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  • Masters of Paradise

    Organised Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas

    by Alan Block ...
    This is the story of organized crime's penetration of the islands and the corruption of its high officials during the time The Bahamas become politically independent of Great Britain. It describes secret U.S. Internal Revenue Service operations aimed at American criminals involved in Bahamian-based tax scams and similar crimes. Block paints a devastating picture of a symbiotic relationship among ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • East Side-West Side

    Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-50

    Based on primary source documents, this historical study establishes the interconnections between private violence and political, social, and economic life in New York from 1930-1950. By describing and analyzing both the social world and social system of organized crime, Block provides a new perspective, one based on racial and ethnic stereotypes. The book provides a penetrating look at one of the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Promise and the Dream

    The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy

    "A fascinating, elegiac account" of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era's most important leaders—from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit ( Chicago Tribune).With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path toward fulfilling its promise of liberty and justice for all. In The Promise and the Dream, Margolick examines their ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

    by Beverly Gage ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine and a New York Times ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Locking Up Our Own

    Crime and Punishment in Black America

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLong-listed for the National Book AwardLos Angeles Times Book Prizes FinalistNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year"A beautiful book, written so well, that gives us the origins and consequences of where we are . . . I can see why [the Pulitzer prize] was awarded." —Trevor Noah, The Daily ShowF... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Holding the Line

    Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department

    "Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining - in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired. I walked this tightrope for two and a half years. Eventually, the rope snapped." - from Holding the Line"A cautionary tale about how political forces can undermine the quest for justice." - ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bobby Kennedy

    The Making of a Liberal Icon

    by Larry Tye ...
    “A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [the] most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”—Joe Scarborough, The Washington PostNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine. Larry Tye appears on CNN’s American Dynasties: The Kennedys.“We are in Larry Tye’s debt for bringing back to life the young ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Burglary

    The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

    by Betty Medsger ...
    **INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS (IRE) BOOK AWARD WINNER • The story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.“Impeccably ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kennedy and King

    The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights

    A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick" Kennedy and King is an unqualified masterpiece of historical narrative . . . A landmark achievement." -- Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Rosa ParksKennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and ... Read more

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  • Secret City

    The Hidden History of Gay Washington

    The New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2022Named one of Vanity Fair's “Best Books of 2022”“Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.”**—**George StephanopoulosWashington, D.C., has always b... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Power to the People

    The World of the Black Panthers

    This pictorial history tells the story of the revolutionary Black Panther Party in the words of its co-founder, Bobby Seale.Coming toward the end of America's epic Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party was one of the most creative and influential responses to racism and inequality in American history. They advocated armed self-defense to counter police brutality, and initiated a program ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demagogue

    The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

    by Larry Tye ...
    The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearingsIn the long history of American demagogues, from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use “McCarthyism” to stand for ... Read more

    $7.49 USD