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Author: Duane Swierczynski Publisher: ISBN: 9780028643441 Category : Bank robberies Languages : en Pages : 0
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This Here's a Stick Up covers the history of bank robbing in America, from the days of the old West gunslingers like Jesse James and the Dalton Gang, to the infamous bank robbers of the Great Depression (Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Baby Face Nelson) to the infamous Stopwatch Gang, who ripped off a series of Los Angeles banks wearing masks of U.S. presidents. (Their exploits were portrayed in the Keanu Reeves moviePoint Break). From the first heister to scribble a demand note to the first cyber criminal to pull off a heist using a laptop and a modem, this book will have it all, and then some. Author Duane Swierczynski will be utilizing information culled from actual FBI files from the 1930s up until today. Additional chapters will include a rundown of the 100 biggest hauls in bank robbing history; another chapter will feature what you should do if you find yourself in a bank that's being robbed; still another chapter will chronicle the 25 oddest bank robberies in history. The book will be written in a breezy, irreverent, and often humorous style and will have much in common with such bestsellers as The World's Dumbest Criminals and The Worst Case Scenario books.
Author: Duane Swierczynski Publisher: ISBN: 9780028643441 Category : Bank robberies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This Here's a Stick Up covers the history of bank robbing in America, from the days of the old West gunslingers like Jesse James and the Dalton Gang, to the infamous bank robbers of the Great Depression (Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Baby Face Nelson) to the infamous Stopwatch Gang, who ripped off a series of Los Angeles banks wearing masks of U.S. presidents. (Their exploits were portrayed in the Keanu Reeves moviePoint Break). From the first heister to scribble a demand note to the first cyber criminal to pull off a heist using a laptop and a modem, this book will have it all, and then some. Author Duane Swierczynski will be utilizing information culled from actual FBI files from the 1930s up until today. Additional chapters will include a rundown of the 100 biggest hauls in bank robbing history; another chapter will feature what you should do if you find yourself in a bank that's being robbed; still another chapter will chronicle the 25 oddest bank robberies in history. The book will be written in a breezy, irreverent, and often humorous style and will have much in common with such bestsellers as The World's Dumbest Criminals and The Worst Case Scenario books.
Author: Tom Powers Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan ISBN: 9781933272597 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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In Michigan, the roar in the "Roaring Twenties" was the deafening blast of a sawed-off shotgun or the staccato thunder of a Thompson submachine gun punctuating a bank robbery. In post-WWI Michigan, a plague of ruthless desperadoes, better armed and driving faster cars than the police, cut a deadly swath across the state ranked eighth in the country for bank robberies. Tom Powers uncovers a violent and forgotten era in Michigan in 23 riveting chapters. The Wild West didn't die with the closing of the frontier; it came to Michigan in the 1920s and 1930s.
Author: Randol Contreras Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520273370 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.
Author: Ollystudio Limited Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1780675291 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 88
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This is the first book to look at an increasingly popular form of street art: the paste-up or 'wheatie'. Many street artists don’t graffiti or stencil any more but use pre-prepared paper images that can be taken down, thereby avoiding a vandalism charge. The book shows the work of 20 artists, with photographs of their art in situ, a brief profile, and a fold-out paste-up. The fold-out pages are perforated so they can easily be removed. Some of the paste-ups are laser cut with attaching tags so they can be popped out. There's also an introductory interview with cult street artists Sten & Lex.
Author: Robert Scheer Publisher: Bold Type Books ISBN: 1568586213 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 302
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In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story -- the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms -- Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. This is a story largely forgotten or overlooked by the mainstream media, who wasted more than two decades with their boosterish coverage of Wall Street. Scheer argues that the roots of the disaster go back to the free-market propaganda of the Reagan years and, most damagingly, to the bipartisan deregulation of the banking industry undertaken with the full support of "progressive" Bill Clinton. In fact, if this debacle has a name, Scheer suggests, it is the "Clinton Bubble," that era when the administration let its friends on Wall Street write legislation that razed decades of robust financial regulation. It was Wall Street and Democratic Party darling Robert Rubin along with his clique of economist super-friends -- Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, and a few others -- who inflated a giant real estate bubble by purposely not regulating the derivatives market, resulting in the pain and hardship millions are experiencing now. The Great American Stickup is both a brilliant telling of the story of the Clinton financial clique and the havoc it wrought -- informed by whistleblowers such as Brooksley Born, who goes on the record for Scheer -- and an unsparing anatomy of the American business and political class. It is also a cautionary tale: those who form the nucleus of the Clinton clique are now advising the Obama administration.
Author: Robert Scheer Publisher: Bold Type Books ISBN: 1568584342 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 302
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Asserts that Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, Phil Gramm and others colluded in the fundamental corruption of the U.S. economic system that led to the financial crisis and sounds the alarm over the Obama administration consulting some of these very same men to fix the problem they created. Original.
Author: M.T. Pope Publisher: M.T. Pope ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 208
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What happens when four high school friends use a man’s manhood and self-image as leverage for revenge? Well, meet Brandon, Washington, Carlen, and Gary - all gay high school juniors at Jefferson High School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The four boys stick together through the good and the bad. But when they become fed up with being misunderstood and mistreated, they decide that payback is in order. One day they do the unthinkable - they mask up and kidnap a fellow student and tormentor and “stick him up”. They record the stick up and threaten exposure if he ever speaks about it. After this successful stick up, they become greedy and decide to throw in getting some free booty and loot. In their last stick up involving a local high school drug dealer, the boys hit a few snags and things come to a nasty head. Did they do one stick up too many or will they find a way out and ride off into the sunset? Stick-Up Boys is about taking revenge into your own hands and the consequences that come with it.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drug addiction Languages : en Pages : 416
Author: Duane Swierczynski
Author: Duane Swierczynski
Author: Tom Powers
Author: Randol Contreras
Author: Ollystudio Limited
Author: Robert Scheer
Author: Christopher Schwarz
Author: Robert Scheer
Author: M.T. Pope
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Author: Egerton Smith