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Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity - Paperback

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by Ken Armstrong (Author), Nick Perry (Author)The adjectives associated with the University of Washington's 2000 football season-mystical, magical, miraculous-changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry's four-part exposé of the 2000 Huskies hit the newspaper stands: "explosive . . . chilling" (Sports Illustrated), "blistering" (Baltimore Sun), "shocking . . . appalling" (Tacoma News Tribune), "astounding" (ESPN), "jaw-dropping" (Orlando Sentinel). Now, in Scoreboard, Baby, Armstrong and Perry ...

Mass Rape: The War against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Paperback

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by Alexandra Stiglmayer (Editor), Marion Faber (Translator), Roy Gutman (Foreword by)"How is one to explain the sudden reappearance of genocide on European soil less than a half century after the Nazi Holocaust and after three gen-erations of Europeans and Americans had come of age accepting the motto 'never again'?"-Roy Gutman, author of A Witness to Genocide. Alexandra Stiglmayer interviewed survivors of the continuing war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to reveal, to a seemingly deaf world,...

Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven - Paperback

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by Virginia a. McConnell (Author)The attorney Virginia A. McConnell provides a riveting view of Connecticut in the late 1800s as revealed through the unrelated but disturbingly similar murders of two young women. The first, Mary Stannard, was an unmarried mother who worked as a domestic and believed herself to be pregnant for a second time. The man accused of her murder, Reverend Herbert Hayden, was a married lay minister whose seduction of Mary was common knowledge. Three years later, Jennie...

The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford - Hardcover

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by Robert W. P. Cutler (Author)Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner's jury verdict of murder--by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University President David Starr Jordan promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs. Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the s...

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by Phil Billingsley (Author) Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 01, 1988

Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989 - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Haslam (Editor), Karina Urbach (Editor)The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness of the sources, and the motivations behind their release--which can be the product of ongoing propaganda efforts as well as competition among agencies. Indeed, these difficulties lead to the Scylla and Charybdis of overestimating the importance of secret intelligence for foreign policy and statecr...

West of Hell's Fringe: Crime, Criminals, and the Federal Peace Officer in Oklahoma Territory, 1889 - 1907 - Paperback

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by Glenn Shirley (Author)When the remaining Indian lands of Old Oklahoma were made available for settlement in a series of openings beginning in 1889, thousands of people flocked to the region to try for a homestead. It was a grand chance for a new life. Unfortunately, ahead of, with, and after the homeseekers came the dregs of human society: those who would steal, kill-do anything to avoid working for even the necessities of life. Most of these outlaws operated across the imaginary border be...

American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power - Paperback

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by Thomas Reppetto (Author) "Reppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling." --The New York Times Book Review Organized crime--the Italian American kind--has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise--from the 1880s to the post-WWII era--that is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case hi...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre - Paperback

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by Juanita Brooks (Author), Jan Shipps (Foreword by)In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few wh...

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - Paperback

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by David Simon (Author)From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a hom...

Bringing Down the Mob: The War Against the American Mafia - Paperback

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by Thomas Reppetto (Author)American Mafia . . . was lucid, concise, and devoid of sensationalism . . . This equally well-written sequel is] cogent and] coherent.--The New York Times Book Review In his critically acclaimed American Mafia, Thomas Reppetto revealed the details of organized crime's ascendancy in America. His fascinating sequel follows the mob after its peak during Prohibition and the mayhem that followed. Drawing on a lifetime of field experience, he tells the stories of the Ma...

The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition - Paperback

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by James a. Baldwin (Author), David Adams Leeming (Author), Derrick A. Bell (Adapted by)One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell), and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searin...

Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend - Paperback

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by Paul Schneider (Author)The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who shot their way across Depression-era America, based on archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood--now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Strictly nonfiction--no dialogue or other material has been made up--and set in the dirt-poor Texas landscape that s...

Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers - Paperback

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by Ron Padgett (Author)Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma's most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out of Tulsa as a high-ranking member of the outfit known as the Dixie Mafia. In Oklahoma Tough, poet Ron Padgett tells the inside story of his notorious father and of how he earned his reputation as a Robin Hood "King of the Bootleggers." Oklahoma Tough is also a history of the distinctive mid-...

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by Frederick Nolan (Author)In The West of Billy the Kid, renowned authority Frederick Nolan has assembled a comprehensive photo gallery of the life and times of Billy the Kid. In text and in more than 250 images-many of them published here for the first time-Nolan recreates the life Billy lived and the places and people he knew. This unique assemblage is complemented by maps and a full biography that incorporates Nolan's original research, adding fresh depth and detail to the Kid's story and ...

The Taken: True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War - Paperback

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by Javier Valdez Cardenas (Author), Everard Meade (Translator)A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug trafficking, ordinary citizens live in constant fear of being "taken"--kidnapped or held against their will by armed men, whether criminals, police, or both. This remarkable collection of firsthand accounts by prize-winning journalist Javier Valdez C rdenas provides a uniquely human perspective o...

Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes - Paperback

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by Frederick Allen (Author)The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers. Frederick Allen's sharply drawn characters, illustrated by dozens of photographs, are woven into a masterfully written narrative that will change textbook accounts of Montana's early days--and challenge ...

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by Karen Holliday Tanner (Author), John D. Tanner (Author)The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his gang captures the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gang's crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws plied their trade in 1898.William Walters reached New Mexico Territory from Texas in the late 1880s and quickly gained a re...

Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Neal (Updated) - Paperback

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by James R. McGovern (Author), Manfred Berg (Foreword by)"A sensitive and forthright analysis of one of the most gruesome episodes in Florida history... McGovern has produced a richly detailed case study that should enhance our general understanding of mob violence and vigilantism." -- Florida Historical Quarterly"[McGovern] has succeeded in writing more than a narrative account of this bloodcurdling story; he has explored its causes and ramifications." -- American Historical Review"A finely ...

No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin Begnaud - Paperback

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by William Arceneaux (Author)On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. He was bound, gagged, blindfolded, stabbed more than fifty times, and robbed of over $5,000. Ten months later, after one of the most extensive manhunts in nineteenth-century Louisiana, public shock and outrage reemerged when two teenage brothers from France, Ernest and Alexis Blanc, were arrested for the crime. William Arceneaux sets the story of Begnaud's mur...

Dead and Gone: Classic Crimes of North Carolina - Paperback

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by Manly Wade Wellman (Author)Violent dealth is amazingly apt to remind us of vigorous life; these ten stories of classic North Carolina murders which occurred between 1808 and 1914 represent a much neglected part of the exciting history of the state. Victims include a Confederate general, a lovely orphan girl, a pathetic little boy, and a highly offensive political boss. The motives are the usual ones -- gain, revenge, "elimination," and jealousy.The plaintive history and untimely death of N...

The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel - Paperback

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by Bland Simpson (Author)As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901. Bloodhounds, detectives, divers, and even a psychic were brought in to search for her, and the case immediately became a national sensation. Bland Simpson, who first heard the tale as an Elizabeth City schoolboy, weaves this true story into a colorful...

Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium - Paperback

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by Andie Tucher (Author)Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases--a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt--set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely new kind of newspaper--cheap, feisty, and politically independent--introduced American readers to the novel concept of what has come to be called objectivity in news c...

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by Lisa Melville (Author), Renee Lane (Editor)Venture back to the Hudson Valley of 1912 in this unique look at a salacious historical murder. The Grace murder was Walden's "Lizzie Borden" case, and author Lisa Melville offers a fascinating snapshot of a village's past as she chronicles one of the most infamous murders of its time. Murder was a rare occurrence in the small village of Walden, New York, 60 miles north of Manhattan. The Grace case was scandalous, involving sex, lies and a violent...

