Tough luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the rise of the modern NFL [First edition] 9780802129444, 9780802147110, 0802129447

Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL 0802129447, 9780802129444

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-yea

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A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc. 9781250204400, 1250204402

The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death

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Ruxton: The First Modern Murder 9781901514841, 1901514846

Two dismembered bodies discarded in the borderlands of Scotland, hideously mutilated to avoid identification. Forty-thre

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Murder, Inc.: The story of "The Syndicate" [First Thus ed.]

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Rhetoric, Inc.: Ford’s Filmmaking and the Rise of Corporatism 9780271088310

In 1914, the Ford Motor Company opened its Motion Picture Laboratory, an in-house operation that produced motion picture

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Collision of wills: Johnny Unitas, Don Shula, and the rise of the modern NFL 9781496206916, 9781496210388, 9781496210395, 9781496210401, 1496210387, 1496210409

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue; 1. A Legend Departs

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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire 0312680473, 9780312680473

In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity—from assembly-line executions to

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Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University [First edition.] 0195144570, 9780195144574, 9780195302813

Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the

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The First British Railway Murder

The murder in 1864 shocked the whole nation. On a busy London train on a humid summer’s evening, an elderly man, Thomas

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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle 9780691185842

The story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history On June 22, 1936, t

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