Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:John Buntin

FOR DECADES, police departments had enjoyed wide latitude in how they went about apprehending criminal suspects. In 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that evidence improperly or illegally obtained ...
( Category: Criminology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:John Buntin

FOR DECADES, police departments had enjoyed wide latitude in how they went about apprehending criminal suspects. In 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that evidence improperly or illegally obtained ...
( Category: Criminology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-06-08 | Author:James Ellroy

BECAUSE THE NIGHT 331 almost taste the blood. And after a while, his nights were spent not listening, but cringing in anticipation of coming impacts. Lack of sleep drew Lloyd ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Kenneth Slawenski

—John Updike, 19741 In creating the intimacy between Holden Caulfield and readers of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger employed the lesson taught to him by Whit Burnett in 1939 ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Erik Larson

BOLIVAR POINT The Lost Train ABOUT NOON ON Saturday, two trains converged on Galveston, one from the north, the other from the east. The first train belonged to the Galveston, ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

* * * * McCarthy was after William Bundy, a member of the CIA’S Board of National Estimates and Dean Acheson’s son-in-law. Bundy, it seemed, had contributed $400 to the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tom Brokaw

Martha Settle Putney Her all-black unit of medical technicians was to be housed near Gardner General Hospital, not too far from Chicago’s tony Lake Shore Drive. The Army had built ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio

9 HOLLYWOOD I met Jerome Calloway for the first time during the early 1970s, on the set of a spy-themed TV show. The show was popular in the late 1960s ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category: Civil & Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:King, Dean [King, Dean]

Portraits from the February 17, 1888, Louisville Courier-Journal, of (in order from the top) Randall McCoy and the defendants Wall Hatfield, L. D. McCoy, Selkirk McCoy; Doc, Sam, and Plyant ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2008-10-02 | Author:Jesse Macy

CHAPTER IX. BOOKS AS ANTI-SLAVERY WEAPONS Whittier offered up "thanks for the fugitive slave law; for it gave occasion for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'" Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe had been mistress ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tony Horwitz

FROM HIS OLIVE SKIN and unusual surname, I’d guessed that the pharmacist Joe Gerache was of southern European extraction. But when I arrived at his home in suburban Vicksburg, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Linda Hunt

William and Mary Bryan’s home in Lincoln, Nebraska, decorated for a celebration during the Presidential election year of 1896. Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections, RG3198:22-6. Detail of this ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )