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23 produkter
Bullet or the Bribe
Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel
E-bok, 2003
702 kr
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For more than 20 years, the Cali cartel saturated U.S. streets with cocaine, ruining neighborhoods and lives while reaping millions in cash. Efforts to combat the influx of drugs from Colombia were often stymied by the careful organization and execution of the drug trade. Through the use of …
Raising Hell
Straight Talk from Investigative Journalists
Av Ron Chepesiuk, Haney Howell m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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In recent years, a new wave of investigative journalists have become prominent. Some relish being "politically incorrect" (David Brock, author of The Real Anita Hill); others methodically shatter cultural icons (Douglas Frantz's expose of Washington insider Clark Clifford); and still others have …
South Carolina in the Civil War
The Confederate Experience in Letters and Diaries
Av J. Edward Lee, Ron Chepesiuk
Häftad, 2004
384 kr
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Although modern authors continually produce important studies of the War Between the States, the firsthand accounts of those who were in the conflict remain the most valuable tools for understanding. This collection of letters and diaries provides glimpses into the lives of a diverse group of South …
Sixties Radicals, Then and Now
Candid Conversations with Those Who Shaped the Era
Häftad, 2007
376 kr
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Aroused by gains in civil rights and galvanized by the antiwar movement, radical leaders of the 1960s sought to make revolutionary changes in American society. Partly through their leadership, a generation was awakened by the call for a counterculture. That generation is now responsible for the …
War on Drugs
An International Encyclopedia
Inbunden, 1999
1027 kr
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Here is the whole story of the world of drugs—from the infamous Opium Wars to the legal availability of narcotics in the United States during the past century; from the unexpected boost given to illicit drugs by Prohibition to the great success of the French Connection.The global drug trade is one …
Palmetto Women
Images from the Winthrop University Archives
Av Ron Chepesiuk, Gina Price White
Inbunden, 1999
314 kr
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Along the Catawba River
Images from the Winthrop University Archives
Av Ron Chepesiuk, Gina Price White m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
314 kr
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Gangsters of Miami
True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers from the Magic City
Inbunden, 2010
270 kr
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Gangsters of Harlem
The Gritty Underworld of New York''s Most Famous Neighborhood
Av Ron Chepesiuk, Ron Chepesiul
E-bok, 2007
170 kr
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For the first time in paperback, author Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the little known history of organized crime in Harlem. African American organized crime has had as significant an impact on its constituent community as Italian, Jewish, and Irish organized crime has had on theirs. Gangsters are every …
Black Gangsters of Chicago
E-bok, 2007
254 kr
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Less obvious than perhaps Al Capone, but perhaps even more vicious are the names of John Mushmouth Johnson, Jeff Fort and Larry Hoover from the Chicago underworld. Ron Chepesiuk reveals, for the first time, the stories of these African American gangsters who were every bit as powerful, intriguing …
Gangsters of Miami
True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers from the Magic City
E-bok, 2009
260 kr
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This book chronicles gang and gangster history using profiles to tell the rise of the gangster and history of crime in Miami. Known as the Magic City, the book traces gangsters that include the notorious smugglers of the Prohibition era, famous mobsters like Al Capone and Myer Lansky, the Cuban …
Crazy Charlie
Revolutionary or Neo Nazi
Häftad, 2016
206 kr
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Crazy Charlie, Carlo Lehder rose from a struggling, small-time pot dealer to become a major Godfather in the Medellin cartel, the crime syndicate largely responsible for initiating the cocaine epidemic plaguing American society since the late 1970s.
Notorious Kingpins
Volume 1 -- Amado Carrillo Fuentes & Raymond Chow
Häftad, 2017
219 kr
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This volume covers Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Khun Sa and Raymond Chow. All three of these men are among the most colourful gangsters of recent times. Arguably Mexicos biggest drug trafficker, Carrillo Fuentes was known as Lord of the Skies. In his time, he pioneered the use of jumbo jets for the mass …
Out Of Bounds
From Broken NBA Dreams to Redemption
Av Chris Washburn, Ron Chepesiuk
Inbunden, 2025
366 kr
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Out Of Bounds
From Broken NBA Dreams to Redemption
Av Chris Washburn, Ron Chepesiuk
Häftad, 2025
225 kr
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Scotch-Irish
From the North of Ireland to the Making of America
Häftad, 2005
232 kr
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The Scotch-Irish began emigrating to Northern Ireland from Scotland in the seventeenth century to form the Ulster Plantation. In the next century these Scottish Presbyterians migrated to the Western Hemisphere in search of a better life. Except for the English, the Scotch-Irish were the largest …
Black Caesar
Häftad, 2013
245 kr
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This is the remarkable story of Frank Matthews, a charismatic drug kingpin from the late 1960s and 1980s who organised a huge criminal enterprise before jumping bail and 1973 with $15 million and a beautiful woman. Nicknamed Black Caesar, Matthews has never been seen again in what has become one of …
