He left within a year to become a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Bulletin before joining The Philadelphia Inquirer as a general interest columnist. After his application to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism was rejected, something he later pointed to with pride, he became a general assignment reporter at the Worcester Telegram. McGinniss attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and graduated in 1964 from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. In his youth he was given a chance to pick a middle name and chose Ralph, after the baseball player Ralph Kiner. He was raised in Forest Hills, Queens, and Rye, New York. McGinniss and Mary (nee Leonard), a secretary at CBS. McGinniss was born in Manhattan, the only child of travel agent Joseph A. His last book was The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, an account of Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who was the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee. He is popularly known for his trilogy of bestselling true crime books- Fatal Vision, Blind Faith and Cruel Doubt-which were adapted into TV miniseries in the 1980s and 90s. The author of twelve books, he first came to prominence with the best-selling The Selling of the President 1968 which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon. (Decem– March 10, 2014) was an American non-fiction writer and novelist.
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