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61) American hustle
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito, mayor of Camden, is the passionate,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A tale of Gilded Age corruption -- gold-looting, court-buying, and good old fashioned venality -- that extended from the new frontier of Alaska to the Oval Office"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 285 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former Secret Service official explores what he sees as "the personal and political dysfunction of the Clinton White House, so consumed by scandal and destroying their enemies, real and imagined, ... that governing was an afterthought."
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A revelation of Bill and Hillary Clinton's last days as the First Family discusses President Clinton's controversial pardons and his relationship with fugitive Marc Rich, and Hillary's solicitation of gifts and partaking of the White House china.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 652 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper," a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.
67) A delicate truth
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xi, 467 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning...
70) American dynasty
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
397 p.
Language
English
Description
Aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the house of Bush. Includes index.
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1930s Omaha, ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely teams up with local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik to take down the man vying for city commissioner. This moody crime story with a high body count melds fact and fiction into an unforgettable tale of danger and deceit"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
The Cold War did not end in 1991, it merely evolved, with Putin and his hand-selected group of oligarchs and Mafia kingpins ensnaring Trump more than twenty years ago with the massive bailout of a string of sensational Trump hotel and casino failures in Atlantic City. Unger methodically traces the deep-rooted alliance between the highest echelons of American political operatives and the biggest players in the frightening underworld of the Russian...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Physical Desc
xiv, 336 pages : illustrations, 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names--businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just as Imperial Russia did in 1917 and as Soviet Russia did in 1991. The only questions are when, how violently, and with how much peril for the world. The U.S. election complicates everything, including: Putin's next land grab; Exploitations of the Arctic; Cyber-espionage; Putin and China... and many more crucial topics. An essential read for everybody bewildered and dismayed...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Donald Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump, examines America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A two- time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's eye-opening investigation of the so-called deep state. A recent poll found that 74 percent of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials is secretly manipulating or directing national policy. But does an American deep state really exist? This sweeping exploration of the intelligence community and FBI scandals of the past four decades--from Abscam to false intelligence...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Extended ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (540 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Forty years after a woman vanishes from a gathering of a powerful and secretive family, a journalist and a computer hacker are asked to solve the mystery of her disappearance; as Millenium magazine launches an investigation into a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders and must go on the run while Mikael tries to clear her name; as she lies in the hospital charged with three murders and Mikael works to prove her innocence, Lisbeth...
78) Infamy
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a former Army veteran suddenly murders a colonel in New York, he claims that he had to do it because he was being used in mind control experiments. Surprisingly, a top Wall Street criminal defense lawyer, one with ties to the White House, decides to defend the killer, arguing that his client suffered from post-traumatic stress from his tours in Afghanistan and that it's his patriotic duty to assist him. As New York District Attorney Roger "Butch"...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published in March, 1991, The Firm was hailed by reviewers, booksellers, and readers alike, and soon became the number one bestseller across America. Now comes Grisham's equally gripping new novel: an unforgettable story that begins with the simultaneous assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. . . .