Recommended reading - Talk Radio (1987) & Talked to Death (1987):

Talk Radio (1987) & Talked to Death (1987)

Both books filmed as Talk Radio (1988), directed by Oliver Stone.

Talk Radio

by Eric Bogosian.
 
Published 1987.
Published by Concord Theatricals.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0573651248
ISBN-13: 978-0573651243
 
Description:
 
Characters: 7 male, 2 female, plus offstage voices.
Scenery: Interior.

Newly revised! Barry Champlain Cleveland's controversial radio host is on the air doing what he does best: insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound off. Tomorrow Barry's show is going into national syndication and his producer is afraid that Barry will say something that will offend the sponsors. This of course makes Barry even more outrageous. Funny and moving off beat outrage.

 

Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg

by Stephen Singular.
 
Published 1987.
Mass Market Paperback.
Published by Berkley.

ISBN 13: 9780425113295
ISBN 10: 0425113299
ASIN: 0425113299
 
Description:
 
The book that inspired Oliver Stone’s controversial film Talk Radio.
 
On June 18, 1984, one of the nation’s most controversial talk-show hosts was gunned down.
 
The murder triggered an extensive FBI manhunt that ended in a shocking discovery.
 

THE VICTIM: Alan Berg was the talk-show host all of Denver loved to hate. Aggravating. Irrepressible. Charismatic. Nobody escaped his withering attacks on hypocrisy, bigotry, and injustice.

 

THE CRIME: Berg was brutally murdered in front of his house. Unarmed. Unsuspecting. He was caught in a hail of machine-gun fire. His death shocked the country... and led the FBI on a nationwide manhunt for the killers.

 

THE SUSPECTS: The trail led investigators to the Order, a radical cult of neo-Nazi white supremacists. Armed and violent - their doctrine declared war on the United States and preached a philosophy of racial hatred and fear.