 1996); Jimmy Stewart: A Wonderful Life (Pinnacle/Kensington, 1997); Stallone: A Rocky Life and Halle Berry: A Stormy Life (Virgin Books, 2003).
Sanello combined his love of history and films in his nonfiction compilation Reel v. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact Into Fiction (Taylor, 2003), whose subtitle is more marketable but less accurate than the alternative the author suggested: Inaccuracies in Historical Films.
Sanello lectured on the US State Department's complicity in the Holocaust at Temple Isaiah in Palm Springs in March 2013 and has written about similar topics in magazine articles and in his Victims and Victimizers: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich (CreateSpace, 2012).
Fractured History Tales or Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About the Past Never Happened (CreateSpace, 2011) debunks dozens of myths almost universally accepted as historical “fact.”
Sanello's nonfiction book, Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America (Alyson, 2005) was made into a feature-length documentary in 2007. [link text][1]
A journalist for the past 35 years, Sanello has written articles for the Washington Post, the New York Times Syndicate, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Redbook, People, US Weekly, Penthouse.
Cosmo and other periodicals have excerpted his books. Sanello was formerly a film reviewer for the Los Angeles Daily News and a business reporter for UPI.
The author graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and earned a master’s degree from UCLA’s film school. He also holds a purple belt in Tae Kwon Do and has volunteered as a kickboxing instructor at AIDS Project Los Angeles where he taught self-defense classes for HIV/AIDS patients who had been AIDS- or fag-bashed.
Sanello lives in West Hollywood, California, and can be contacted at FSanello@AOL.com.
For more information about the profile photo and other issues, please contact James K. Williamson at james.kswilliamson@gmail.com.
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Biography, Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture actors and actresses, united states, History, Opium trade, Actors, biography, Actresses, China, commerce, Great britain, commerce, Opiumkrieg, frank sanello, steven spielberg, Actors, united states, African American motion picture actors and actresses, African american actors, African american entertainers, African american motion picture actors and actresses, Asia - China, Biografie, China, China, foreign relations, great britain, China, history, China, history, 19th century, China, history, foreign intervention, Comedians, biographyPlaces
United States, Europe, Hollywood, Ireland, New York, Asia, Bavaria, Berchtesgaden, Berlin, China, Florida, Italy, Los Angeles, Paris, PolandPeople
Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Commodus, Eddie Murphy (1961-), Gandhi Mahatma (1869-1948), Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Hermann Göring (1893-1946), Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Larry Flynt, Marcus Aurelius, Mel Gibson, Richard Nixon, Sgt. Alvin York, Sharon Stone, Sharon Stone (1958-), Steven Spielberg (1946-), Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise (1962-), ernst roehm, frank sanello, louis b mayer, pope pius xiiTime
1933-1945, 1946-present, 1962-present, 19th century, Foreign intervention, 1857-1861, From prehistory to 2000:) (Quest for Fire to Erin Brockovich), Nazi Germany, Opium War, 1840-1842ID Numbers
- OLID: OL381666A
- ISNI: 0000000114902695
- VIAF: 38623564
- Wikidata: Q5489399
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q5489399
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| September 30, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | add ISNI |
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| September 16, 2013 | Edited by Frank Sanello | added James K. Williamson as contact re: profile photo on OpenLibrary |
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