I Count the Dark: A Memoir of Perseverance, Trauma, Survival and Determination - Paperback

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by Berthienna E. Green (Author)The memoir begins in 1979 with me, Tina Green, a Black 19-year-old North Philadelphia girl dreaming of becoming an interpretive dancer like Paula Kelly and a proud member of the United States Air Force. My life consists of academics, the theatrical arts, and my boyfriend 'Davis, ' whom I met at The Freedom Theatre, where I learned to dance, sing, and act, honing my skills and aspirations of one day appearing on a Broadway stage. In the span of a few short years,...

Stolen The Book Of Ah'Hava Elyon - Paperback

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by Ah'hava E. Elyon (Author)Are you looking for a gripping and powerful read that will take you on an emotional journey? Look no further than "Stolen - The Book Of Ah'Hava Elyon". This epic saga is a tale of murder, tragedy, and ultimately, redemption. The author's courageous account of his personal journey will leave you spellbound and deeply moved.If you're ready to be transported to a world of loss, love, and healing, then you won't want to miss out on this unforgettable book. It's a story...

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by Kim Marie (Author)Paythan Burke is a Lakota Indian who is passionate about his people andtheir plight. The tribe provides a scholarship into a university where he drafts a mysterious screenplay referencing Crazy Horse and his role in the history of the Black Hills. A protest there draws him to those sacred lands, to protect and give voice to the families of the missing and murdered. But his sister disappears when law enforcement breaks up the gathering. Not long after his search for her be...

Criminal Tendencies: The Salvatore Luzani Story - Paperback

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by Steve Stanley (Author)Criminal Tendencies is the true story of Salvatore Luzani, who went from an almost normal high-school student in the suburbs to forming his own paramilitary "crew" and climbing the ladder to become a Top Tier Drug Dealer. He was not shy about taking on any enemy, including the Mob.He built such a reputation that people knew if they crossed Sal, they would most likely be swimming with the fishes. Readers will be reluctant to put this book down. It is filled with suspen...

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by Dee Plecic (Author)y of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the Margin of the Sky is the original true story of Dee Plecic. She used her experiences as a survivor 3.5 years of the siege of the Sarajevo to describe the traumas of the war and genocide called "Ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. At the beginning of the story, she explained the short history of Yugoslavia and sleeping volcano of Nationalism on the Balkan Peninsula. After president of Yugoslavia Tito died, a Serbian, Croatian and Muslim nation...

Gotcha Cold Case: True Crime Stories from the Detectives Who Solved It - Paperback

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by Brad Schlerf (Author)Gotcha Cold Case is the first in a three-book series following the real-life career of Brad Schlerf, a perceptive and witty detective from Florida whose whole life has been dedicated to community and service.As Brad's detective career in Junction City, Kansas unfolds, so do the Cold Cases featured in this book. Join him on his journey that spans over 20 years to work through the crimes of one criminal family. A nail-biting emotional rollercoaster with an immersive writ...

The Atlanta Child Murders: Their Message Today About Education, Politics and Race Relations - Paperback

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by John Liebert (Author), Felecia Nace (Author)In The Atlanta Child Murders: Their Message Today About Education, Politics, and Race Relations, Dr. John Liebert and Dr. Felecia Nace examine the vulnerability of the victims of the Atlanta Child Murders by peeling back the layers of poverty many of the children endured. The book compares the vulnerability of the child victims forty years ago to the predatory behavior we witness in schools today by pharmaceutical, corporate, and political entiti...

I live here; learning to heal through embracing your own story - Paperback

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by Lori Ellen Poland (Author)In 1983, Lori Poland was an ordinary three-year-old girl playing in her Colorado front yard, when a strange man offered her candy from the open passenger door of his car. Four days later, Lori was found abandoned in the mountains after sexual abuse and trauma. She emerged whole but unaware of the ripple effects her abduction would cause in her life and the lives of those around her.I Live Here is an intimate tale of survival, triumph, and empowerment. This inspira...