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Dutch Schultz made the big time of racketeers when he entered the business of speakeasies. From a respectable Bronx family Schultz served time on Roosevelt Island for a minor offense that he committ……続きを見る

Raymond Patriarca became the head of a powerful five state crime syndicate which reached throughout New England. By 1938 Patriarca had already served a stint in the Atlanta Federal Prison. In his fo……続きを見る

Nudism in New York became a contentious issue after a group of mixed sex nude bathers were found swimming and exercising in a Manhattan gymnasium in 1934. An anonymous tip was sent by a woman to the……続きを見る

SINS OF THE PRESS blows the lid off the Boston Globe's 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting about sex abuse and the Catholic Church. While the Globe would want you believe that its paper's reportin……続きを見る

Leon Czolgosz was inspired to shoot and kill President William McKinley by Emma Goldman and other anarchists. At the beginning of the 20th Century leaders of France and Italy had been murdered by an……続きを見る

“Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It’s Superman!” Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural signif……続きを見る

Why are there so many misfortunes happening in the African-American community. They have one of the highest crime rates in this country. The death totals mount up every year. So now beginning to res……続きを見る

Since glasnost began, Russia's most eminent historians have taken advantage of new archival access and the end of censorship and conformity to reassess and reinterpret their history. Through this pr……続きを見る

I believe that the successful plot to murder President John F. Kennedy took shape in New Orleans during the summer of 1963. It was then that W. Guy Banister ran a detective office where malcontents,……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: Russland, Länder der ehemal. Sowjetunion, Note: 1,30, Universität Passau (Philosophische Fakultät - Lehrstuh……続きを見る

Jacob Little Augie Orgen and Jack Legs Diamond controlled the garment industry racket in New York City for a time. Legs came to Little Augie with his brother, Eddie, who was employed by the East Sid……続きを見る

Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects essays that study contemporary mutations of public and private space in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical and method……続きを見る

Every year, more than thirty-five million people from all over the world visit Las Vegas; only two million call the city home. Everyday Las Vegas takes a close look at the lives of those who live in……続きを見る

This book focuses on understanding the experiences of faculty members of various races/ethnicities and genders and their classroom encounters with students in the United States. It illustrates some ……続きを見る

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analy……続きを見る

This book tells the story of how the very idea of two cultures-the so-called divorce between science and the humanities-was a creation of the modern world-system. The contributors, working from a co……続きを見る

A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist teams up with a noted political commentator. For everyone who loves to hate the Bush administration and is ready to laugh about it! Ambushed! recounts t……続きを見る

Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays, a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays b……続きを見る

This revised edition of Seeking Security in an Insecure World provides a thorough, accessible introduction to contemporary security studies. All chapters are updated and a wide range of new topics a……続きを見る

Horrific Traumata shares the stories of persons whose meaning, hope, and faith were ripped from them by others or traumatic events and who live with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Since the Vietnam……続きを見る

Localizing Global Finance illustrates that private equity has become a more significant component of China's economy based on a pattern of new domestic elites importing and implementing a largely We……続きを見る

This book is a compilation of personal, commercial, government, and military original documents allowing an up close and personal look into the private and public life of John F. Kennedy 35th presid……続きを見る

Joe Adonis, aka Joe Doto, was involved with a number of hoodlums in the New York fur industry, men who were in trouble with the police and sought a means of alleviating this. On one occasion they sh……続きを見る

Johnny Torrio is sometimes seen as a footnote to Al Capone who is most often associated with the heyday of Chicago criminal activity. Yet it was Torrio who moved from Italy to New York to Chicago wh……続きを見る

A Smithsonian Book of the Year A Nature Book of the Year “Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.” ーSmithsonian In 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the……続きを見る

Examining some of the huge challenges that liberal States faced in the decade after 11 September 2001, the chapters in this book address three aspects of the impact of more than a decade of military……続きを見る

Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsati……続きを見る

Jacob Gurrah Shapiro was a Mafia enforcer in the fashion fur industry. He worked as a lieutenant to the notorious Louis Lepke Buchalter who was himself executed at Ossining Prison (Sing Sing) in 194……続きを見る

Jimmy Hoffa, formerly Teamsters Union President, disappeared suddenly without a trace in the summer of 1975. My e-book looks at the circumstances of this event and points an accusing finger at two m……続きを見る

My e-book considers possible connections between the murder of gambler Arnold Rothstein, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago of 1929, and other gangland slayings. Rothstein's was killed in N……続きを見る