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Book Review: True Crime: An American Anthology edited by Harold Schechter
350 years worth of the most fascinating American crimes
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Book Review: Held Hostage: A Serial Bank Robber’s Road to Redemption by Ken Cooper
The story of one mans transformation from adrenaline addicted bank robber to leader of a prison ministry to inmates.
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Book Review: Honor Thy Father by Gay Talese
The story of the son of a Mafia don growing up in the insular world occupied by the Bonanno family.
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Book Review: Columbine: A True Crime Story, A Victim, The Killers and the Nation's Search For Answers by Jeff Kass
For its depth of study, breadth of knowledge, or eerie, grim application, it's hard to imagine a more forcible analysis.
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Book Review: The Lennon Prophecy - A New Examination of the Death Clues of the Beatles by Joseph Niezgoda
The Five Stages of the reader's feelings toward this author: 1. Disbelief 2. Contempt 3. Exasperation 4. Exhaustion 5. Anger
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Blu-ray Review: Zodiac (2-Disc Director's Cut)
Likely to be in the discussion when critics gather to determine the best film of the current decade.
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Book Review: The Origin of Organized Crime in America - The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931 by David Critchley
Perhaps the most encompassing history of the Mafia’s development in America.
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Book Review: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Ultimately readers are given tons of facts to digest and little on character development.
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Book Review: Charlatan - America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
The self-aggrandizing goat-gland king must be dethroned. And it’s up to "the great quack buster of his day ... the hellhound on his trail."
Would William Burns, Clarence Darrow, and D.W. Griffith "permanently transform the nature of American thought, politics, celebrity, and culture"?
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