New York: William Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (201), 2011. First edition - A book which offers an "intimate view of the world of organized crime - and law enforcement - that made Bulger m the defining Irish American gangster. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger - the brother of influential Massachusetts senator Billy Bulger - was often romanticized as a Robin Hood-like thief and protector. While he was functioning as the de facto mob boss of New England, Bulger was also serving as a Top Echelon informant for the FBI, covertly feeding local prosecutors information about other mob figures - while using their cover to cleverly eliminate his rivals, reinforce his own power,…
New York: William Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (201), 2011. First edition - A book which offers an "intimate view of the world of organized crime - and law enforcement - that made Bulger m the defining Irish American gangster. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger - the brother of influential Massachusetts senator Billy Bulger - was often romanticized as a Robin Hood-like thief and protector. While he was functioning as the de facto mob boss of New England, Bulger was also serving as a Top Echelon informant for the FBI, covertly feeding local prosecutors information about other mob figures - while using their cover to cleverly eliminate his rivals, reinforce his own power, and protect himself from prosecution. Then, in 2011, he was arrested in southern California and returned to Boston, where he was tried and convicted of racketeering and murder." Appendices, photographs. 421 pp.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - A new investigation of the siege of Sidney Street where Russian anarchists/gunmen were hiding after a botched robbery that left three policemen dead, and the murder of a Russian on Clapham Common at the same time - one which links these crimes. Based on documentary and eyewitness material, and on police files not available to previous historians. Illustrated with photographs. 246 pp. plus colophon and one pp publisher ads.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some foxing to the back cover of the dj and edges of the textblock, offsetting to endpapers, but a straight, tight copy with a bright dust jacket.)
New York: Summit Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kahn was two years old in 1944 when her father, a Jew and a French Resistance fighter, was murdered by Nazi Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon.' "Forty-three years later, as chief political reporter for the magazine Le Point , she was assigned to cover Barbie's trial. Performing a balancing act between the roles of detached journalist and grief-stricken victim's daughter, Kahn skillfully interweaves courtroom drama, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, an account of Barbie's sordid career path and the wrenching story of her parents' ordeal. Her mother, sent to Auschwitz, was rescued, a near-skeleton, at the war's end. . . Kahn provides shocking detail on how U.S. intelligence bureaucrats…
New York: Summit Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kahn was two years old in 1944 when her father, a Jew and a French Resistance fighter, was murdered by Nazi Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon.' "Forty-three years later, as chief political reporter for the magazine Le Point , she was assigned to cover Barbie's trial. Performing a balancing act between the roles of detached journalist and grief-stricken victim's daughter, Kahn skillfully interweaves courtroom drama, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, an account of Barbie's sordid career path and the wrenching story of her parents' ordeal. Her mother, sent to Auschwitz, was rescued, a near-skeleton, at the war's end. . . Kahn provides shocking detail on how U.S. intelligence bureaucrats protected Barbie after the war and how the CIA helped him escape to Bolivia in 1951." (Publisher's Weekly) Translated by Anna Cancogni. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-671658832.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1993. First edition - Nordan's fourth book - a novel set in the South in the 1950s - one that follows the "crooked paths of righteous racism" (although not a retelling of the story of Emmett Till, this novel had its roots in Nordan's memories of the trial - in a neighboring town in the Mississippi Delta - of 2 white men for Till's murder.) 290 pp.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. First edition - A defense lawyer's account of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing trial. "On a snowy day in February 1993, a massive car bomb nearly toppled the World Trade Center. Four Middle Eastern men were quickly arrested and charged with the crime. Precht was a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society Federal Defender Division in Manhattan, handling routine cases as a public defender. He was surprised to be appointed defense attorney to the chief suspect, Mohammad Salameh, and challenged as never before by the media circus that this major terrorism trial would prove to be. The events and personalities of the trial make for gripping reading, but equally compelling are…
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. First edition - A defense lawyer's account of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing trial. "On a snowy day in February 1993, a massive car bomb nearly toppled the World Trade Center. Four Middle Eastern men were quickly arrested and charged with the crime. Precht was a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society Federal Defender Division in Manhattan, handling routine cases as a public defender. He was surprised to be appointed defense attorney to the chief suspect, Mohammad Salameh, and challenged as never before by the media circus that this major terrorism trial would prove to be. The events and personalities of the trial make for gripping reading, but equally compelling are Prechts observations on the forces arrayed against fair trials for accused terrorists." Illustrated with photographs. Notes, suggested reading. xi, 178 pp.
WHERE THE BODIES WERE BURIED: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him.
THE GASLIGHT MURDERS: The Saga of Sidney Street and the Scarlet 'S'.
WHY MY FATHER DIED: A Daughter Confronts Her Family's Past at the Trial of Klaus Barbie.
WOLF WHISTLE.
DEFENDING MOHAMMAD: Justice on Trial.
