wyszukanych pozycji: 12
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To Serve and Collect : Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal, 1855-1960
ISBN: 9780809322237 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Crooked politicians, gangsters, madams, and cops on the take: To Serve and Collect tells the story of Chicago during its formative years through the history of its legendary police department.
Crooked politicians, gangsters, madams, and cops on the take: To Serve and Collect tells the story of Chicago during its formative years thr... |
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177,83 zł |
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Heartland Serial Killers
ISBN: 9780875804361 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lindberg, an accomplished local historian and true crime writer, presents a fascinating story of two contemporaneous serial killers, both weaving marriage and murder in and around Chicago during the 1890s and 1900s. Johann Hoch was a debonair bigamist and wife killer who boasted of having perfected a scientific technique to romance and seduction. Belle Gunness was a nesting Black Widow whose sprawling farm in Northwest Indiana was a fatal lure for lonely bachelors seeking the comforts of middle-age security by answering matrimonial advertisements placed by Gunness. Notorious in his own... Lindberg, an accomplished local historian and true crime writer, presents a fascinating story of two contemporaneous serial killers, both weaving m... |
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118,56 zł |
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Return Again to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago
ISBN: 9781630264154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Return again to the scene of the crime and visit the secret hideouts of Nazi saboteurs, anarchist plotters, charlatans, fakers, gangsters, and even a love-sick matron dubbed the "Torso Killer." See up close the murdering matrimonial bluebeard Johann Hoch and probe the unsolved mysteries surrounding the disappearance of candy heiress Helen Brach, the sinking of the "Christmas Tree Ship," and dozens of famous gangland "rubouts." This sequel to the best-selling Return to the Scene of the Crime is a provocative travel guide and road map pointing toward more dark and unexplored corners of the...
Return again to the scene of the crime and visit the secret hideouts of Nazi saboteurs, anarchist plotters, charlatans, fakers, gangsters, and even a ...
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184,08 zł |
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Chicago by Gaslight: A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920
ISBN: 9780897334211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft.
This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities...
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96,87 zł |
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Return Again to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago
ISBN: 9781581821673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Return again to the scene of the crime and visit the secret hideouts of Nazi saboteurs, anarchist plotters, charlatans, fakers, gangsters, and even a love-sick matron dubbed the "Torso Killer." See up close the murdering matrimonial bluebeard Johann Hoch and probe the unsolved mysteries surrounding the disappearance of candy heiress Helen Brach, the sinking of the "Christmas Tree Ship," and dozens of famous gangland "rubouts." This sequel to the best-selling Return to the Scene of the Crime is a provocative travel guide and road map pointing toward more dark and unexplored corners of the...
Return again to the scene of the crime and visit the secret hideouts of Nazi saboteurs, anarchist plotters, charlatans, fakers, gangsters, and even a ...
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134,94 zł |
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Whiskey Breakfast: My Swedish Family, My American Life
ISBN: 9780816646845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city's last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running along the north side of the city and the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a way station for a generation of working-class immigrants escaping the hardships of the old country for the promise of a brighter new day in a halfway house of sorts, perched between the old and new lands. For Richard C. Lindberg, whose Swedish immigrant parents and grandparents settled there, it was... Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city's last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running ... |
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102,49 zł |
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Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago
ISBN: 9781630264161 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Return to the Scene of the Crime: a Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago,"" by Richard Lindberg, is an uncensored neighborhood-by-neighborhood map to the back alleys and boulevards of Chicago where some of the most infamous events of the city's criminal past occurred. Capone, Dillinger, and other organized crime figures have left an indelible imprint on the Windy City.""
Return to the Scene of the Crime: a Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago,"" by Richard Lindberg, is an uncensored neighborhood-by-neighborhood map to t...
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163,60 zł |
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Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago
ISBN: 9781581820133 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Return to the Scene of the Crime: a Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago,"" by Richard Lindberg, is an uncensored neighborhood-by-neighborhood map to the back alleys and boulevards of Chicago where some of the most infamous events of the city's criminal past occurred. Capone, Dillinger, and other organized crime figures have left an indelible imprint on the Windy City.""
Return to the Scene of the Crime: a Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago,"" by Richard Lindberg, is an uncensored neighborhood-by-neighborhood map to t...
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85,80 zł |
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To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal
ISBN: 9780275934156 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this serious yet entertaining book, historian Richard Carl Lindberg probes unexplored avenues of Chicago history and presents the first in-depth history of the Chicago Police Department in over a century. The book traces the stormy history of the department from the 1850s to the Summerdale Scandal of the near present. Interspersed with the major chapters about the chaotic struggle between reform and the machine are short, intimate vignettes: the Armory Station, a gray, somber fortress that housed some of Chicago's most desperate characters for over thirty years; Francis O'Neill,... In this serious yet entertaining book, historian Richard Carl Lindberg probes unexplored avenues of Chicago history and presents the first in-depth... |
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377,79 zł |
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Tales of Forgotten Chicago
ISBN: 9780809337811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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145,45 zł |
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Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City
ISBN: 9780810896093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Chicago and its history are defined by such notorious crime figures as Al Capone and John Dillinger. Gangland Chicago vividly recounts the evolution of street gangs in Chicago before Capone and Dillinger, and the rise of organized crime that earned the Windy City a reputation for unchecked violence, lawlessness, and mayhem.
Chicago and its history are defined by such notorious crime figures as Al Capone and John Dillinger. Gangland Chicago vividly recounts the evolution o...
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188,90 zł |
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The Chicago White Sox
ISBN: 9780873388955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A facsimile reproduction of the 1952 history of the White Sox Warren Brown's team history of the Chicago White Sox originally appeared in 1952 as part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P. Putnam. With their colorful prose and delightful narratives, the Putnam books have been described as the Cadillac of team histories and have become prized collectibles for baseball readers and historians. In telling the story of the White Sox, Warren Brown recounts the almost incredible adventures of "the Hitless Wonders" who stole the pennant... A facsimile reproduction of the 1952 history of the White Sox Warren Brown's team history of the Chicago White Sox originally appea... |
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107,67 zł |