Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2428
Book Description
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Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2428
Book Description
The Mob and the City
Author: C. Alexander HortisPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1616149248
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob. Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such as: * Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal underworld? * Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated? * What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade? * Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the 1930s? Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to power in the early-to-mid twentieth century.
The Experimental College
Author: Winslow Roper HatchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Senate Election, Expulsion and Censure Cases from 1789 to 1960
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Operina
Author: Ludovico degli ArrighiPublisher: Operina LLC
ISBN: 1934227188
Category : Calligraphy
Languages : it
Pages : 38
Book Description
Cousin Susannah
Author: Hazel HuckerPublisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312139506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Unmarried and pregnant with the child of her aristocratic employer, Susanah Trotter, a young governess, marries ambitious curate Sedley Stacey, but her new life is threatened by her feelings for her former lover
Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction
Author: Jerome H. DelamaterPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This collection of essays explores classic detective fiction from a variety of contemporary viewpoints. Among the diverse perspectives are those which interrogate how the genre reflects social and cultural attitudes and interpret the role of the detective as arbiter of "truth".
Fatal Decree
Author: H. Terrell GriffinPublisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 160809071X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author Serial killer loose on Longboat Key When a serial killer shows up on Longboat Key after a twelve-year absence, Matt Royal is stymied. The first woman killed on Longboat Key has ties to a secretive government agency for which Matt's best friend, Jock Algren, works. Was this a coincidence or was she a targeted kill? Matt's friend, Longboat Key detective Jennifer Diane (J.D.) Duncan, investigates the murders—but also seems to be a target of the killer. Why? And where has the killer been for the past twelve years? And why has he come to Longboat Key when his earlier kills were all in Miami? The mystery deepens when Guatemalan gangbangers try to kill Matt and J.D. and suspicions grow that Mexican drug cartels are somehow involved. The director of Jock's agency orders him to do whatever is necessary to find the killer because of the death of the woman with connections to the agency. Will Jock simply take out the murderer or allow J.D. and the law to arrest, try, and convict the bad guys? Matt's life is further complicated by J.D.'s growing dissatisfaction with island living—and her thoughts of returning to Miami. Perfect for fans of John Sanford and Robert Crais While all of the novels in the Matt Royal Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Blood Island Wyatt's Revenge Bitter Legacy Collateral Damage Fatal Decree Found Chasing Justice Mortal Dilemma Vindication
Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon BaumannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.