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Windmill
Pub. Date
2010
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This novel, from the author of 'The Black Dahlia', is set in 1958, with America about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until John F. Kennedy's presidency. The story features three men allied to the makers and shakers of the era.
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Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017
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The United States of America is in the midst of a deepening crisis for their democracy. After the strangest election cycle in modern American history it is important that the grave threats to the American way of life that were glaringly revealed in this campaign are addressed. In The Assault on Reason, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore examines how faith in the power of reason - the idea that citizens can govern themselves...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
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Hillary Clinton is running for president as an advocate of women and girls,' but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up - until now. This expose reveals how Bill and Hillary Clinton systematically abused women and others - sexually, physically, and psychologically - in their scramble for power and wealth. In this book, New York Times bestselling author Roger Stone and researcher and alternative historian Robert...
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Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Isis
Pub. Date
2015
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It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J. Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the damned and the soon-to-be damned. Wayne Tedrow Jr: assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all sides, loyal to none. Dwight Holly: Hoover's enforcer and hellish conspirator in terrible crimes. As Hoover's power wanes, his destiny lurches towards Richard Nixon and self-annihilation....
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Underworld U.S.A volume 2
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Isis
Pub. Date
2015
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Dallas, November 2nd, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of a cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era migled with cops, killers,...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023
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Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco, one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film-has long been lost to the annals of history. In 'Crooked', Nathan Masters restores this story of murderers, con artists, secret lovers, spies, bootleggers, and corrupt politicians to its full, page-turning...
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William Collins
Pub. Date
2018
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By Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller comes an exclusive book uncovering the truth behind the Kremlin's attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast allegiance to Vladimir Putin and Robert Mueller's ensuing investigation of the president and those close to him. It has been called the political crime of the century: a foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader,...
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Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
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In the autumn of 2015, the founders of the US political research firm Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, were hired by a Republican presidential candidate to look into the records of Donald Trump. What began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits and sketchy overseas projects soon took a darker turn, as they became the first to uncover Trump's disturbing ties to the Kremlin and the crimes that since have plagued his presidency....