Dillinger's Wild Ride - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dillinger's Wild Ride write by Elliott J. Gorn. This book was released on 2011-09-29. Dillinger's Wild Ride available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Dillinger was one of the most famous and flamboyant celebrity outlaws, and this book illuminates the significnace of his tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy of crime and violence, and the transformation of America during the Great Depression.
Norco '80
Norco '80 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Norco '80 write by Peter Houlahan. This book was released on 2019-06-11. Norco '80 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 5 young men. 32 destroyed police vehicles. 1 spectacular bank robbery. This “cinematic” true crime story transports readers to the scene of one of the most shocking bank heists in U.S. history—a crime that’s almost too wild to be real (The New York Times Book Review). Norco ’80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men—led by an apocalyptic born–again Christian—attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement. Part action thriller and part courtroom drama, this Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime transports the reader back to the Southern California of the 1970s, an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, and soaring crime rates, with the threat of nuclear obliteration looming over it all. In this riveting true story, a group of landscapers transforms into a murderous gang of bank robbers armed to the teeth with military–grade weapons. Their desperate getaway turns the surrounding towns into war zones. And when it’s over, three are dead and close to twenty wounded; a police helicopter has been forced down from the sky, and thirty–two police vehicles have been completely demolished by thousands of rounds of ammo. The resulting trial shakes the community to the core, raising many issues that continue to plague society today: from the epidemic of post–traumatic stress disorder within law enforcement to religious extremism and the militarization of local police forces.
Let the People See
Let the People See - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Let the People See write by Elliott J. Gorn. This book was released on 2018-10-01. Let the People See available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's killers, Bryant's husband and his half-brother, were eventually acquitted on technicalities by an all-white jury despite overwhelming evidence. It seemed another case of Southern justice. Then details of what had happened to Till became public, which they did in part because Emmett's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted that his casket remain open during his funeral. The world saw the horror, and Till's story gripped the country and sparked outrage. Black journalists drove down to Mississippi and risked their lives interviewing townsfolk, encouraging witnesses, spiriting those in danger out of the region, and above all keeping the news cycle turning. It continues to turn. In 2005, fifty years after the murder, the FBI reopened the case. New papers and testimony have come to light, and several participants, including Till's mother, have published autobiographies. Using this new evidence and a broadened historical context, Elliott J. Gorn delves more fully than anyone has into how and why the story of Emmett Till still resonates, and always will. Till's murder marked a turning point, Gorn shows, and yet also reveals how old patterns of thought and behavior endure, and why we must look hard at them.
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep write by David K. Randall. This book was released on 2012-08-13. Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep. Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. Taking readers from military battlefields to children’s bedrooms, Dreamland shows that sleep isn't as simple as it seems. Why did the results of one sleep study change the bookmakers’ odds for certain Monday Night Football games? Do women sleep differently than men? And if you happen to kill someone while you are sleepwalking, does that count as murder? This book is a tour of the often odd, sometimes disturbing, and always fascinating things that go on in the peculiar world of sleep. You’ll never look at your pillow the same way again.
Miss Shumway Waves a Wand
Miss Shumway Waves a Wand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miss Shumway Waves a Wand write by James Hadley Chase. This book was released on 1944. Miss Shumway Waves a Wand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
