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  • Dirty Phenix

    Carnal Knowledge, #1

    door HL Arledge ...
    Serie Boek 1 - Carnal Knowledge
    This book builds on the public domain writings of journalists Edwin Strickland and Gene Wortsman, leveraging their research to support information provided to journalist H. L. Arledge in interviews with former residents of Phenix City and entertainers working in Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana, among them: Stacey Lawrence, Kitty West, Suzanne Robbins, Blaze Starr, Frieda LaBreche, and Evelyn West. ... Meer lezen

    9,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

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  • Devil in the Grove

    Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

    door Gilbert King ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • Chasing History

    A Kid in the Newsroom

    door Carl Bernstein ...
    The New York Times BestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital—a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of ... Meer lezen

    9,21 €

  • Convicting the Innocent

    Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice

    door Stanley Cohen ...
    A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written . . . The Wrong Men is a gem.” Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorneyEvery day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives-either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from ... Meer lezen

    19,00 €

  • The Lynching

    The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

    door Laurence Leamer ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young ... Meer lezen

    8,99 €

  • Solitary

    door Albert Woodfox ...
    "An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States." — New York TimesFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardSolitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Assassination of Fred Hampton

    How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther

    door Jeffrey Haas ...
    On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancée. She described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, "He's still alive." She then heard two shots. A second officer said, "He's good and dead now." She looked at Jeff and asked, "What can you do?"Fifty years later, Haas ... Meer lezen

    11,25 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • No Place Like Murder

    True Crime in the Midwest

    door Janis Thornton ...
    "This engrossing collection of historical Midwest murders reads like a thriller. True crime at its best. I couldn't put it down." —Susan Furlong, author of the Bone Gap Travellers novelsA modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Emmett Till

    The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

    Serie series Fannie Lou Hamer Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
    Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision. By all accounts, it is the definitive account of the case. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American ... Meer lezen

    7,94 €

  • The Mob and Me

    Wiseguys and the Witness Protection Program

    This revealing first-person narrative, by one of the founders of the Witness Protection Program and a personal protector to more than five hundred informants, offers an eye-opening, dead-on authentic perspective on the safeguard institution. How did law enforcement’s frustration with the criminal underworld and a serpentine series of hit-or-miss rules and mistakes give rise to one of the most ... Meer lezen

    17,88 €

  • A Complicated Woman

    (South Carolina, Notorious USA)

    door Caitlin Rother ...
    The latest in the New York Times Bestselling Notorious USA series...South Carolina, where racial strife and righteous, heavily-armed indignation leads to murder. New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother brings readers compilation of crime stories from this former Confederate state: the first woman in South Carolina to go to the electric chair after a vengeful feud over a dead calf turned ... Meer lezen

    2,78 €

  • Devils Walking

    Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s

    Devils Walking stands as an important milestone in the ongoing struggle to create justice from truth, and perhaps even reconciliation in a nation that must collectively move in this direction or face an uncertain future.”—David Ridgen, Canadian filmmaker and director of award-winning documentary Mississippi Cold CaseAfter midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American ... Meer lezen

    18,15 €