From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality. Thomas Jefferson was the first former president to accomplish great things after the White House, shaping public debates and founding the University of Virginia, an accomplishment...

"Tan documentado como cautivador y fascinante, este libro aporta una nueva perspectiva sobre el crimen y la criminología. Muy documentado, lleno de fotografías e ilustraciones, es un verdadero documento histórico. Recomendado del librero. ¿Cómo se ganó Jack el Destripador su siniestro nombre? ¿Quién «vendió» la Torre Eiffel? ¿Cómo se llevó a cabo el atraco del Hatton Garden? Este libro responde estas y otras muchas preguntas mediante...

"It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to the murders of three Los Angeles women. Surprised she...

In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth. The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news. A young, highly intelligent man named Christian...

An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.

"On November 13, 2022, the blue-collar college town of Moscow, Idaho, awoke to the shocking new that four University of Idaho students had been murdered in an off-campus house. The killings--and the ensuing nationwide manhunt--shook the tight-knit community and dominated global headlines. While Idaho Slept brings these terrible crimes into focus, humanizes the young victims, and dissects the mind of the PhD criminology student charged with their murders....