'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss dies at age 71
Source: AP-Excite
By HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) - Joe McGinniss, the adventurous and news-making author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in "The Selling of the President 1968" and tracked his personal journey from sympathizer to scourge of convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald in the blockbuster "Fatal Vision," died Monday at age 71.
McGinniss, who announced last year that he had been diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer, died from complications related to his disease. His attorney and longtime friend Dennis Holahan said he died at a hospital in Worcester, Mass.
Few journalists of his time so intrepidly pursued a story, burned so many bridges or more memorably placed themselves in the narrative, whether insisting on the guilt of MacDonald after seemingly befriending him or moving next door to Sarah Palin's house for a most unauthorized biography of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate.
The tall, talkative McGinniss had early dreams of becoming a sports reporter and wrote books about soccer, horse racing and travel. But he was best known for two works that became touchstones in their respective genres - campaign books ("The Selling of the President"
and true crime ("Fatal Vision" . In both cases, he had become fascinated by the difference between public image and private reality.
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if only that would-be hit man who was unable to complete the task (he thought Mrs. Marshall was a lovely woman) had alerted her to the danger she was in 
Sorry to hear. 
