Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
By: John Oller
3.86
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful…
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By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
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7. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
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4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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8. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
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3.22
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4.13
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"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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13. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
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14. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
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3.45
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4.04
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20. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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3.56
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21. Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
By: John Oller
3.86
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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