Saul Landau, author and filmmaker - The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom - Has Died
Saul Landau, a writer and filmmaker best known for documentaries "Fidel" and "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang," died Monday. He was 77.
In a prolific career that spanned nearly 50 years, Landau wrote 14 books, directed or produced 10 film and television documentaries, and worked as an investigative journalist. His 1968 PBS documentary "Fidel," which offered an up-close view of the Cuban strongman, is infamous for prompting the firebombing of a New York theater that was scheduled to premiere it.
Landau's 1979 political documentary "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang," about the cover-up of health hazards associated with atomic bomb testing in Nevada in the 1950s, won the George Polk Award for best documentary in 1979. The filmmaker and his partners -- who included Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler -- also won an Emmy Award for best documentary.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-fidel-filmmaker-saul-landau-dies-20130910,0,6781670.story
The Pre_emptove Empire was one of his books; better know for films. RIP