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Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings ……続きを見る

Nicholas Tolentino was a Lucchese family soldier most closely associated with narcotics/heroin trafficking. "Big Nose Nick" was arrested for his part in two 1950s drug rings. Both were taken down by……続きを見る

Salvatore Maneri was an intriguing Mafioso, a man who worked closely with Genovese and Lucchese family syndicates. Maneri was part of the Lucky Luciano drug ring that operated out of Luciano's luxur……続きを見る

Joseph Ragone was a Genovese family soldier who was especially close to Mafia turncoat/informant Joseph "Joe Cargo" Valachi. Valachi was the first former mobster to publicly testify about his associ……続きを見る

Vincent "Big Vinnie" Teresa was the #3 man in the New England Mafia until 1969. When the Mafia failed to protect him and his family, he turned government informant. In 1973 a Miami jury acquitted ga……続きを見る

Pietro Licata was a traditional Bonanno family caporegime. He shunned drug trafficking and was based in the Knickerbocker Avenue, Bushwick section of Brooklyn. His primary criminal activities were l……続きを見る

Now updated to include the 2018 midterms and previewing the coming 2020 election cycle, Defying the Odds provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including……続きを見る

Enrico "Harry" Tantillo was a Genovese family Mafioso who was heavily involved in drug trafficking from 1945 until the late 1960s. In the mid-1940s Tantillo was linked to a multinational drug ring t……続きを見る

Joseph Zito Sr. was a Mafioso who was mostly involved in upstate New York gambling ventures. A criminal turned FBI government informant, Zito sometimes wore an electronic device to assist federal ag……続きを見る

Joseph Colozzo was a Gambino syndicate capo who was closely affiliated with the Brooklyn waterfront dock workers. In 1951 Colozzo was accused of holding a gun on International Longshoremen's Associa……続きを見る

Barney Kotler was a lynchpin in the Harry Gross bookmaking syndicate that flourished in New York City in the late 1940s and 1950s. Kings County District Attorney Miles F. McDonald was incremental in……続きを見る

How do middle-class Americans become aware of distant social problems and act against them? US colleges, congregations, and seminaries increasingly promote immersion travel as a way to bridge global……続きを見る

The Lucchese family was a bastion of criminal activity on Long Island in the late 1960s. Its members were highly immersed in gambling, loansharking and car theft. My e-book profiles many of its lead……続きを見る

Paul Correale was a Lucchese family caporegime (captain) who was an intricate player in the crime syndicate's narcotics and gambling operations. My e-book profiles the bust of a policy ring that gro……続きを見る

John Wiley is on a late-in-life mission to throw a safety net to teenagers he believes are on the road to a lifetime of poverty -- kids who feel a disconnect at school, who come from dysfunctional f……続きを見る

The Mafia began making inroads into Sullivan County via paper unions that threatened the livelihoods of legitimate Teamsters unions. Later the son of Colombo syndicate boss Joseph Colombo Sr., teame……続きを見る

Anthony Augello was a Colombo family soldier during an era of strife between the Persico and Gallo factions of hoodlums. Joey Gallo's murder at Umberto's Clam House was only one of a series of gangl……続きを見る

Frank Pasqua was a Gambino family soldier who was intricately connected to the narcotics heroin trade in New York City and Chicago. In 1968 Pasqua pleaded innocent in federal court in New York to ch……続きを見る

The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and h……続きを見る

Jack Scarpulla was a Long Island City butcher who was indicted for bootlegging in 1939. The illegal liquor still operated in Shrub Oak, New York. A Gambino family associate, Scarpulla was heavily im……続きを見る

My e-book looks at multiple cases of amateur photographers being busted for smut, i.e. nude photos, porn films, etc. One of the cases examines a scorned woman whose boyfriend refused to return nude ……続きを見る

Charles "The Blade" Tourine was a Genovese caporegime who was intricately tied to gambling in Cuba, New York and Washington, D.C. I've uncovered an early incident from 1935 that links Tourine to poo……続きを見る

Jack Zuta was essentially the comptroller of the North Side Chicago mob led by Bugs Moran. The primary rival to Al Capone's syndicate dominance in Chicago of the 1920s, Moran's gang had fallen on po……続きを見る

Frankie Roche was a Westfield, Massachusetts mobster who first encountered noteworthy trouble with police in October 1974. He is best known as the assassin of Massachusetts Mafia boss Angelo "Big Al……続きを見る

Samuel "Sammy Shell" Schlitten was a gambler and underworld associate who was closely associated with the Gambino and Genovese crime syndicates. By 1931 New York newspapers mentioned Schlitten's rol……続きを見る

Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practice, Ninth Edition uses a speech-communication perspective to examine how elective politics contributes to our knowledge and understanding of th……続きを見る

Former Las Vegas blackjack dealer Michael "Mickey" Candela was a bookie for the Colombo Mafia. In the 1960s records discovered at his North Babylon home led to Candela becoming a government informan……続きを見る

Irene Brandt, a pretty blonde/brunette 20-year-old led a double life. Throughout the work week she was employed as a teller at the North Merrick branch of a Hempstead, Long Island bank. Three nights……続きを見る

At the end of the eighteenth century, Alexandria was a small unimposing town; less than a century later, the city had become a busy hub of Mediterranean commerce and Egypt’s master link to the inter……続きを見る

In this book fourteen large metropolitan economies are examined to show how industrial composition and jobs have changed in central cities and suburbs since 1970. Driven by the shift in emphasis fro……続きを見る