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Barbarians At the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Bryan Burrough & John Helyar [Burrough, Bryan & Helyar, John]

An hour after Kravis lofted his $125 million offer, Dick Beattie was on the phone to Bob Millard at Shearson. “Have you heard about our offer?” Beattie wondered. Millard passed ...
( Category: Consolidation & Merger March 26,2014 )
Libricide by Rebecca Knuth
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Knuth

The Serbs were interested in destroying items that, simply by existing, confirmed the history of Muslim residency in Bosnia. Typifying Bosnia's Muslims as converted Serbs, and thus traitors against Serbdom, ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
Into That Silent Sea - Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 by Colin Burgess
epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Colin Burgess [Burgess, Colin]

These views reflected some of the considerable unease felt by many outside of the Soviet Union. Though there was undoubtedly a degree of admiration for their historic achievement, it came ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 26,2014 )
First Man - The Life of Neil Armstrong by J R Hansen
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:J R Hansen [Hansen, J R]

There was no denying the brilliance of Mailer’s exposé. Yet Mailer really did not care about Armstrong, the man, on a personal level, only as a vessel into which the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 26,2014 )
Goddess of the Market by Burns Jennifer
epub |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Burns, Jennifer [Burns, Jennifer]

CHAPT ER EIGHT Love Is Exception Making $by the middle of the 1960s Rand’s popularity among young conservatives, her open support of Goldwater, and the continued appeal of her books ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | | Author:Leanda de Lisle

Stokes could not have imagined how Frances’s reputation would be traduced in centuries to come; and nor could her daughters. Mary Grey was comforted in her loss by the extended ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Mary Boleyn by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

There have been claims that Henry VIII fathered other bastard children, although only one is based on compelling evidence.71 It has often been said that Henry would have had good ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell by Lapsley Phil
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Lapsley, Phil [Lapsley, Phil]

Fifteen PRANKS LIKE THE FLAP of a butterfly’s wings causing a hurricane half a world away, the ripples of unintended consequences from Ron Rosenbaum’s “Secrets of the Little Blue Box” ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies by Lewis Jon E
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Lewis, Jon E. [Lewis, Jon E.]

• Did the Klan sponsor the assassination of Martin Luther King? • Was the Klan behind the Oklahoma City bombings in 1995? • Did the Klan, as some believe, inject ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-10-05 | Author:Peter Vronsky [Vronsky, Peter]

POWER-REASSURANCE KILLERS With power-reassurance killers, the rape is again planned while the murder is not. The main motivation of these types of killers is the realization of a seduction and ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 26,2014 )
El Narco by Ioan Grillo
epub |eng | | Author:Ioan Grillo

I drive through Medellín to meet a sicario. It is a pleasant city. A cool breeze keeps the mountain valley fresh. Airy plazas are illuminated with sculptures of comically plump ...
( Category: Criminology March 26,2014 )
Cosa Nostra by John Dickie
epub |nld | 2010-12-31 | Author:John Dickie [Dickie, John]

Toen de Drooglegging eindelijk werd afgeschaft, had Amerika vier jaar achter de rug van de Grote Depressie in de jaren dertig. De georganiseerde misdaad overleefde die overgang niet in de ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 26,2014 )
The Murder of Jim Fisk by H. W. Brands
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

New York receives the news of Fisk’s death with mixed emotions. Horace Greeley lectures Wall Street and America for having produced such a sorry specimen of humanity. “Fiction furnishes few ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Douglas Perry

13 A Modest Little Housewife On Thursday, May 22, the bailiff in Judge William Lindsay’s courtroom said the words everyone had been waiting to hear: “Beulah Annan.” The defendant, her ...
( Category: Women in History March 26,2014 )
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie MAnsfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age by H. W. Brands
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

New York receives the news of Fisk’s death with mixed emotions. Horace Greeley lectures Wall Street and America for having produced such a sorry specimen of humanity. “Fiction furnishes few ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )

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