Author : Matt Hanley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1614236305
Check in on visits from Orville Wright, Casey Stengel, John Dillinger and JFK. Learn about the Aurora man who hired Abe Lincoln to defend his business and the police chief who solved the nations most gruesome crime. Discover what happened to the man who recorded a landmark blues song in Auroras tallest tower and how a boy born in the citys poorest neighborhood went on to play for the Chicago Bears in Matt Hanleys fascinating collection of stories from the City of Lights.
Author : W. Cleon Skousen
Publisher : Izzard Ink
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2014-05-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1630720593
Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America’s most notorious mobsters. True Stories from the Files of the FBI was written by W. Cleon Skousen under the direct supervision of Mr. Hoover himself. These first-hand accounts of actual "do or die" situations were used for decades to train thousands of FBI agents. In this riveting retelling of “G-men” arresting or killing perpetrators of the country’s most violent crimes, learn how the investigations led to clues for the Charles Lindbergh kidnapping case, the Kansas City Massacre, the raids by John Herbert Dillinger and his gang, “Killer” Kinnie Wagner's murder spree, and more. Reviews “True Stories from the Files of the FBI captures the history of landmark criminal cases with riveting, quick-read storytelling--a must for every crime reader's most wanted book list.” --Mark Singer, Founder of Chicago Crime Tours “True Stories from the Files of the FBI is an amazing book to read. A lot of history, a lot of detail, a lot to learn.” --Michael J. Thompson, AML
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 1924
Category : American literature
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Author : Diane A. Ladley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1614234124
The fascinating ghost stories behind Illinois’s “City of Cemeteries”—photos included! Aurora was the first Illinois city to have electric streetlights, but a dark history has resisted illumination as stubbornly as the chilly corner of the old roundhouse repels the summer heat . . . Learn why Aurora counts “City of Cemeteries” among its nicknames as Diane Ladley describes the nineteenth-century doctor suspected of trading bodies between his cancer center and a neighboring graveyard. Other eerie legends and strange stories revealed in this book include the marauding brave brought to justice in the Devil’s Cave by his own tribe, the sweet legacy of NFL great Walter Payton, and the elephants that saved a circus from a tornado.
Author : David McCracken
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 147662738X
Chuck Palahniuk, America's premier transgressive novelist, enjoys a tremendous readership. Yet he has not necessarily been embraced by critics or academics. His prose is considered vulgar by some, but his body of work addresses a core motivation of 21st-century life: individual self-empowerment. Palahniuk writes about what it means to be on the outside looking in, revising familiar narratives for a contemporary audience to get at the heart of the human condition--everyone wants a chance to win his or her fair share, no matter the cost. In Haunted, Snuff, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned and Invisible Monsters Remix, he confronts marginalization and disenfranchisement through parodies of various works--The Decameron, The Inferno, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, The Elephant Man--as well as Hollywood history, 1970s karate films and the porn industry. This comprehensive study of six novels refutes criticism that Palahniuk's goals are to shock and sensationalize.
Author : Kenneth W. Noe
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0817350640
A close study of one region of Appalachia that experienced economic vitality and strong sectionalism before the Civil War This book examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s, before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the railroad reoriented the economy of the region toward staple crops and slave labor. Thus, during the secession crisis, southwest Virginia broke with northwestern Virginia and embraced the Confederacy. Ironically, however, it was the railroad that brought waves of Union raiders to the area during the war
Author : Richard Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1493002325
This engaging, myth-busting series seeks new explanations for the ghost stories, outlaw tales, haunted places, and unsolved mysteries that shaped a state's identity.
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Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Carlton Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1429929405
***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** Kathleen Savio was married to Drew Peterson for eleven years before filing for divorce in 2003. The next year, she was found dead in her bathtub. Her drowning appeared to be an accident—and for years, no one had reason to question it. But when Peterson's next wife, Stacy—thirty years younger—went missing, the tough-talking and wise-cracking former Illinois cop came under suspicion.... With Stacy Peterson missing—and presumed dead—authorities exhumed Kathleen Savio's body, looking for answers. A new autopsy pointed to homicide, and a 2002 letter was revealed in which Savio wrote that Drew, "knows how to manipulate the system, and his next step is to take my children away. Or kill me instead." He was arrested for Kathleen's murder, and is a prime suspect in Stacy's disappearance, Peterson continues to protest his innocence. New York Times bestselling author Carlton Smith digs deep into the mystery behind the two Peterson wives—and sheds some light on one of the most complex crime cases in modern American history.
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Commerce
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